Totally agree that radial menus feel so natural for quick tool switching and expert workflows — that’s what inspired Pie Menu.

That said, for dense context menus and dropdowns, I think linear lists are actually faster to scan.

I’m a designer who built a radial menu app (Pie Menu) for macOS as a side project. This is the story of what went right, what went wrong, and what I learned turning an idea into a shipped product.

Yes. We’re having some issues with Adobe apps on some Macs. We hope to have a fix out for that soon!

Could you elaborate what you mean by dynamic?

That the options were populated smartly, with menu information / AI etc :)

Removing the unwanted ones is easy :)

No. Not at the moment. We're currently only available in the App Store or in Setapp. Though you could install it via:

$ brew install mas

$ mas install 1631568126

In the onboarding you can set your own preferred keyboard shortcut.

Nice! That would have probably saved me a lot of time when implementing on the website instead of trial and error. Current version on the website is however only done with CSS (and React).

It already shows the text of the currently-hovered menu item inside the center of the circle. See examples here: https://www.pie-menu.com/help/show-options

Thanks! That is a really fun interaction, and something I think I'll explore as we later on probably will work on submenus.

Thanks. Didn't think of that. Do you have a suggestion of what character I could use for Cyrillic keyboard layout or others?

Ideally, you shouldn't rely on characters for this, you should instead use the key code (which is 90 for z/я), which identifies the physical key on the keyboard as opposed to its corresponding character in the current layout.

Here's a useful tool for finding out key codes: https://www.toptal.com/developers/keycode