Radial

Radial is a native macOS radial (pie) menu that puts launchable apps, shortcuts, text snippets, scripts, and chained multi-step workflows at your cursor with a single gesture.

What is Radial?

Radial is a native macOS utility from Danish indie studio AppVerge that replaces keyboard-hunting with a radial (pie) menu that opens at your cursor on a single hotkey. Instead of remembering which app is where or which shortcut triggers what, you press your hotkey, pick a slice, and the action runs — and because menus are context-aware, Finder shows file actions while Photoshop shows design shortcuts. What separates Radial from lighter pie menus is the automation layer: a visual macro editor chains multiple actions into a single gesture (open a project folder, launch VS Code, start the dev server, open localhost all at once), text snippets with dynamic variables cover canned replies and code templates, and a built-in AI assistant writes AppleScript and shell scripts from a plain-language prompt. There's also a community preset store where you can install or publish complete per-app menus with one click. It's sold as a one-time €19.99 license covering up to 5 Macs with free updates forever, after a 7-day full-access trial. The pitch is productivity-power-user: developers, creators, and macOS enthusiasts who repeat the same desktop actions dozens of times a day and want everything a gesture away.

Key Features

• Cursor-Based Radial Menu — press a hotkey and a circular menu appears exactly at your cursor; pick a slice and the action fires without switching context
• App Launcher — launch any app from the pie instead of hunting the Dock or Spotlight; also jump to files, folders, and URLs
• App Switcher — a pie-style alternative to Command+Tab with live window previews so you land on the right window instead of cycling blind
• Multi-Step Workflow Chaining — stack actions like open folder, launch app, run script, and open URL into a single sequential macro
• AI Script Assistant — describe a task in plain English and Radial generates the AppleScript or shell command for you
• Text Snippets — save canned replies, code templates, addresses, and signatures with dynamic variables, then insert them with one click
• Context-Aware Menus — different radial menus appear automatically depending on the focused app, so shortcuts stay relevant
• Sub-Menus — group related actions under a single slice to keep menus clean as your setup grows
• Community Presets — one-click install of ready-made menus for Finder, VS Code, Photoshop, Chrome, and more, plus the ability to publish your own

Who is it for?

• Developers and creators who run the same build, git, or export routines every day and want them one gesture away
• macOS power users who never memorized keyboard shortcuts and prefer visual menus
• People who already like pie-menu tools like Pieoneer and want more than just shortcut-triggering
• Non-technical users who want automations but can't write scripts — the AI assistant writes them from plain language
• Tidy-workflow people who want per-app menus and sub-menus rather than one sprawling global launcher
• Anyone comfortable paying once (€19.99) and running macOS 15+ who wants a trial-before-buying tool

Who is it NOT for?

• Anyone on macOS 14 or older — the app hard-requires macOS 15 Sequoia, and Intel Macs are increasingly marginal
• Keyboard Maestro veterans who already have their automation setup — Radial won't replace that complexity
• People who want an instant out-of-the-box win without investing time building menus and workflows
• Enterprise buyers or anyone needing managed deployment, admin controls, or vendor support SLAs
• Users who need Windows/Linux or a companion mobile app — Radial is macOS-only