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CmdTab

App switching without the bloat.

A lighter, simpler replacement for Cmd‑Tab and Option‑Tab, trimmed down to just the essentials. One list for your running apps, one for the windows of the app you're on, and nothing you have to learn.

macOS · Signed & notarized · Not yet released

Runs entirely on your Mac. The only connections it makes are a daily update check and a license check, both against this site.

The CmdTab app switcher: a vertical list of running applications, each with its icon and name, with the second entry highlighted.
Cmd‑Tab: every running app, in one readable column.
The CmdTab window switcher: a list of the open windows belonging to one application, each with its title, with the second entry highlighted. Some window titles are redacted.
Option‑Tab: the windows of the app you're already in. (Titles blurred here; yours won't be.)

A list you can actually read.

Apps run down the screen with their icons and their names, one per row, at a size you can read without leaning in — instead of a row of look‑alike icons you have to count across.

Windows, not just apps.

Option‑Tab lists the open windows of the app you're in, by title. Six browser windows stop being six identical entries and start being the one you meant.

Keeps working when the OS won't.

Switching survives secure keyboard entry — a Chrome password field, a terminal with Secure Keyboard Entry on — which is exactly when a switcher usually goes dead.

How it works

  1. 1

    Grant accessibility access.

    CmdTab asks once, on first run, and checks the permission is really there before it takes over your keys.

  2. 2

    Hold and tap .

    The app list appears. Keep tapping to move down it, release to switch. Exactly the muscle memory you already have.

  3. 3

    Swap for for windows.

    Same gesture, same list style — this time the windows of the app you're already in.

  4. 4

    Forget it's there.

    That's the whole app. Nothing to configure beyond the sort order, nothing to maintain.

The fine print