A TabTab alternative for Mac

No. TabTab has no 3D arrangements. Better Window Switcher arranges every window and every tab as real perspective cards in one of seven shapes (Cover Arc, Carousel, Ring, Flip 3D, Panorama, Grid and 2D Row), and you orbit them with the trackpad. A tab is a card like any window, so you find it in the scene the same way, by sight or by typing part of its title.

Partly. Its free tier tracks only your five most recent windows and tabs. Full use costs 18.99 USD for one device, 24.99 for two or 32.99 for three, sold through Lemon Squeezy with a license key instead of an account. Better Window Switcher is a one-time purchase for two Macs, and search, tabs and every arrangement are included from the first launch, with no higher tier to buy later.

It supports a different set. TabTab lists 11, counting beta channels, and they include Arc, Comet and Helium, which this app does not read. Better Window Switcher reads tabs from Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi and Opera, plus the tabs macOS itself draws in Finder, Terminal and TextEdit. TabTab goes further outside the browser, into VS Code, Figma and Notion. Here, all of your windows and tabs sit in one 3D scene.

Yes. TabTab matches the full page address, which helps if you remember links better than page titles. Ours matches the app name, the window title and the website behind a tab, but not the full address. It forgives typos, though, so gml finds Gmail and giggle docs still finds every Google Docs tab you have open, whichever window it is in.

TabTab's own site does not say, and its demo is a video, so we make no claim either way. Better Window Switcher shows each window as a picture of what is in it, and the card you have selected is live. A Chrome or Firefox tab card wears its site's icon, and a Safari tab shows Safari's icon until the switcher has seen it in front. The pictures stay on your Mac.

Two things, going by TabTab's own site. It puts every window and every tab in a real 3D scene, in one of seven shapes you orbit, and TabTab has no 3D arrangements. And every feature comes with the one purchase, where TabTab's free tier tracks only your five most recent windows and tabs. Here, tabs also stack into one pile per browser window, so twenty tabs take one place in the scene.

TabTab gives you seven days to ask for your money back after you buy. Better Window Switcher gives you 14 days. Before that, you get a 7-day free trial with every feature unlocked, and it asks for no account and no card. So you can use the full app for a week before you pay anything, and you still have two weeks after buying to change your mind.

Yes. The 7-day free trial unlocks every feature, tabs included, with no account and no card. It needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later. By default it runs on Option-Tab, next to Command-Tab, so Command-Tab keeps working the way it always has while you try it. If you buy it, one payment covers two Macs and nothing recurs.