Everything a Keystroke AwayFree+Pro

One box for your whole Mac

The switcher's search box is a full command bar. Jump to any window or browser tab, launch apps, search the web, do math, ask AI, and find files by name or by meaning, all without leaving the keyboard or the Space you're in.

Part free, part Pro. See the split
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How it works

There's no new shortcut to learn. The command bar lives inside the window switcher you already open dozens of times a day.

1

Open the switcher and type

Press Cmd+Tab and start typing. The window list becomes one unified result list: windows, browser tabs, apps, Spaces, and everything below, ranked together by how well they match.

2

The best match rises to the top

Scopo uses Quicksilver-grade abbreviation matching: word boundaries and exact runs beat scattered letters, and things you can switch to (windows, open tabs) rank above things that would open something new.

3

Enter runs the default action

Focus the window, jump to the tab, open the app, copy the result. Every result kind has a sensible default, so most of the time it's type-Enter-done.

4

Tab opens the action pane

Every result has more actions behind Tab: close a window, quit an app, copy a URL, move a window to another Space. Some actions ask for a second pick, like "Open With…" sliding in a third pane to choose the app. Esc always steps back one level.

Everything you can type

One rule decides the tier: finding something that exists and going to it is free. Creating, storing, automating, and AI are Pro.

Find & go

Free

The free core of the command bar: find something that already exists and go to it.

Windows

invoice

Every window across your Spaces, ranked by match. Selecting a window on another Space switches you there and focuses it.

Browser tabs

github pull

Open tabs from Safari and the whole Chromium family (Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Arc). Enter jumps to the exact tab: Space, window, and tab in one hop. Firefox bookmarks are searchable, but Firefox offers no tab-scripting API, so live Firefox tabs aren't.

Apps

figma

Launch or switch to any installed app. The action pane adds New Window, Hide, Quit, and Reveal in Finder.

Spaces

blue fox

Type a Space's name to jump to it, or press Tab to pick a specific window on that Space.

Bookmarks

docs api

Bookmarks from Chrome-family browsers, Safari, and Firefox, parsed locally from disk. If a bookmarked page is already open as a tab, the tab wins, since jumping beats opening a duplicate.

Instant answers

Free

Type a question shaped like math and the answer is the result. Enter copies it.

Calculator

(1290*4)/3

Bare math expressions or an explicit = prefix.

Unit conversion

10km in mi

Length, mass, temperature, speed, volume, area, storage (including KiB/MiB/GiB), and durations.

Currency conversion

100 usd in eur

Daily exchange rates from the European Central Bank, cached locally and used offline when stale.

Date math

today + 3 weeks

Natural-language dates: "2 weeks from now", "30 days ago", "days until dec 25".

The web, your way

Free

A trailing "Search the web" row catches anything that isn't a match, and bangs route a query straight to the engine you mean.

Your default engine

Pick Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, YouTube, GitHub, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, or Apple Maps as the default in Settings → Launcher.

Search bangs

yt lofi beats

First-token shortcuts: g, ddg, bing, yt, gh, wiki, so, maps. "gh fuzzy matcher" searches GitHub directly.

Amazon search

az usb-c hub

Amazon is a first-class engine, localized to your regional marketplace. On supported marketplaces results carry our affiliate tag. It costs you nothing and helps keep the lights on at Scopo.

URLs & email

scopo.app

Anything URL-shaped opens in your browser; an email address becomes a mailto row.

System control

Free

The Mac's own switches, one query away.

System commands

dark mode

Lock Screen, Sleep, Screen Saver, Empty Trash, Toggle Dark Mode, Mute, Keep Mac Awake, Restart, Shut Down, and Log Out, all ranked like apps with keyword aliases.

Live volume & brightness

volume

The Set Volume and Set Brightness rows show the current level; with the row selected, ← and → adjust in 5% steps, live.

Settings deep links

wifi

Jump straight into the right System Settings pane: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Displays, Sound, Notifications, Privacy & Security, and more.

Paste as Plain Text

Strips formatting, pastes, then restores your clipboard exactly as it was.

Emoji

rocket

Type a feeling, get the emoji; Enter copies, or paste directly. Shift+Tab opens a full picker grid with recents, and you can tag emoji with your own keywords.

Files

Pro

File search that knows its place: quiet by default so files never drown your windows, generous when you ask, and it searches by meaning, not just by name.

Quiet file results

igor resume

Unprefixed queries only surface files whose names match with high confidence. Word-wise matching means "igor resume" finds Igor_Resume.pdf.

The f: prefix

f: report

Explicitly search files and get the full result set.

Search by meaning

how do we handle refunds

File search understands what documents are about, not just what they're called. Describe what you need and the closest notes, PDFs, and docs surface, even when they share no words with your query. Powered by on-device semantic understanding: nothing ever leaves your Mac.

Path browsing

~/Projects/

Type a path and browse it inline: Tab drills into folders, typing filters the level, Enter opens. Real Finder icons included.

Open With…

The action pane on any file offers Open, Reveal in Finder, Copy Path, and Open With… a specific app.

Ask AI

Pro

Hand any prompt to your AI of choice without hunting for its tab first.

Ask your default provider

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An "Ask AI" row trails every plain-text query, opening your default provider with the prompt pre-filled. Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, Copilot, and Le Chat are built in, and you can add your own.

Provider bangs

claude refactor this

Type claude, gpt, pplx, grok, copilot, or mistral to route a prompt straight to one provider. Custom providers get their own keywords.

Ask All Providers

One action opens the same prompt in every configured provider at once. Instant side-by-side second opinions.

Saved prompts

sum <paste>

Reusable prompt templates with their own keywords: type the keyword plus your text and the full prompt is assembled for you.

Long prompts handled

Paste a wall of text and Scopo handles the handoff: prompts too long for a URL are copied and auto-pasted into the provider's composer for you.

Text tools

Pro

Snippets, clipboard, and notes, searchable and one Enter away from wherever you're typing.

Snippets

addr

Saved text fragments with names and keywords. Enter pastes straight into the app you were in.

Clipboard history

clipboard history

Opt-in and off by default. When enabled, entries are searchable and browsable in a two-pane panel. History is stored encrypted with a key that never leaves your Mac's Keychain, password managers are blocklisted from capture, and Clear History deletes everything instantly.

Notes

note call bank tomorrow

An inline note pad: jot something down, pick which Space's shelf it belongs to, and it lands there as a chip.

Shelf, workspaces & power tools

Pro

The command bar is also the fastest door into Scopo's other Pro surfaces.

Shelf everything

shelf https://…

The shelf bang stages any text, URL, or file path onto a Space's shelf. Every copy-able result also offers "Shelf It" in its action pane.

Saved workspaces

save workspace

Snapshot the current Space's tiling layout, tabbed groups included, as a named workspace. Search it by name later and re-apply it any time.

Quick Links

jira PROJ-123

Your own named URLs and paths, with a {query} placeholder for parameterized links.

Apple Shortcuts

Your Shortcuts appear as runnable rows. Run them, or jump to editing them in the Shortcuts app.

Media downloader

Paste a video URL and download its video or audio to ~/Downloads, with live progress on the shelf and a Downloads window with history, logs, and retry. Format picking unlocks with ffmpeg installed.

The keyboard model

Four keys drive everything. Once they're in your fingers, every capability above works the same way.

EnterRun the selected result's default action
TabOpen the action pane, or drill into a folder
Shift+TabAlways the action pane (and the emoji picker on emoji rows)
EscStep back one pane; on the results list, clear, then close
↑ ↓Move through results or pane entries
← →Adjust live rows like Set Volume in 5% steps
w:Search only windows, with no command-bar rows

Private by design

Everything the command bar searches (windows, tabs, bookmarks, files, snippets) is indexed locally on your Mac. There's no cloud index and no telemetry on what you type. Even semantic file search runs on Apple's on-device models: your queries and your documents never leave your Mac. Clipboard history is off until you turn it on, encrypted at rest with a key stored in your Keychain, and skips password managers entirely.

Permissions follow the same philosophy: Scopo asks for access when you first use a feature that needs it, not during onboarding. Settings → Permissions shows the live status of every grant with a direct link to fix each one.

Tips & tricks

Pin to top

Tab into any app, command, link, or snippet and choose "Pin to Top". It will outrank everything for the queries it matches.

Permissions, only when asked

Tab search needs macOS Automation consent per browser. Scopo never prompts out of the blue: an "Enable tab search" row appears in the results, and nothing happens until you choose it.

Everything has an action pane

When in doubt, press Tab. Every row carries its full action list behind one keystroke.

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