Every shortcut,
one gesture away.
Circa is a radial menu for macOS. Open, point and click, the action fires — an app, a shortcut, a script, a snippet.
Features
Compose every menu, slot by slot.
Each slot does one thing. Pick from fourteen kinds — apps and shortcuts, scripts and snippets, live labels and nested menus.
Launch or Run.
Apps, system actions, scripts, snippets — one click fires any of them.
Groups.
Bundle slots into a group. Clicking opens the next menu.
Manage Audio.
Play, pause, skip — and a slot specifically for the volume.
Appearance.
Change app appearance to your preference.
Per app menus.
Bind app functionality to slots, run commands and more.
Tap or hold.
Two ways in — tap to latch the menu open, or hold and release to fire in one motion.
Tap
Profiles
One menu, up to 6 profiles.
Save a whole menu as a profile — slots, look, hotkey, per-app overrides.
The science
Why Circa beats
a list.
- 1988CHI · ACM
Faster in the lab
The first head-to-head trial put radial menus 15–20% ahead of a linear list — on the very first try, before anyone had practiced.
— Callahan, Hopkins, Weiser, Shneiderman
- 1993CHI · ACM
Faster once the hand learns it
Once the gesture moves into muscle memory, the same task ran another 3.5× faster. Every selection rehearses the next one.
— Kurtenbach & Buxton
- 1954J. Exp. Psychology
Optimal geometry by law
Targets equidistant from the cursor and unbounded in angular width satisfy Fitts’s law in its strongest form. The menu isn’t a style — it’s the shape pointing wants.
— Paul M. Fitts
- 1993UIST · ACM
Six is the cap
Past 6 slots the targets shrink and accuracy collapses. Every pie-menu study lands near this number. Nest a Group when you need more.
— Kurtenbach — follow-up tasks
Buy it once.
Yours.
One license, up to 3 Macs, every future update. No subscription, no account, no telemetry — pay once and you’re done.
€9.99
- Macs3
- Updateslifetime
- Accountnone
- Refund window14 days