# Jump Valet

> A keyboard launcher for macOS. Press a key, type a few letters, open an application, a folder,
> or a command you wrote. It keeps its own index in memory and makes no network request to search.

Maker: Epiphani Studios. Platform: macOS 26 or later, Apple silicon and Intel.
Distribution: direct download, signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
Not on the Mac App Store, because commands run shell and AppleScript and that sandbox does not
permit it.

## Price
- Free: every application and folder, arithmetic and unit and currency answers, ten commands,
  two skins. No account, no time limit.
- Pro, $39 once, one Mac: unlimited commands, Alfred workflow import, a hotkey per command,
  clipboard history, all five skins.
- Household, $59 once, five Macs in one home.
- Bought once, not rented. Major versions are priced separately when they arrive.
- Nothing charges anyone yet: the prices are published and the checkout is not open.

## Measured performance
- 3.03 ms median to rank an application query, across 116,211 indexed items and 253 applications,
  on a MacBook Air (M5), measured 2026-09-09.
- 5.66 ms median for a folder and file query on the same index.
- 3.35 ms median for an arithmetic or unit answer. It was 36.40 ms until the expression parser was
  rewritten, which is why every number here carries its date.
- Verify: run `launcherapp --bench <query>` from inside the installed app bundle.

## What reaches the network
Searching makes no network request. Three things do: the update check against
updates.belstone.com, an exchange-rate fetch every twelve hours for currency answers, and account
sign-in against account.epiphani.com if Pro is bought. The index, the folder names and everything
typed into the panel stay on the Mac.

## Data the person owns
Commands are one JSON file at ~/Library/Application Support/Jump Valet/commands.json. It can be
relocated to Dropbox or a git repository from Settings, read in any editor, and copied away.

## Pages
- https://jumpvalet.com/ : what it is, what it costs, how it compares.
- https://jumpvalet.com/capabilities : every capability, its mechanism, and how to verify it.

Last updated: 2026-09-09.