# 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, which is why a keystroke is answered in milliseconds.

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, clipboard sync across that person's own Macs, 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 it uses the network for
Updates arrive from updates.belstone.com, exchange rates refresh every twelve hours so currency
answers are right, signing in against account.epiphani.com carries Pro to every Mac in use, and
clipboard sync carries clips between a person's own Macs once they switch it on.
Clipboard sync is off by default, carries text only, and is sealed with a key generated on the
first Mac and kept in that Mac's keychain: the account stores a blob it cannot read.
Searching itself is answered from the index in memory, which is where the speed comes from.

## 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.