JUST ZEN
A small, quiet launcher for Mac

Everything you use.
One flick away.

Just Zen is a panel on the edge of your screen and one key for everything else. Click Gmail and it opens in your browser — in the tab you already had open. Click Excel and the spreadsheet opens in Excel. Nothing moves house.

Download for Mac Download for Windows Free and open source · Apple Silicon · Windows 10 and 11
The panel

The eight things you actually flick between.

Pin apps, web apps, groups of either, even a spreadsheet you are living in this week. It floats above everything, on every Space, and gets out of the way. Drag icons to reorder them, drag one onto another to make a group, and drop a file on Excel to open it there.

Excelapp
Claudeclaude://
Google Chatchat.google.com
Workgroup of 4
Dropped here, opened there.
⌥Space

Two letters, from anywhere.

One field over everything the machine holds: your applications, your documents (Spotlight finds them, nothing to index), the web-app library, the sites you have added yourself, and the tabs already open in Safari or Chrome. Enter goes there. ⌘Enter puts it on the panel.

budget
Latest Budget.xlsxExcel · Proton Drive
Budget reviewTeams
Q4 budget threadopen tab · Safari
Budget v3Claude
Your browser, not ours

It opens the tab you already had open.

Web apps go to Safari or Chrome — whichever your Mac opens links with — and Just Zen looks for the tab that already has that site before it makes another. Your profiles, extensions, passwords and sessions stay exactly where they are. Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and Slack open through their own links, so you land inside the app.

Google ChatInboxCalendar+
Clicked Google Chat → switched to this tab, in your work profile.
Why a launcher and not another browser?

Because you already have a browser. And apps. And windows.

Nothing moves house

No new place to sign in, no second set of tabs, no copy of your working life kept somewhere else. Just a faster way to the things you already have.

It weighs almost nothing

A small panel and a key. No embedded browser running in the background, no pages kept warm, no memory quietly eaten while you work.

One thing, well

No chat, no notes, no tasks, no second inbox. Just the shortest path to the apps, files and sites you already use.

Nothing leaves your machine

No account, no sync, no telemetry. Settings in the Keychain. Open source, so you can check.

Less hunting. Less switching. Less app.

Download it, pin six things, and press ⌥Space when you need anything else.

macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon · Windows 10 and 11 · Everything it does · How it is built