About
TopStart pins your favorite Apple Shortcuts to the menu bar so you can run any of them with a click or a hotkey, without opening the Shortcuts app. It has no dock icon, and a Spotlight-style palette (default ⌥⌘T) lets you type to filter your shortcuts and launch them with the keyboard. You can also give any pinned shortcut its own hotkey, organize shortcuts into groups such as Work and Personal, start TopStart at login, and run your whole pinned set in two-second steps.
TopStart is a one-time $4.99 purchase for macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon, and it requires the free Shortcuts app built into macOS. A free trial gives you every feature for 7 days; after that, a license key emailed on purchase unlocks it permanently and includes future updates. Your shortcuts and settings stay on your Mac, with no account, analytics, or data collection. The only network request is a one-time license check when you activate your key.
TopStart is a small, independent utility, not affiliated with Apple. Its developer, Cliff Wade, built it for everyday use of Shortcuts from the menu bar.