Tappy turns a knock on your Mac into an action. Record a rhythm, map it to an app, file, or link — then just tap to launch.
Tap any rhythm on your Mac — Tappy hears it through the mic and saves the pattern.
Point that knock at an app, a file, or a link. Add as many as you like.
Tappy listens quietly in the menu bar. Knock, and the thing opens. That's it.
Everything Tappy does, and nothing it doesn't.
Record any knock pattern — three taps or twenty. Your rhythm, your shortcut.
Map a knock to launch an app, open a file, or fire off a URL.
No account, no cloud, no network. Everything stays on your Mac.
Tune how hard you tap so it fires when you mean it — not when you don't.
Run as many knocks as you want. Clash detection keeps them from colliding.
Lives up top, launches at login, stays out of your way. Feels like macOS.
Free forever. No account, no license key.
A menu-bar app that recognises knock/tap rhythms on your Mac and launches an action — an app, a file, or a link — when it hears the right one.
Yes — Tappy listens for taps through the mic. Audio never leaves your Mac and nothing is recorded or stored.
Completely — everything runs on your machine and never phones home.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel. (To confirm against the build.)
Yes. Free download, no account, no license key, no subscription. Just grab the DMG and go.