Tabnax
Select Mac windows and browser tabs by typing letters
Details
- External ID
- 1261513
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Tabnax
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Productivity, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Give windows and browser tabs stable letter addresses, then type one to switch directly. Search by title or URL when you don't know the address. Pin letters to favorite apps, including apps that aren't running. Free and open source for Apple silicon, macOS 15+.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- keyboard window and tab switcher for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and letter-matching logic are simple, but reliably intercepting global system keystrokes, querying window lists, and introspecting active browser tabs across diverse browsers requires deep macOS accessibility and AppleScript/CoreGraphics APIs.
What it would actually take: Requires a native Swift/macOS application integrating CGWindowList APIs, Accessibility (AXUIElement) APIs, and browser-specific AppleScript/JXA scripting bridges to query tabs in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. The challenging part is handling macOS permissions, edge cases across non-standard window managers, and keeping tab state synchronized without excessive polling.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 346 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #100 of 347 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- Initials · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- TabSash · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- VortexFlow · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Accent Letters for Mac · ph · 2026-09-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Glance Switch · ph · 2026-09-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- GroupShelf · ph · 2026-09-29 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Switchover · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- NavKey · ph · 2026-09-17 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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