TouchSwitcher For Mac

The 2016 MacBook Pro model introduced the Touch Bar, a new device designed to replace the old function keys and expand the area’s functionality.

TouchSwitcher is a small app that takes advantage of this new tool and offers you the possibility to switch between apps from the top of your keyboard.

Worth mentioning is that, even though the Touch Bar software component is integrated into the operating system, you can make use of what the TouchSwitcher app has to offer only on devices that also include the hardware component.

At the same time, TouchSwitcher does not come with a customization interface: all the interaction takes place through the Touch Bar. For your convenience, the app does come with a system wide hotkey for showing its icon and the app list: Option + 9.

As soon as you pick the TouchSwitcher application, you get to see its icon in the Touch Bar menu together with other system buttons. To see the list of applications, just swipe to the left, and the app will instantly expand in the Touch Bar menu.

TouchSwitcher places the recently used apps closer to the Touch Bar icon, which means that you get to find them a lot faster. To switch to the respective app all you have to do is tap its Touch Bar icon.

You get to hide the TouchSwitcher app by holding down its Touch Bar button, and you can change the default hotkey for revealing the menu. For the latter, you need to employ the Gear icon included in the menu. The same area allows you to quit the app switcher.

To sum up, TouchSwitcher is a simple yet very efficient tool designed to work with the latest MacBook Pro Touch Bar device. The utility allows you to select the app you want to use from a menu placed in the top area of your keyboard.

TouchSwitcher provides quick access to the recently used utilities and tries to provide a more time efficient and intuitive manner to switch between apps.