--- title: Uvora: A macOS Menu Bar App for Finding Laravel Projects description: Uvora is a free macOS menu bar app that indexes Laravel projects on your machine and lets you jump to any of them via a keyboard shortcut (⌘⇧L). It scans... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/uvora-a-macos-menu-bar-app-for-finding-laravel-projects-dm9gipio0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Uvora: A macOS Menu Bar App for Finding Laravel Projects | daily.dev og:description: Uvora is a free macOS menu bar app that indexes Laravel projects on your machine and lets you jump to any of them via a keyboard shortcut (⌘⇧L). It scans... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/uvora-a-macos-menu-bar-app-for-finding-laravel-projects-dm9gipio0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dm9GiPIO0.png og:image:alt: Uvora: A macOS Menu Bar App for Finding Laravel Projects og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Uvora: A macOS Menu Bar App for Finding Laravel Projects **[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 2 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Uvora is a free macOS menu bar app that indexes Laravel projects on your machine and lets you jump to any of them via a keyboard shortcut (⌘⇧L). It scans configured folders and builds a local SQLite index covering routes, controllers, Livewire components, models, migrations, and more — returning results in under 50ms. The index stays entirely on your machine with no accounts, syncing, or telemetry. Uvora auto-detects editors like VS Code, Cursor, PhpStorm, Sublime Text, and Windsurf. Currently at version 0.1.4 beta, it runs on macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon and Intel), with Windows and Linux support coming soon. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Is there a tool to quickly find and open Laravel projects on macOS without digging through folders? Uvora is a free macOS menu bar app that indexes Laravel projects on your machine and lets you jump to any of them with a keyboard shortcut (⌘⇧L by default). It scans routes, controllers, models, migrations, config, and Composer dependencies to build a local SQLite index, returning results in under 50 milliseconds, then opens the chosen project in VS Code, Cursor, PhpStorm, Sublime Text, or Windsurf. _Developers juggling many Laravel codebases can find tools like this alongside other Laravel news on daily.dev._ ### Does Uvora send any data about my Laravel projects to a server? No, Uvora stores its project index locally in an SQLite file on the Mac, with no account creation, no syncing, and no telemetry, so information about the projects a developer works on never leaves the machine. This makes it suitable for developers under NDA or working with private repositories. _Privacy-conscious Laravel developers evaluating local-first tools can track releases like this on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@brennangoewert** · 0 upvotes > > Anyone juggling a stack of Laravel apps at once, client work, a few side projects, and packages they help maintain knows how much time it takes just to find the right folder. That is the one job Uvora sets out to do. > > Not a mac user, never had a need for something like this. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The New Debug Bar for Laravel](https://daily.dev/posts/the-new-debug-bar-for-laravel-ucjxhtzdb) · Benjamin Crozat · 17 upvotes · 2 comments - [A new beta of Laravel Wayfinder just dropped](https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-beta-of-laravel-wayfinder-just-dropped-73rfde4l9) · Laravel News · 33 upvotes · 1 comments - [GitHub - refactoringhq/tolaria](https://daily.dev/posts/github---refactoringhq-tolaria-n8n5mm0em) · Hacker News · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel), [#mac](https://daily.dev/tags/mac), [#sqlite](https://daily.dev/tags/sqlite) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/uvora-a-macos-menu-bar-app-for-finding-laravel-projects-dm9gipio0) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Uvora: A macOS Menu Bar App for Finding Laravel Projects","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/uvora-a-macos-menu-bar-app-for-finding-laravel-projects-dm9gipio0","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/uvora-a-macos-menu-bar-app-for-finding-laravel-projects-dm9gipio0"},"datePublished":"2026-07-13T13:41:13.501Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:36:57.191Z","description":"Uvora is a free macOS menu bar app that indexes Laravel projects on your machine and lets you jump to any of them via a keyboard shortcut (⌘⇧L). 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