Desktops
Always know where you at, in terms of desktops in macOS
Details
- External ID
- 1263661
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Desktops
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Menu Bar Apps, Apple
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Desktops is a sleek macOS menu bar utility that shows your active desktops at a glance. So you always know where you at, in terms of desktops on macOS. You get the mental picture of your macOS workspace and helps you multitask. Click to switch. Customisable styles. Lightweight and native.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- desktop workspace indicator for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial macOS does not provide a public, documented API for managing Spaces or programmatic desktop switching, requiring private CoreGraphics/SkyLight APIs and accessibility hacks.
What it would actually take: The app requires a Swift macOS utility using undocumented private SkyLight framework methods (such as `SLSGetActiveSpace`, `SLSMoveWindowsToManagedSpace`) or bridging into the yabai/chunkwm open-source codebase. The hard part is dealing with macOS's strict sandbox restrictions, SIP (System Integrity Protection) barriers for certain window server APIs, and reverse-engineering private C APIs that break across macOS releases.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #161 of 270 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.
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