Vela

Make your Mac
answer to you.

Vela is a native control surface for your Mac: launch what matters, keep what you copied, move your windows, and make every shortcut yours.

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Free · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon · Apple-notarized release

Vela
open work
↵Open workspaceCommand
⌘VClipboard historyRecent
⌥⇥Switch applicationWindow

One place for the things you reach for every day.

Vela stays native and out of the way until you call it. There is no settings labyrinth to learn.

01

Find and run

Open apps, invoke your own commands, and move through your work without breaking stride.

02

Remember context

Search clipboard history, expand snippets, and select useful text directly from the screen.

03

Put windows where they belong

Snap, maximize, minimize, and move windows between displays with a keystroke.

Configured in a file you can keep.

Your Vela lives in normal JavaScript. Put it in Git, share it, or ask an agent to help refine it. The app validates your configuration before it adopts it.

Start with vela init; it writes vela.js plus local instructions and a skill for your AI before configuration begins.

// ~/.config/vela/vela.js
Vela.configure({
  clipboard: { limit: 200 },
});

Vela.hotkey("command+shift+space",
  Vela.showLauncher);
Vela.hotkey("option+tab",
  Vela.showSwitcher);
Vela.hotkey("command+option+left",
  () => Vela.window("leftHalf"));

Vela.command({
  id: "open-workspace",
  title: "Open workspace",
  run: () => Vela.shell("open ~/workspace"),
});

Your control surface should not become someone else’s data surface.

No account. No telemetry.Vela does not require a sign-up, and it does not include analytics or advertising SDKs.

Private by design.Configuration remains on your Mac. Context snippets use Apple’s on-device model only; secure text fields are excluded.

Set the shortcut.
Make it yours.

Download DMG