The final version is here · the SuperTab you have been waiting for
The SuperTab you remember,
rebuilt from scratch
SuperTab for Mac is back: the original stopped working, so we built it again for today’s macOS. One panel on ⌥Tab — your apps, every window of every app, clipboard history, recent documents and your own files. The system ⌘Tab stays exactly where it was.
14-day trial · macOS 14.6 and later · Apple Silicon and Intel
One panel instead of five habits
Every row is its own source. You decide which rows you need, in what order, and how large.
Applications
Running apps, most recent first. Switches even to what sits on another desktop.
Windows
Every window of every app, across desktops, minimized ones too. You see each window itself, not a line in a list.
Clipboard
What you copied: text, images, files. You see the content without opening it. Anything copied from a password manager never lands here, and you can add any other app to that list yourself.
Favorites and your own sets
The files, folders and apps you open every day. Keep several sets, one per kind of work.
Dock items
What you already keep in the Dock, without minimizing anything or reaching for the bottom of the screen.
Recent documents and apps
Get back to what you worked on yesterday without remembering where you put it. Kept up to date while the panel is open.
A shelf for files
Drag files onto the Drop Shelf or Custom Items row to keep them at hand while you switch. One overlay: apps, windows, clips, files. Not a separate edge shelf. Not a shake gesture.
Different work, different sets
Work, home, deep focus — each gets its own tab with its own rows. Switching swaps the whole panel and leaves the other sets alone. Up to nine tabs; double-click a tab to rename it.
- Keys 1 2 3 jump straight to a context
- Arrows move up and down the column
- Rows are edited in the panel itself: type, tile size, order
For side tabs, set Tabs to Side in Settings.
A clipboard where you can see what is in it
Most clipboard managers show a list of identical lines. Here every entry looks like what it is: code as code, an image as an image, files as a stack of icons.
- Text, rich text, images and files
- Pin what matters and it is never pushed out
- Passwords from password managers never reach the history
- Pick an entry and it is pasted where you were working
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What it needs to run
The app asks for three system permissions. Each one is requested on first launch, with a note on what it is for.
Want a faster switcher and nothing else? Command-Tab Plus does that one thing. SuperTab adds rows, sets and clipboard to the same panel.
Your word matters
If anything behaves differently than you expected, tell us.
Installs like any app
Signed and notarized by Apple: macOS lets it through with no warnings and no workarounds.
Updates itself
New builds arrive inside the app. No reinstalling, no watching for download links.
What to write
What is missing, what felt unclear, where the app surprised you. Small things count too.
SuperTab 7 1.1 — the final version is here
Panel sizes. Two new sizes in Settings → Appearance → Panel size: Compact makes the tiles and everything around them smaller, Full Width stretches the panel across the whole screen, like in SuperTab 5.
Dim background. The screen behind the panel darkens while it is open. Set how much with the slider, up to 80%. Click the dimmed area to close the panel.
10 languages. SuperTab 7 now speaks English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Ukrainian and Japanese. Choose the language in Settings → Appearance — it changes right away.
Also in this version:
- One click on a tile opens it, even when another app is in front.
- Folder rows: choose the order — date added, date modified, name or kind.
- Rename… items in Custom Items rows.
- Apply to All Rows gives every row the color of this one.
- Recent Items show a preview of the file itself; hover a file to see its name and full path.
- Show in Finder for apps in Applications and Recent Applications.
- Widgets find plugins in any Plugins row.
- The mouse no longer takes over the selection while you move with the arrow keys.
- Clipboard history skips items larger than 10 MB.
Questions people ask
I used the old SuperTab. Will my setup come over?
Yes. Settings → General → Import from SuperTab 5 reads the old setup and rebuilds it here as rows, so you are not laying everything out again from an empty panel.
How is the file shelf different from Yoink or Dropover?
Yoink and Dropover give the files a shelf of their own. SuperTab catches the drag inside the switcher panel you already opened, so the files sit next to the apps and windows you are switching between. FilePane and Dropzone put actions on the drop in a UI of their own; here the action is a cell in a row.
Does it replace the system ⌘Tab?
No. SuperTab opens on ⌥Tab and leaves ⌘Tab exactly as macOS made it. You keep the switcher you already know and get a second one that holds windows, clips and files.
Can anything private end up in the clipboard history?
Copies from password managers are left out by default — 1Password, Bitwarden, Enpass, Passwords and Keychain Access among them — and so is anything an app marks as private. You can add any other app in Settings → Clipboard → Excluded apps. The history is stored only on this Mac, and nothing is synced anywhere.
Documentation
From first launch to the row you build yourself: permissions, tabs, clipboard, plugins and widgets, and what to do when something goes wrong.