The tab switcher for Mac that starts with windows

No. TabTab is a list you filter, like every other switcher on this site. This app arranges every window and every tab as real perspective cards in seven shapes, Cover Arc, Carousel, Ring, Flip 3D, Panorama, Grid and 2D Row, that you orbit with the trackpad. A tab arrives as a card of its own rather than a row of text, so you spot it in the scene the way you spot a window.

There is a free tier, but it only tracks 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 rather than an account. Ours is 19.99 once for two Macs, with search and every arrangement included from the first launch, nothing held back behind a higher tier.

On browsers the two are close: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera and Chromium here, plus the tabs macOS itself draws in Finder, Terminal and TextEdit. TabTab reaches further outside the browser, into apps like VS Code, Figma and Notion, which is worth weighing if that is where your day happens. What it does not do is show any of them as a picture.

Yes, its search matches the full page address, which is a real edge if you remember links rather than page titles. Ours matches the app name, the window title and the website behind a tab, and it forgives typos, so gml finds Gmail and giggle docs still finds every Google Docs tab you have open, in any window, in any browser.

TabTab's own site does not say. Its demo is a video, and everything about the product suggests icon-and-text rows rather than real thumbnails, but that is not confirmed anywhere in writing, so this page does not claim it either way. Here, every window and every tab is a real picture of what is actually on screen at that moment, updated live rather than drawn from a cached icon.

It shows you the windows. Every window and every tab is a real picture arranged in one of seven 3D shapes you orbit, rather than a row you read. Tabs stack into one pile per browser window, a quick tap of the shortcut flips to your last window with nothing drawn on screen, and with a file in hand you can carry it to a buried window.

TabTab offers a seven day money back guarantee after purchase. Better Window Switcher offers 14 days, on top of a seven day free trial with no account or card needed before you buy anything at all, so you can properly test it before either refund window even starts, and before either company has any payment details from you at all.

Yes. Every feature is unlocked for seven days with no account and no card, and there is a 14 day money back guarantee after that if you decide it is not for you, so trying it costs nothing but the time it takes to open it and see how it feels next to whatever you already use today, tabs included.