Your turn, right window.
Tern is a window switcher for Mac that lives in your menu bar. Press ⌥ ⇥ to switch windows, and hide the apps that just get in the way.
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Not notarized by Apple yet: on first launch, go to System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway.
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Hold ⌥ and tap ⇥ to move. Let go to focus.
Features
The switcher your Mac is missing.
Windows, not apps
Every window is a card with a preview, in the order you used them. The previous one is always a tap away.
Hide what gets in the way
Hide a whole app or just one window. Tern stops showing them until you take them off the list.
Your shortcut
Record any combination. Tern intercepts it so it doesn’t also fire in the frontmost app.
Out of the way
Lives in the menu bar, with no Dock icon. Native Swift, lightweight, no account, no tracking.
Shortcuts
All from the keyboard.
- Open and move forward ⌥ ⇥
- Move back ⇧ ⇥
- Focus the window ⏎
- Hide the app ⌫
- Hide just the window ⌥ ⌫
- Close the switcher esc
Switch windows without thinking.
Download Tern, grant Accessibility, and press ⌥ ⇥.
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