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TabSwitcher for Mac

Your next app,
at a glance.

A familiar card stack for the work you have open. See your apps, find your place, and move between them with a few keys.

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TabSwitcher’s translucent Mac interface with overlapping app preview cards, a search field, and a numbered recent-app row.
A classic card stack, with your next app in view.Sample workspace

A shorter way back
to what you’re doing.

The app you leave becomes your first recent destination. Move between a document and your browser, or a conversation and your work, without finding them all over again.

  1. ⌃⌥Tab

    Open your apps

    Press the shortcut to open the stack. It stays open when you release the keys.

  2. Type an app name

    Find your place

    Search by app name, or an available window title with preview access enabled.

  3. Return

    Get back to work

    Choose with the arrows and press Return to switch. Escape brings you back.

Preview cards help you recognize your destination. Selecting one brings its app forward; macOS and that app choose the active window.

One shortcut for apps.
Another for your folders.

Keep Office apps together. Give your browsers an Internet folder. Or gather the apps for a project into one place.

Open folders with Control + Option + Space. Each folder shows its running apps in recent order, while your all-app switcher stays a separate shortcut away.

TabSwitcher’s folder picker showing app groups and numbered choices in the native translucent window.
Group the apps that belong to the same kind of work.Sample workspace

Keep your everyday apps
on familiar keys.

Assign apps to slots 1–9 in Settings. Your pinned shortcuts keep their destinations as the recent-app list changes, and can launch a pinned app after it has closed.

Choose Command, Command + Option, or Control + Option as your pin modifier. Assigned combinations belong to TabSwitcher, so choose ones that fit the shortcuts you already use.

TabSwitcher’s native Shortcuts settings, with numbered app assignments and pin modifier choices.
Fixed app shortcuts, alongside a recent list that follows your work.Sample workspace

A rhythm for your keyboard.

A few shortcuts cover the everyday moves. Start with recent apps, then add folders and pins as your workflow takes shape.

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Browse recent apps
⌃⌥TabAdd Shift to browse backward.
Browse folders
⌃⌥SpaceChoose a folder, then an app.
Choose or cancel
ReturnorEscSwitch to your choice, or return to the app you left.
Go to the previous app
⌘⌥`Repeat to move between two apps.
Return to a saved app
⌘⌥RSet it first with “Set Return App” in the menu bar.
Open a pinned app
⌘⌥1–9The default after you assign your app slots.

While browsing, numbers 1–9 choose an app or folder. Once you begin searching, numbers become part of your query.

Your previews
stay on your Mac.

Turn on optional Screen Recording access to see still previews of your windows. The images stay in memory on your Mac. App switching and app-name search also work with icons, without preview permission.

No TabSwitcher account is needed. The app has no analytics or advertising, and does not upload your app names, window titles, or search text.

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Keep your work close.

TabSwitcher is coming soon to the Mac App Store.
Planned at US$5.99 as a one-time purchase.

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