What Is Uvora?
If you juggle multiple Laravel applications — client work, side projects, and packages you help maintain — you know how much time disappears just navigating to the right folder. Uvora is a free macOS menu bar app built specifically to solve that problem. Press ⌘⇧L, type a project name, and open it in your editor. That is the entire workflow.
Uvora is built by Efekpogua Victory from Viqe Systems Ltd. and is currently at version 0.1.4 in public beta.
How Uvora Works
You point Uvora at the root folders where your Laravel projects live. It then builds a local index by reading the files that define a Laravel application:
- Routes
- Controllers
- Livewire components
- Eloquent models
- Migrations
- Config files
- Service providers
- Composer dependencies
Because searches hit the index rather than scanning the disk in real time, Uvora reports results in under 50 milliseconds.
You do not need to trigger a manual rescan. Uvora watches the folders it already knows about and picks up new projects automatically as you clone them.
Editor Integration
When you select a project from the search results, Uvora opens it in your preferred editor. It detects whichever of the following editors you already have installed and respects the one you set as default:
- VS Code
- Cursor
- PhpStorm
- Sublime Text
- Windsurf
Local by Design
The index is stored in an SQLite file on your Mac. There is no account to create, no cloud sync, and no telemetry. The list of projects you work on never leaves your machine — a meaningful guarantee if you work under NDAs or exclusively in private repositories.
System Requirements and Availability
Uvora requires macOS 13 or later and runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Windows and Linux support is listed as coming soon.
The default keyboard shortcut to open the search window is ⌘⇧L, though you can change it in preferences.
Key Takeaways
- Free with no paid tiers, currently in beta at v0.1.4
- Indexes routes, controllers, models, migrations, config, service providers, and Composer dependencies
- Sub-50 ms search results from a local SQLite index
- No account, no telemetry, no data leaves your machine
- Automatic project detection when you clone new repos
- Supports VS Code, Cursor, PhpStorm, Sublime Text, and Windsurf
- Requires macOS 13+; Windows and Linux support coming soon
You can download Uvora and learn more at uvora.dev.
Source: Laravel News — Uvora: A macOS Menu Bar App for Finding Laravel Projects
