The best apps to get when switching from Mac to Windows. New, 138 comments. Wox is an open-source app on GitHub that is essentially a Spotlight or Alfred alternative for Windows. Affinity Photo is a past Apple Mac App of the Year Winner and the professional tool has everything you’d expect in a premium photo-editing product. Use it to edit and retouch images as well as create multi-layer pieces. The professional corrections and adjustments tools rival any other app out there and it has a great noise-reduction filter. Along with switching between your open applications on Mac, you might want to switch between windows of the same app. For instance, you may have more than one Word document, Firefox window, or Numbers spreadsheet open at the same time. Hold Command + ` (tilde key, to the left of 1 on your keyboard) to switch between windows of the same app. Little Snitch is a popular Mac app that detects outbound connections and lets you set up rules to block those connections. Once installed, Little Snitch monitors your internet traffic and every time it detects an outbound connection, for example, Adobe Reader trying to access the internet, it pops up a window and ask you if you want to allow the connection one time, or make a rule to allow.
Evernote Alternatives: Best Note Taking Apps! That ends our list of the best Evernote alternative note-taking apps you can use. All the apps that are mentioned here are really good. However, it totally depends on your use-case scenario and requirements as to which app is the best for you. Do check them out and let us know which one catches your.
Switch Everything
The built-in macOS app switcher is great if all you use are one-window applications. But you probably have many windows open in many apps, possibly with many tabs, and navigating them all is a pain. Enter Witch, with which you can switch everything…
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Can't decide whether you'd like to switch apps, windows, or tabs? With Witch, you don't have to decide; you can have as many switchers as you like.
Every switcher's actions—including sort order, orientation, and tab handling—can be customized to suit your needs.
Flexible Switchers
Unlike the built-in macOS app switcher, Witch isn't locked to one layout. As demonstrated in the splash movie, it can be set up horizontally, to mimic the built-in app switcher. Or it can also be used vertically, as seen in the above screenshots. But Witch has one more layout option: Menu bar mode.
Any Witch switcher can also (or only) be shown in your menu bar by checking the 'Show in menu bar' box on any defined Witch action.
Seek and Ye Shall Find
In addition to traditional 'see target, select target, activate target' switching, Witch supports search-based switching. Activate the search field and start typing—Witch will thin the list of matching targets in real time, making it simple to select just the app or window or tab that you want to activate.
More Nice Things
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Spring-load lets Witch do the work for you. Once enabled on the Advanced tab, Witch will automatically drill down and show the selected app's windows and/or tabs after the specified delay period.
Switch to accessory apps when they have standard windows open, e.g. our own Moom's preferences window when it's run in menu bar mode. These are typically invisible to the built-in application switcher.
Control Witch's powers by disabling its hot keys in certain apps, by excluding apps from its switcher, and by hiding unwanted windows—your graphic app's tools palette, for instance—from the switcher.
Plus much more: Set the panel's colors and fonts; define where the panel will appear; act on windows via keyboard shortcuts (H for hide, M for minimize, etc.); and so much more. Give it a test drive now and see all Witch's switching tricks for yourself.
Contexts lets you switch to windows with search. Press Control-Space (or whichever keyboard shortcut you prefer) to open the Search window. Type a few characters from an app name or window title to filter the list. Press Return to switch to the selected item.
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And in Contexts 3 we have taken search to a new level. Our goals were simple but ambitious: You should need as few keystrokes as possible — ideally just two for your frequently used windows; And it should be as deterministic as possible — so you can switch without even looking at the results most of the time. Here is how it works:
- Matches non-consecutive characters. You can type characters which are anywhere in the app name or window title. If an app has multiple windows open, type a couple of characters from the app name and a couple from the window title.
- Prioritizes acronym matches. Character matches at start of the app name and start of any words in the window title get a higher score. Most of the time typing the acronym of an item’s title is sufficient to make it the first result.
- Creates search shortcuts. Once you type a search query and select a window (with up or down keys if necessary), typing the same query later will cause that window to be the first result. E.g. type “s”, select Safari window from results and from then on that window will always be the first result for “s”.
Fast Search. If you want to go even faster, enable Fast Search, hold down the Fn key (or whichever modifier key you prefer1) and type a one or two character query (or a longer one if you want to). The Search window will appear with the results. Just release Fn and the selected item will come to the front. Combine this with search shortcuts and you can switch to Safari with Fn-s, Notes with Fn-n, Messages with Fn-me and so on. In two or three keystrokes, that is.
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1. Contexts recognizes left & right modifier keys separately. So you can set Fast Search to use, for example, only the left Option key or only the right Option key. The other modifier key will continue to work as it does by default.