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Rest the mouse on an app in the Dock, and its windows pop up in a list above it.
- The active window is marked with an accent bar and the words "Active window", so you don't have to rely on bold text alone.
- Click a window to go to it. Press × to close it.
- Minimized windows and windows on other desktops are listed too, and say so.
- Click the app you're in to minimize its window, and click again to bring it back. Clicking another app brings its most recent window forward. Clicks with modifier keys (⌘, ⌥ and so on) go to the Dock as usual.
- Apps without windows get no list; the Dock does what it always does.
- The Dock is untouched. Folders, Trash, badges, drag and drop, magnification and your Dock position (bottom, left or right) all work as before.
Safari, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi and Opera list each window's tabs under it, and so do Finder and Terminal.
- The tab you're on is marked in the app's colour.
- Each site gets its own colour chip, and the same site always gets the same colour.
- Duplicate tabs are marked "Duplicate", for the 14 tabs of the same doc we all have open.
- Long lists fold after eight tabs; "Show all N tabs" unfolds them.
- Click a tab to go straight to it.
Tabs are read from the browser's tab bar, never from page content.
With thumbnails on, apps with up to five windows show picture cards. Browsers and apps with more windows keep the list, with one big picture of the window under the mouse.
Hold ⌘ and press Tab: every window stands in a slanted 3D stack, with the most recently used in front.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Tab | Next window |
| ⇧ Tab | Previous window |
| ← → | Move through the stack |
| Release ⌘ | Switch to the window in front |
| Return | Switch (also while filtering) |
| Esc | Cancel, or clear the filter |
| Click | Switch to that window |
- Type to filter. While holding ⌘, type part of a window's title, app name or document name. The stack narrows as you type, and Return switches. Matching ignores case, but ä and ö count as letters of their own, so "öö" won't find "Outlook".
- Every window: minimized ones, full-screen apps and windows on other desktops.
- Without thumbnails each window is a card showing the title in a bar of the app's colour, the app icon, the document name, the display it's on, its size and a mini-map.
- With thumbnails the window's own close, minimize and zoom buttons are covered by the app's icon, because forty identical traffic lights aren't helping anyone.
- Works under secure input. Password fields and some terminal modes turn on macOS's secure keyboard input, which blinds most switchers. DockFlip's keeps working.
macOS's own ⌘Tab is switched off while DockFlip runs and comes back when you quit. ⌘` stays the macOS way.
⌃⌥ plays the Win key. See Keyboard Shortcuts for the full map.
- Keyboard: halves, maximize, restore and minimize, quarters, and moving a window to the next display.
- Mouse: drag a window to the left or right edge for a half, to the top edge to maximize, or near a corner for a quarter. A preview shows where it will land.
- Windows remember their place for each display setup. Unplug the external display, plug it back in, and every window returns to where it was.
- Clean Up (menu bar → Clean Up…) lists windows unused for three days and apps running without windows. It only suggests. Nothing closes without you, and apps still ask to save.
- Not responding: a hung app's window list says so.
- Show desktop with ⌃⌥D, like Win+D.
- Window Layout in the menu bar menu lists every shortcut; clicking one applies it.
- Replace the Dock. (We built our own taskbar once. The real Dock won.)
- Thirds, gaps, "almost maximize" and other Rectangle-style extras. Rectangle does those beautifully.
- A Start menu. Spotlight is right there.
- Settings for things that should just work.