diff --git a/config/astal/components/launcher/Launcher.tsx b/config/astal/components/launcher/Launcher.tsx
index 85c5342..9b13853 100644
--- a/config/astal/components/launcher/Launcher.tsx
+++ b/config/astal/components/launcher/Launcher.tsx
@@ -1,22 +1,23 @@
 import { Variable } from "astal";
-import { App, Astal, Gdk, Gtk } from "astal/gtk4";
+import { App, Astal, Gdk, Gtk, hook } from "astal/gtk4";
 import AstalApps from "gi://AstalApps";
+import AppList from "./modules/Apps";
 
-const MAX_ITEMS = 8;
+const prefixes = ['='];
 
 function hide() {
-  App.get_window("launcher")!.hide();
+    App.get_window("launcher")!.hide();
 }
 
 const Launcher = () => {
-    const { CENTER } = Gtk.Align;
     const apps = new AstalApps.Apps();
     const width = Variable(1000);
+    const height = Variable(1000);
 
     const text = Variable("");
     const visible = Variable(false);
-    const list = text((text) => apps.fuzzy_query(text).slice(0, MAX_ITEMS));
     const onEnter = () => {
+        // TODO handle custom stuff
         apps.fuzzy_query(text.get())?.[0].launch();
         hide();
     };
@@ -29,13 +30,58 @@ const Launcher = () => {
         application={App}
         onShow={(self) => {
             width.set(self.get_current_monitor().geometry.width);
+            height.set(self.get_current_monitor().geometry.height);
         }}
         onKeyPressed={(self, keyval) => {
             if (keyval === Gdk.KEY_Escape) self.hide();
         }}
         child={
-            <box></box>
+            <box
+                vertical
+                cssClasses={["app-launcher-wrapper"]}
+                widthRequest={width()}
+                heightRequest={height()}
+                valign={Gtk.Align.CENTER}
+            >
+                <button onClicked={hide} visible={false} />
+                <box
+                    vertical
+                    cssClasses={["app-launcher"]}
+                    valign={Gtk.Align.CENTER}
+                    halign={Gtk.Align.CENTER}
+                    widthRequest={500}
+                >
+                    <button onClicked={hide} visible={false}></button>
+                    <box cssClasses={["search"]}>
+                        <image iconName={"system-search-symbolic"}></image>
+                        <entry
+                            placeholderText={"Search..."}
+                            text={text.get()}
+                            setup={self => {
+                                hook(self, App, 'window-toggled', (_, win) => {
+                                    if (win.name == 'launcher') {
+                                        self.set_text('');
+                                        self.grab_focus();
+                                    }
+                                })
+                            }}
+                            onNotifyText={self => text.set(self.text)}
+                            primaryIconSensitive
+                            onActivate={onEnter}
+                            hexpand></entry>
+                    </box>
+                    <AppList
+                        hide={hide}
+                        query={text}
+                        visible={text(v => {
+                            return !prefixes.includes(v.slice(0, 1));
+                        })}
+                    ></AppList>
+                </box>
+            </box>
         }
     >
     </window>
 }
+
+export default Launcher;
diff --git a/config/astal/components/launcher/launcher.scss b/config/astal/components/launcher/launcher.scss
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8f67caf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/astal/components/launcher/launcher.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+@use '../../util/colours.scss' as *;
+
+window {
+  background: transparent;
+}
+
+box.app-launcher-wrapper {
+  background-color: $shadow-color;
+
+  >box.app-launcher {
+    background-color: $bg-color;
+    border-radius: 30px;
+    padding: 20px;
+    border: 1px solid $accent-color-2;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/config/astal/components/launcher/modules/Apps.tsx b/config/astal/components/launcher/modules/Apps.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..abae8a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/astal/components/launcher/modules/Apps.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import { Binding, Variable } from "astal";
+import { Gtk } from "astal/gtk4";
+import AstalApps from "gi://AstalApps";
+import Pango from "gi://Pango?version=1.0";
+
+const MAX_ITEMS = 8;
+
+const AppList = ({ hide, query, visible }: { hide: () => void, query: Variable<string>, visible: Binding<Boolean> }) => {
+    const apps = new AstalApps.Apps();
+    const list = query((text) => apps.fuzzy_query(text).slice(0, MAX_ITEMS));
+    return <box>
+        <box
+            spacing={6}
+            vertical
+            cssClasses={["app-list"]}
+            visible={list.as(l => l.length > 0)}
+        >
+            {list.as(l => l.map(app => <AppButton app={app} hide={hide}></AppButton>))}
+        </box>
+        <box
+            halign={Gtk.Align.CENTER}
+            cssClasses={["list-empty"]}
+            vertical
+            visible={list.as(l => l.length === 0)}
+        >
+            <image iconName={"system-search-symbolic"}></image>
+            <label label={"No match found"}></label>
+        </box>
+    </box>
+}
+
+const AppButton = ({ app, hide }: { app: AstalApps.Application, hide: () => void }) => {
+    return <button
+        onClicked={() => {
+            hide();
+            app.launch();
+        }}
+        child={
+            <box>
+                <image iconName={app.iconName}></image>
+                <box valign={Gtk.Align.CENTER} vertical>
+                    <label
+                        cssClasses={["title-2"]}
+                        ellipsize={Pango.EllipsizeMode.END}
+                        maxWidthChars={40}
+                        xalign={0}
+                        label={app.name}
+                    ></label>
+                    <label
+                        wrap xalign={0}
+                        label={app.description}
+                    ></label>
+                </box>
+            </box>
+        }>
+    </button>
+}
+
+export default AppList;
diff --git a/config/astal/components/launcher/modules/Calculation.tsx b/config/astal/components/launcher/modules/Calculation.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29