HyperSwitch

Hmm. Intel only. Beta only. For "OS X Mountain Lion, Mavericks & Yosemite" only. And: "Known issues: • Previews sometimes don't show up immediately (wait a few seconds). • Some preferences are not working at all. • No option to show minimized windows yet. - -> I'd say to avoid unless you're into experimenting on an Intel Mac. Not Ready For Prime Time.

This app is awesome ! No other similar app works as well as HyperSwitch.

If you are still bothered by the incorrect expiration prompt, you can fix it with the following methods https://github.com/qzz0518/remove-HyperSwitch-expired-dialog

The functionality of HyperSwitch can be sort of replicated with BetterTouchTool. It's not a perfect replication, but it's a way to get around the HyperSwitch expiration problem. (And I think everyone can benefit from running BetterTouchTool.)

Beta expired on June 26 2021. No point in installing it as it just quits. Update says it's the latest version. Contacted developer twice - by email and on site customer service form. No response. Too bad. It was a great app.

I am using Version 0.2.585-dev: however I am not receiving trial expiry issues! Please fix.

This shows a lot of potential, and for a beta version is impressively stable. My biggest suggestion would be having the ability to see tabs as windows. As it currently stands, Hyperswitch will show you the current active tab in a window, but not the other ones. Witch will display tabs as windows, but the interface isn't nearly as slick as Hyperswitch - and it costs $14.

Adds a lot to the default Cmd-Tab experience.

Why is this feature not build into mac yet, its super convenient . However, the thumbnail still does not refresh instantly when menu is activated. I have to wait 3 seconds for it to refresh. This bug? still persist since the version for Mavericks.

Easy to use; stable like rock.

It's confusing that it says it's free, but the latest bug fix says it fixes the trial expiry? So, if it's free, why does it expire?

I really love this, I'd love it more if options would work. One thing I'd love to do, I'm not sure if its possible but cmd tab would change just the app then a different key would start changing windows for the app that is currently selected. Please just update the application, there's nothing else quite like it.

Wow! This is superb, and nearly perfect already. I've been using Witch for years, which I always thought was really good, but this is immediately better in several ways. Lately Witch has suffered from an annoying issue with OSX's new(ish) "Desktop as Spaces" feature, whereby the Witch UI disappears really slowly when you switch to a window that's on another monitor (and therefore on another space). I contacted Witch about this and they told me it was an inevitable workaround to a system issue that 'might' be fixed in Witch 4. Well, HyperSwitch fixes that immediately! Not only that, HyperSwitch is showing me windows that I have been missing from Witch for years! I always found it annoying that I couldn't see certain types of windows in Witch switch, usually preference panes. They also don't show on uBar, a Dock replacement I use, so I figured maybe it was just a system limitation. Nope. HyperSwitch displays *all* my open windows, meaning I no longer lose them behind other windows and can switch easily back and forth. When I first installed HyperSwitch I had three such preference pane windows hidden under multiple other windows that I had no idea were still open. Wonderful. On top of that it's fast, looks pretty good, and I haven't found any of the expected beta bugs. Wow! I'm very impressed. This could easily be a v1.0 finished product already. Some minor feature requests: 1. Options for different styles of list appearance, in particular an optional Vertical Display. Witch displays a vertical list, and I think I might prefer that - it can be better when there are many windows, and it allows for longer display of window titles 2. Option to disable mouse input. I often switch windows with my left hand while holding the mouse in my right; if I accidentally move the mouse cursor over the HyperSwitch UI, it will change my place in the list. I never want to use the mouse to switch windows, so I'd like to disable all mouse input. 3. More keyboard shortcut options: it should be possible to bind any key to Witch activation, not just Cmd/Alt/Shift+Tab. Witch has a whole long list of options, such as "All applications' minimized", and actions like "Deminimize all minimized windows" and "Zoom frontmost window". I haven't used these much myself but some might find them useful. At the least, it should be possible to assign any shortcut to activate HyperSwitch. But these are only nice-to-have requests, this is already a wonderful app and I have stopped using Witch after 3+ years and am now using Hyperswitch as my only application/window switcher. Great job! PS. Some comments below ask for a merge windows option - if that is added, please do add it as an *option*. I definitely don't ever want that! I want every window separate, always. Two windows from the same app are always two separate windows to me.

Not bad as for beta version. And really misses the "merge' option. Like it but it has minor bugs yet.

Very good, but I miss option to 'merge' windows of the same application into one. I mean, when I have open 2 Finder windows by pressing CMD + Tab I want to see only one and then by pressing CMD + ` I would switch between those 2 Finder windows.

I love this app, but it hobbles the behavior of my Application Switcher keyboard shortcut in a critical way I loathe. Normally when I hit command-tab, I can continue to hold down the command key, then tap the tab key repeatedly to move forward through open app icons. I can also hold down the command key and tap the tilde key to reverse direction through the running apps. HyperSwitch kills this for me even after fiddling with the HyperSwitch shortcut options. No matter what I do in the HyperSwitch preferences, the tilde key does nothing and I can't move backwards through my open apps within the App Switcher, only forwards in one direction. This dramatically hurts my workflow speed when I have many apps open. Within the HyperSwitch preferences it has an option to use the Shift key to "cycle backwards", but that only seems to work for the windows within the apps, not cycle backwards through the App Switcher's open apps. I don't see how to change these settings. I want the tilde key to cycle backwards through apps in the App switcher. Until then, I regrettably can't use this app despite it's advantages otherwise. Mac OS 10.9.5

And in less than 24 hours, there's an update that fixes the expiration! That's awesome. I'm upping my rating by a half-star for that. (The last half-star is only because this is still a beta.)

Really excellent for a beta. This does exactly what I want from a window switcher without any of the extraneous features other such apps have. I can choose to switch between apps (OS X default CMD-Tab behavior), all open windows, or just the frontmost app's windows as I wish. That's really all I want: a simple enhancement to the already-existing app switcher. It still lacks the ability to switch to hidden or minimized windows, but the developer says on his web site that this is next on his list, so I'm looking forward to that. Occasionally it crashes, but that's not unexpected from a beta. My only real issue at this time is that upon launch today, HyperSwitch gave me a message saying that the beta was expired, but when I had it check for updates, there were none available. It still ran after that check, and it seems to be working as usual, but it always bothers me when a developer puts an expiration date into a beta and doesn't have a new version available by that date. There are other ways to keep users from running an out-of-date beta indefinitely without crippling functionality if the next update isn't ready when it was expected. If you can't commit to a firm release schedule for updates, don't code in firm expiration dates. So a half star off from perfect simply because it's a beta and therefore unfinished, and another half star off for the expiration problem. Otherwise, a wonderful yet simple utility. I eagerly await the 1.x release.

Very promising utility, but lacks (crucial) minimized/hidden window switching, which I use very often.

Dear dev, some months ago you promised to put a Snow Leopard compatible older version of HS(not to be updated but working). Any news?