Windows 10 & 11 · lives in the tray
Hold a chord — or a mouse button — and a wheel opens where you're pointing: the apps you curate, their live windows, whatever's playing, ten tools and the system controls. Slide to a slice, let go. Done.
No account. No telemetry. No servers.
hold · flick · release
New in 1.0.5
Spotify, browsers and native players all land in the wheel's centre: album art, play/pause and track skip, a volume ring you drag or scroll, tap-to-scrub and one-tap mute. Space and the arrow keys work while the wheel is open.
This update makes the controls reliable on Edge and Chrome playback.
App slices behave like taskbar buttons, one flick earlier. Not running — release
launches it. One window — release focuses it. Several — they fan onto the outer
ring as previews you slide straight onto, with New window always last.
Green dots and counts show what's running at a glance.
Timer, calculator, colour picker, magnifier, clipboard history, screenshot, quick note, caffeine, focus dim and dictation. Each opens as a popover — no taskbar entry, no alt-tab stop. Esc closes it; the pin keeps it floating.
Settings, Task Manager, Wi-Fi, Volume, Sleep and Lock, reached exactly like everything else — no hunting through the tray or the Start menu.
Settings keeps a live wheel beside the window that redraws as you change it:
five sizes, label length, fan depth, motion, themes. Everything writes straight
to config.json and applies immediately.
all opt-in, all local
A seven-day file inbox with previews, search and archive. Nothing vanishes at midnight.
Feed the Shelf from your phone through a Telegram bot you create. Your token is DPAPI-encrypted; there's no Gola server in the path.
Park screenshots, notes and cards on the right edge. Hides itself when empty.
Hold, speak, and it types into whatever you were working in. Whisper runs on your own machine — audio never leaves your PC. Off until you turn it on.
An Apps › slice fans out your eight most recent windows — alt-tab as a flick.
Bind any tool to a combination that works without the wheel. A modifier is required, so a bare letter can never fire while you type.
no account · no telemetry · no servers
A hold-and-flick launcher needs permissions that deserve a straight answer.
%APPDATA%\Gola\ holds settings; %USERPROFILE%\Gola\ holds screenshots, notes and Shelf files.Full detail in the privacy policy.
No. It installs a keyboard hook, captures screen content for the previews, and opens the microphone only if you turn dictation on — each is listed above with what it's for. There is no account, no telemetry and no server to send anything to.
Keyboard hooks, screen capture and launching configured commands are together a heuristic match for what antivirus engines watch for. All three are required for a hold-and-flick launcher to work at all. The Store build is signed by Microsoft.
Almost always a trigger conflict: layouts that use AltGr — which Windows reports as Ctrl+Alt — collide with the default. Change it in Settings → Keymap to Ctrl+Shift.
Settings → Keymap takes any combination of Back, Forward and Middle — hold and flick, or tap to leave the wheel open for a click. For a trackpad, pick Middle, then set Windows → Touchpad → Three-finger gestures → Taps to "Middle mouse button". Gola takes the button over, so it stops doing browser back/forward.
Extra buttons on gaming mice never reach Windows as mouse input — give one a keystroke assignment in your mouse software and set that as the chord instead.
%APPDATA%\Gola\ for settings, %USERPROFILE%\Gola\ for screenshots, notes, Shelf files and the speech model. Nothing leaves the machine.
Out now
Signed by Microsoft, updates arrive on their own, installs without a SmartScreen argument.