TabSwipe 1.2 is out: Faster Gesture Engine, Bookend-Aware Tab Strips and Near-Zero Battery Drain.
Hey r/macapps! Problem For anyone who hates using keyboard shortcuts to jump between tabs, I just pushed a major update to TabSwipe - a lightweight utility I built to give you fluid, reliable tab swiping across your favorite apps. This version is a massive under-the-hood rewrite focused entirely on making the app feel incredibly precise and native to macOS. Here’s what’s new in v1.2: 📚 Bookend-Aware Tab Strips Swipe gestures now stop at the very first and last tab. Previously, TabSwipe didn't know how many tabs you actually had open. it would just keep trying to switch even if you were on the very last page. Infinite scrolling can be enabled in settings. 🔧 Revamped Gesture Processor The old engine had a 30ms wall-clock guard that occasionally got tricked by two-finger trackpad movements.The new gesture engine is much smarter - it filters and verifies intentional movement before acting whilst being more responsive than the previous version. ⚡ Zero Battery & CPU Drain The gesture engine is completely event-driven, meaning it essentially goes to sleep the second your fingers leave the trackpad. Because it only wakes up when you are actively gesturing rather than constantly monitoring in the background, idle CPU now sits near 0% 🔐 Fully Apple Notarized No more meddling with Mac security settings on first launch. The app is officially notarized by Apple, meaning Gatekeeper will let you open it securely without any "unidentified developer" warnings. ----- Supported Apps & Compatibility OS: macOS 13.0+ (Fully compatible with Apple Silicon) Supported Apps: Safari, Chrome, Brave, Arc, Terminal, VSCode (and more!) Try it out! 🔗 Try it out for free here. Comparison BetterTouchTool and MultiTouch rely on keyboard shortcuts for tab switching. TabSwipe is purpose-built for tabs, with continuous gesture scrolling, bookend-aware tab strips that prevent over-scrolling, one-minute setup, and comes in at roughly half the price. Pricing 3-day free trial £5.49 - £9.99 depending on the plan & amount of devices. (up to 3 devices) 7 Day money-back guarantee. If you're not 100% happy, get a full refund. --- Transparency: Privacy policy: https://tabswipe.app/privacy.php linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/felix-a-525482411 Terms: https://tabswipe.app/terms.php
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How did you do the live touch video? It is really cool!
Thanks! The app already collected the raw finger coordinates, sizes, and velocities in real time for the gesture engine, so I built a visualizer on top of that just for the demo.
+1 on this. I'm curious if something similar works on iOS too.
just used. love it. purchased straight away
thank you 🙏
Does it work in Electron apps like Visual Studio Code?
HI would love to give it a try but the site's blocked on my end and does it work with zen which is similar to arc
looks like a cloudflare issue - I'll take a look. Zen/Firefox isn't supported yet.
What about vertical tabs?
yep, works with vertical tabs too.
I assume this won't work if I already have 3 finger drag enabled?
Correct, you'll need to disable three-finger drag to use it.
Hey this does not work with external apple trackpads, can you fix it? thanks
small bug with external devices, should be fixed now 👍
Bookend-aware tab strips is a smart touch. nothing more annoying that the gesture firing when your already on the last tab. are you reading the tab count via accessibility API's or something different?
The site is blocked for me.
Woa. This makes the mac feel much smoother.
Oh, I had struggled with that when I switched from Windows to Mac, because switching tabs was part of my work pipeline - will test it
Thanks this is great. I had something setup up on my windows machine back in the day (you can do it easily and natively in windows surprisingly) but missed it on mac.
Wow really cool idea! I’m still a big keyboard user for traversing through tabs but that breaks down at some point with so many tabs. I might have to give this a go!
This looks really nice!