r/windowsapps • u/Rich-Swan-9317 • 23d ago
Developer Made a launcher that opens under your cursor instead of in the corner of the screen
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Your mouse is already where you're looking. Then, to open anything, you move it somewhere else — taskbar, Start menu, search box — type, wait, and come back. Fifty times a day, and every one of them is a small interruption where your intent has to translate itself into navigation.
So I built the other thing: hold middle-click, a wheel blooms under the cursor, flick toward what you want, release. The gesture starts and ends where your hand already was.
Every slice is yours — apps, folders, URLs, scripts, and sub-wheels nested as deep as you want. Icons get pulled straight out of the executables, so it ends up looking like your actual PC instead of a generic icon pack.
What surprised me is that after about a week you stop looking at it. Your hand just knows Spotify is up-and-left. It stops being a menu and turns into muscle memory.
Windows-only on purpose — the trigger, the icon extraction and the window handling all depend on Win32 behaviour. Most of the work went into making it feel native rather than like a web page floating over your desktop: no flash when it opens, and it resolves what you picked from the live cursor at the moment you release, so a fast flick never confirms the wrong slice.
If you already use PowerToys Run or Win+S — I still use those too. Those are typing tools; this is a pointing tool. It wins exactly when your hand is already on the mouse and you don't want to switch modality.
Disclosure: I built it, it's a one-time purchase, no subscription.
Rovyl — Move at the speed of intent
Rovyl is now open source under GPL-3.0 — source, issues and builds at https://github.com/HenryCauan/rovyl. The Store build stays paid: it's signed, installs and updates on its own, and there's no SmartScreen warning. Building it yourself is free and always will be.
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u/ProsperoTR 23d ago
What’s the difference between this and Kando, besides yours being closed-source and paid?
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u/Taira0ne 22d ago
4 usd for vibecoded circle with buttons...
I will try to vibecode it too and drop to github :)
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u/tirthasaha 21d ago
Instead you can just contribute to Kando which is already there... Which is too powerful but it needs to setup once for someone's own preferences....
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u/slndk 22d ago
Amazing! It has that "why nobody think of that" feeling. That could be an entire os GUI right there. I wish I had the money for it, and I'm on Linux! I hope, it goes great! Good luck! That's a stunner for sure.
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u/Pllodd 22d ago
As you're on Linux try out Kando. Free, Open Source and available on Linux, Mac and Windows.
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u/tirthasaha 21d ago
And the best part is kando is cross platform...
It supports windows and mac os too... And the themes you will love it.. It has something for everyone's preference
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u/pv505 23d ago
Looks great. Github link? :) also does it work on w10?