Coming to the Mac App Store

Launchpad is gone.
Your shortcuts stay put.

TilesDeck keeps the apps, files and folders you actually open in decks that sit on your desktop. One for everyday, one for the project you are on, one for a client. No typing, no digging, no window to close afterwards.

A Mac desktop carrying four TilesDeck decks: a labelled Focus deck of six apps, a compact deck of four app icons, a project deck holding Freeform, Xcode and a folder named App idea, and a red deck of four media apps.

One deck per part of your day

Name one, fill it, leave it.

Applications, files and folders sit side by side in the same deck. Drag them in from Finder or pick them with the native macOS panel, and each deck keeps its own title, colour, tile size, spacing, position and screen across every restart.

A deck titled Focus holding Calendar, Calculator, Mail, Messages, Notes and Safari, as two rows of three labelled tiles. — Item names are per deck: always visible, or only while you hover.

A narrow vertical deck holding Freeform, Xcode and a folder named App idea. — The apps and the folder they work on, in one place.

A deep red vertical deck of four media apps, without labels. — Nine colour presets, no tint at all, or any colour you pick.

A wide deck of eight app icons in two rows of four, without labels. — Tiles from 44 to 220 pt, spacing from touching to a 120 pt gap.

Appearance

Every deck, yours.

The appearance panel opens from the deck itself, and everything in it is live: you move a slider and the deck on your desktop changes while you watch, not after you confirm.

The TilesDeck appearance panel: a deck colour menu set to None with a blue custom colour beside it, a Classic or Liquid Glass style switch, a Top or Center alignment switch, and sliders for glass strength at 100 percent, item spacing at 11 pt, and item size at 60 by 64 pt.

Colour Nine presets, no tint at all, or any colour from the native macOS picker. It travels with the deck when you export it.
StyleClassic, or native Liquid Glass on macOS 26 and later, with a continuous strength from a hint to the full effect. Earlier systems stay on Classic rather than imitating it.
ContentTop-aligned or centred, per deck, on the desktop deck and on its live preview in Settings at the same time.
Size and spacingTiles from a dense 44 by 48 pt to an oversized 220 by 210 pt, and spacing from touching to a 120 pt gap. Both continuous, not three presets.
Titles and namesThe deck title and the item names each have their own visibility: always there, or only while the pointer is over the deck.
Where it livesFloat it above other windows, bind it to one physical display so it waits while that screen is unplugged, and choose whether it shows on every macOS desktop or only the current one.

Reachable

Big, fixed, labelled targets.

A deck of large targets that never move is an accessibility feature before it is a convenience, so the parts that make it usable are not extras.

VoiceOver says what a tile is

Every tile carries a label naming the item and its kind, and it stays when you hide the visible names. Turning labels off for a cleaner deck does not make the deck silent.

Reduce Motion is honoured

The hover magnification is an animation, so the system setting switches it off. The deck still responds; it simply stops moving.

Targets you can actually hit

Tiles go up to 220 by 210 pt with up to 120 pt between them, far larger than a Dock icon, and a deck never shrinks below 160 by 64 pt.

Your language, in full

English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese and Simplified Chinese, across menus, Settings, the tutorial, dialogs, and the accessibility labels themselves.

Privacy

There is no account, and nothing to collect.

The reason this page has no "sign up" button is that the app has nowhere to send you.

No sign-in, no analytics

Version 1.0 has no account, no advertising, no crash upload and no product analytics. There is no Appro server for it to talk to.

Your shortcuts stay local

A deck holds macOS security-scoped bookmarks and preferences, on your Mac. The app never reads what is inside the things you point it at.

One network call, and it is Apple's

The Mac App Store build talks to StoreKit, for the unlock and nothing else. No card number and no billing address ever reaches us.

Price

Four decks free. Then once, and never again.

FreeUp to four decks

Everything the app does, on four decks. No trial clock, no reminder, no feature held back for later.

Apps, files and folders in one deck
Every appearance control
Export and import a deck
Launch at login, off until you ask

0,99 €Once, for more decks

A single purchase that lifts the four-deck limit. It belongs to your Apple Account, so Restore brings it back on your next Mac.

Create decks beyond the first four
Up to the app's 32-deck safety cap
No subscription, ever
Existing decks keep working either way

macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon and Intel. TilesDeck is being submitted to the Mac App Store, and the download button appears here once it is approved.

Launchpad is gone. Your shortcuts stay put.