Hold ⌥, tap Tab, and let go. Option is a keyboard app switcher for your Mac, in premium materials, right on the display you’re working on.
Free on the Mac App Store · macOS 14 or later · No permissions needed
Hold ⌥, tap Tab. Let go, and you’re there.Pin your favorites. Press 2 for your second pinned app, even when it isn’t running. (Option Pro)Type to jump. Type “mu” and Music is selected. Let go to switch. (Option Pro)A quick tap. Tap ⌥⇥ and you’re back in the last app you used.
How it works
The whole thing takes a second. Your hand already knows the way.
Rest your thumb on the Option key, right beside the space bar.
Your apps appear on the display you’re working on. Tap again to move along; add ⇧ to go back.
The selected app comes forward with all its windows, and the switcher is gone the moment you choose.
Features
A complete app switcher, free. Option Pro adds three ways to get there even faster.
Keep holding ⌥ and type the first letters of an app’s name. “sa” is Safari, “mu” is Music. It knows app names in your language too.
Read the guideGive up to nine apps a number. With the switcher open, press 1–9 to go straight there. If the app isn’t running, Option opens it.
Read the guideTurn on This display only and the switcher lists just the apps with windows on the display you’re using. Every display gets its own switcher.
Read the guideThe switcher opens where you’re working, not on whichever screen happens to be the main one.
Tap ⌥⇥ without pausing and you’re back in the last app you used, as if you’d never left.
Keep ⌥⇥ or choose any shortcut you like. Restore the default with one click.
Choose the size, light or dark, show or hide app names, and reduce visual effects.
Order apps by when you last used them, and include hidden apps when you want them.
Open the switcher from the menu, reach your pinned apps, and launch Option at login.
Design
Glass that picks up the colors behind it, a raised plate under the selected app, and fluid, precise motion that keeps up with every press. Made for your version of macOS, in light and dark.
Accessibility
Full VoiceOver support. Option respects Reduce Motion, Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast. The selected app stands out by size, depth and position, never by color alone.
Keyboard
Everything works from the keyboard, and the mouse works too.
Privacy
Option works without special permissions. It never connects to the internet and never records the apps you use.
No Accessibility, Screen Recording or Input Monitoring access. Not a single permission prompt.
Option has no network access at all: no analytics, no ads, no account.
The order of your recent apps lives only in memory and is gone when Option quits.
Option never reads window titles or anything on your screen.
App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected. Read the privacy policy
Option Pro
Everything you need to switch apps is free. Option Pro is one purchase that adds type to jump, pinned apps and This display only.
Free
One-time purchase
Try every Pro feature free during setup, for real, with your own apps.
Option Pro is a one-time In-App Purchase on the Mac App Store. Accessibility and appearance options are never behind a purchase.
Guides
FAQ
Yes. The switcher is free, with your own shortcut, every appearance option and full accessibility support. Option Pro is a one-time purchase that adds type to jump, pinned apps and This display only. No subscription.
No. Option asks for no permissions at all: no Accessibility, Screen Recording or Input Monitoring. It has no network access and collects no data.
Yes. Option uses its own shortcut, ⌥⇥ by default, so macOS’s ⌘Tab keeps working exactly as before.
Yes, any time, in Option’s Settings. Restore brings ⌥⇥ back. On macOS 15.0 and 15.1, which block ⌥-only shortcuts for App Store apps, Option offers ⌃⌥⇥ with one click.
Option switches between apps and brings all of an app’s windows forward. To move between the windows of the app you’re in, use macOS’s ⌘`.
Yes. The switcher opens on the display you’re working on. With Option Pro’s This display only, each display lists just its own apps.
Any Mac with macOS 14 or later.
English, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, French and Spanish. Type to jump understands localized app names too.
Hold ⌥. Tap Tab. You’re there.
Free on the Mac App Store · macOS 14 or later · No permissions needed