Command palette
One launcher for apps, files, actions and search. Fuzzy-matched, keyboard-first, instant.
Every tool, one overlay away.
Overly floats above whatever you're doing — launch apps, run commands, search anything and let AI act, without ever breaking your flow.
v1.0.4|macOS 13+|Install via brew install overly
summarize my open tabsAI
Suggestions
- Ask Overly AIAI Command⏎
- Browser TabsExtension
- Search FilesCommand
- Clipboard HistoryCommand
- Create SnippetCommand
Overly Actions ⌘K
Press ⌥ Space anywhere to summon Overly.
Everything in one place
The command line for the rest of your day.
Overly bundles the tools you reach for constantly into a single overlay — so you stop alt-tabbing and start flowing.
Overly AI
Ask in plain language and let Overly act — draft, summarize, translate, or chain multi-step tasks.
Extensions
Thousands of community tools, one keystroke away. Install without ever leaving the overlay.
Clipboard history
Everything you copy, searchable and synced. Paste from days ago as if it were seconds.
Snippets
Expand short keywords into full text anywhere. Templates, signatures, boilerplate — instant.
Window management
Tile, resize and arrange windows with a keystroke. Your layout, exactly how you like it.
Go ahead — type something.
Store
Whatever you need, it plugs in.
Drive your favorite tools without ever switching to them. Built by a community that lives in the keyboard.
Notion
Search and create pages without opening a tab.
Todoist
Check tasks and capture new ones in a keystroke.
Browser Tabs
Jump to any open tab across every window.
Web Search
Query the web straight from the overlay.
Calendar
See what is next and join calls instantly.
Timers
Stopwatches and countdowns in the menu bar.
Slack
Set presence and scan unreads without switching.
Zoom
Hop into your next meeting with one key.
Plus thousands more…
Browse the store Overly AI
Ask, and Overly acts.
The overlay understands what you mean and does the work — no context switch, no copy and paste. Bring your own model or use ours.
- Summarize a page, thread, or doc
- Draft replies in your voice
- Translate between 40+ languages
- Run multi-step actions across apps
40+
Languages
2M+
AI actions / day
<50ms
To first token
12k+
Extensions
Wall of love
The tool your fastest coworker uses.
Loved by people who measure their day in keystrokes.
“Overly is slowly turning my desktop into an AI-native operating system, and I am here for it.”
“The clipboard history alone pays for itself. Everything else is a bonus.”
Personas are illustrative placeholders.
Automation
Don't repeat yourself.
The things you do twenty times a day should take zero effort. Automate them once, forget them forever.
Snippets
Addresses, sign-offs, boilerplate — save them once, recall them with a keyword.
Message
Send
Quicklinks
Stop hunting through tabs. Jump to any page, folder or app from anywhere.
⌥+⌘+L
→ opens your dashboard
Hotkeys & aliases
Give your most-used commands a shortcut or a two-letter alias. Muscle memory does the rest.
- Open Figma⌥F
- Clipboard History⌥V
- Ask Overly AI⌥A
And there's more
take notes. find any file. run scripts. arrange windows. translate on the fly. convert units. answer questions. expand text. open anything. fill passwords. remind you of stuff. schedule your day And much, much more.
Overly Notes
Catch a thought mid-task without breaking focus — jot it down and get back to work.
Community
Good company for keyboard people.
See how others squeeze the most out of Overly — and show off your own setup.
Discord
24k membersEarly looks at what's shipping next, plus setups worth stealing from other members.
JoinX / Twitter
58k followersReleases, tips and the occasional teaser — straight from the team as it ships.
FollowVideo
Ten Overly tricks you probably missed
Blog
Mastering Quicklinks from day one
Video
A power user rebuilds their setup live
Blog
How the emoji picker got so fast
Video
Settings you should change first
Blog
Automating your morning with AI commands
Video
From newbie to keyboard-only in a week
Blog
Our favorite extensions for UI developers
Video
Ten Overly tricks you probably missed
Blog
Mastering Quicklinks from day one
Video
A power user rebuilds their setup live
Blog
How the emoji picker got so fast
Video
Settings you should change first
Blog
Automating your morning with AI commands
Video
From newbie to keyboard-only in a week
Blog
Our favorite extensions for UI developers
Head to our YouTube channel for features you didn't know you had.
Developers
Build the tool you wish existed.
If you can build a web app, you can build an Overly extension. The API is small, typed and genuinely fun.
Read the docsextension.tsx
import { List, Action } from '@overly/api'
export default function Command() {
return (
<List searchBarPlaceholder="Search projects…">
<List.Item
title="overly_landing"
actions={<Action.Open target="vscode://…" />}
/>
</List>
)
}React on the desktop
Write native-feeling extensions with the stack you already know: React, TypeScript and Node.
UI out of the box
A component library handles the pixels so you can spend your time on the logic.
Typed end to end
A strongly typed API with hot reloading and tooling that stays out of your way.
Ship to the Store
Publish your extension and put it one keystroke away from thousands of users.
The fastest path to done.
Free to download. Runs quietly in the background until you need it. Then it's the fastest thing on your machine.
v1.0.4|macOS 13+ · Windows 11|Free forever