Sol

Sol is an open source app launcher, focused on ease of use and speed. It has minimal configuration and runs natively.

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Download

Install via brew

brew install --cask sol

Or manually download the latest release.

Discord

Join the Discord

https://discord.gg/W9XmqCQCKP

Features

• App search
• Custom shortcuts
• Google translate
• Calendar
• Show upcoming appointement in Menu Bar
• Custom AppleScript commands
• Custom links
• Imports browser bookmarks
• Window Manager
• Emoji picker with emoji through Emoji 17.0, macOS compatibility filtering, and a preferred skin tone
• Clipboard manager
• Notes Scratchpad
• Retrieve Wi-Fi password
• Show IP address
• Start a google meet
• Switch OS theme
• Process killer
• Generate NanoID
• Generate UUID
• Generate lorem ipsum
• Format and paste JSON
• Forward media keys to Spotify/Apple Music
• Blacken Menu Bar
• Quickly evaluate math operations
• Script Runner
• Symbolic Link Support

Emoji compatibility

Sol keeps its macOS 14.0 minimum and shows only emoji supported by the installed macOS version. Newer entries carry a minimum macOS version in the bundled catalog:

Emoji additions	Minimum macOS
Through Emoji 15.0	14.0 (Sol's minimum)
Emoji 15.1	14.4
Emoji 16.0	15.4
Emoji 17.0	26.4

Version checks compare numeric components and accept later releases automatically; no annual compatibility update is required for existing entries. Unsupported emoji are excluded from browsing, search, and the seven-entry favorites row, but their saved usage counts are retained. When those emoji become supported after an OS upgrade, they participate in the normal top-seven favorites ranking.

Preferred skin tone

Set the preferred skin tone under Settings → General → Emoji Skin Tone. Choose default yellow or one of five skin tones; the preference is saved as emojiSkinTone in ~/.config/sol/config.json.

Browsing, search, favorites, and insertion use the selected tone wherever Unicode defines a matching variant. Emoji without tone variants remain unchanged. Changing the preference preserves favorites and usage counts, which remain associated with the original default emoji. For multi-person emoji, the global preference applies the same tone to everyone where Unicode defines that variant; mixed tones and one-off overrides are not included.

Tone variants follow their own minimum macOS version, which can be newer than the default emoji. For example, bunny-ear and wrestling emoji gained tones in Emoji 17.0 and require macOS 26.4 for those variants. When the preferred variant is unsupported, Sol keeps the supported default emoji available.

Contributing

You need to set up your machine for macOS development with React Native. Basically you need to install:

• Mise (https://mise.jdx.dev/)
• Xcode
• Cocoapods

Follow any of the online tutorials to set up your machine for iOS/MacOS React Native development.

Once you have everything installed run the following commands

mise plugin add cocoapods
# To enable hooks
mise settings experimental=true
# Will install all bun, ruby and run the installation of dependencies
mise install

# You can then run the app with
bun macos

License

MIT License