CLUSTER MACOS-DRAGGING-SWITCH · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-16
macOS radial app switchers
These are macOS utilities that replace or augment the system app switcher with a radial/circular menu opened by holding a key or mouse button and releasing after flicking toward an app. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from: it has 0 dated entries before the index start, so it predates the index or its members are undated. On traction, opie leads with 6 stars, followed by RingSwitch with 3 stars and halo with 1 star.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 1 indie · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01opie10★6 daysliveindiemacOS utility that opens a circular menu of actions around the cursor when a key is held, letting users launch commands by flicking toward an item.
- 02halo1★7 days—hobbymacOS ring launcher that lets users hold a key, flick toward an app, and release to switch windows or arrange apps by dragging.
- 03RingSwitch4★2 mo—A macOS app switcher with a radial menu that lets users switch apps by holding a mouse button, dragging toward an app, and releasing.
- 04rondo0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbymacOS app that replaces the system app switcher with a circular wheel of open applications for fast switching.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.