AppMaka takes the sites you live in — Gmail, YouTube, Notion, your bank — and gives each one its own window, its own icon, and its own space on your PC. No browser tabs. No address bar. No clutter.
v0.16.2 · 9 MB · Windows 10/11 · Early build — the honest details
The real thing — my actual launcher, cosmic theme and all: 16 web apps, 81 programs, one Alt+Space away.
how it works
step 01
Paste any URL. AppMaka grabs the site's name and icon and files it in your library, right next to your regular programs.
step 02
The site opens in its own clean window — just the content, no browser wrapped around it. Re-opening focuses the same window instead of spawning copies.
step 03
Hit Alt+Space and the spotlight launcher appears over whatever you're doing. Type a few letters, hit Enter, done. Esc and it's gone.
why not just use browser tabs?
47 tabs, three Gmails fighting over one login, ads everywhere. AppMaka fixes the parts that actually annoy you.
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Work Gmail and personal Gmail, side by side, each signed in at the same time. Every account gets its own isolated storage — cookies never leak between them.
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Requests are checked against EasyList and EasyPrivacy — the same lists uBlock Origin uses — and blocked before they even download. No extension, no setup.
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New-window popups are blocked by default. When a site legitimately needs one — like a sign-in flow — a per-site allowlist lets it through in a contained window.
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Apps you're not looking at go to sleep instead of eating memory. Open a window, do your thing, forget about it — AppMaka cleans up after you.
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Alt+Space fuzzy-searches your web apps, your accounts, and your installed programs in one ranked list. Your whole PC, two keystrokes away.
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Closing a window tucks AppMaka into the system tray instead of killing it. Optional run-at-startup means it's just always there when you want it.
and under the hood
AppMaka kept growing the tools its creator actually wanted. All of this is in the same free app.
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Press the hotkey and talk — a local Whisper model turns it into text, on your machine. Nothing loads, listens, or phones home until you press it. Zero idle cost, nothing leaves your PC.
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Saved logins live in your OS credential vault (Windows Credential Manager) — never in AppMaka's own files. Filling is never automatic, and it flat-out refuses to fill on the wrong domain.
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Text and images you copy are kept in a local, newest-first history. That thing you copied twenty minutes ago? Still there.
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One hotkey opens your whole morning stack — the apps and programs you start the day with — arranged cascade, side-by-side, or tabbed.
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Your app windows can live together in one tabbed frame instead of scattered all over the taskbar.
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Custom launcher wallpaper — the cosmic one up top is really how it runs — plus custom cursor styles and colors, even a rainbow trail. Your launcher should look like yours.
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straight talk
AppMaka is v0.16.2 — a real, working app that one person built with an AI assistant (Muse) and uses every day, but it's young. The latest release fixed the app icon not showing in Windows and made the tab-strip X close the whole window, and a general smoothness pass is in progress. The little things matter, and they're getting fixed in the open.
What will never change: it's free, there's no account, no tracking, no telemetry, and the full source is public. Good tools shouldn't have paywalls — so this one doesn't.
Windows 10/11 · v0.16.2 · Release notes
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