Type
One click on the menu bar icon opens the panel. As you type it shows the exact folder that is about to exist — and a name macOS will not accept says so before Return does anything.
You point Runway at the folder your work lives in — ~/Developer, ~/Code, a client directory, wherever it is — and every project it creates lands directly inside. Nothing gets scattered across the disk, and nothing ends up in Downloads because that is where the save dialog happened to open.
That is the entire app. No project list to maintain, no template gallery to scroll through, no window sitting in your way — a new project folder costs one keystroke more than deciding what to call it.
Screenshots
Three steps
Pick the editor
The switch under the name field carries both editors' own icons. ⌘1 and ⌘2 pick one directly, ⌘E flips between them, and Runway starts on whichever you used last.
Return
The folder is created inside your projects folder and the editor opens on it. If the folder is already there, the button changes to Open and Return opens it instead of refusing.
Features
- A new project folder from the menu bar, in one keystroke
- Opens it in Xcode or Visual Studio Code, chosen on a switch
- One projects folder, set once, everything lands inside it
- Optional Swift package scaffold, so Xcode has something to build
- Optional README.md with the project name
- Live path preview and name checking before anything is created
- A folder that already exists opens instead of erroring
- ⌘1 / ⌘2 / ⌘E for the editor, Return to go, Escape to close
- Hands new projects to Hangar
- Launch at login
- English and German
At a glance
- Platform
- macOS 14.0 or later
- Price
- Free, no in-app purchases
- Languages
- English, German
- Data
- No account, no data collection
Works with Hangar
Hangar is our menu bar project launcher: a list of the folders you work in and the editor each one opens in. Switch the handover on, and every project Runway creates is offered to Hangar right after the editor comes up — so today's new folder is in tomorrow's list.
See HangarPrivacy
Runway collects nothing. There is no account, no subscription and no background service — just a menu bar icon, a text field and a switch.
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