Open Contexts
Switch, search, and group your Mac windows
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Details
- External ID
- 1277545
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Open Contexts
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.77
- Tags
- Productivity, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
Description
Switch between individual Mac windows, search app names and window titles, and keep related windows in saved groups. A native Swift app with a persistent app bar. Free and open source.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS desktop utilities and launchers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- window manager and switcher for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While basic Swift menu bar apps are straightforward, reliably querying, controlling, and grouping third-party macOS windows requires low-level macOS Accessibility APIs (AXUIElement) and Quartz Event Services, which are notoriously finicky and poorly documented.
What it would actually take: Requires native Swift/macOS development utilizing the Accessibility API (`AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue`, window list APIs) with system-wide permissions. The core difficulty lies in managing asynchronous IPC, permission workflows, undocumented window behaviors across various apps, and edge cases with spaces/multiple monitors. Deep macOS platform expertise is required to make window manipulation smooth and crash-resistant.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 351 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #106 of 352 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.
- TabSash · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- GroupShelf · ph · 2026-09-29 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Riffle · hn · 2026-09-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- rooms · github · 2026-09-23 · 322 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Tabnax · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Acclimach · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- WindowReturn · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Search On Mac · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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