Flick
Every window. One flick.
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Details
- External ID
- 1277865
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Flicka
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 4
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.93
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Tech
Description
Flick is a fast, searchable window switcher for Mac. Hold ⌥ and tap Tab to jump to any window on any Space, or type to find it. Private and keyboard-first.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS system utilities and customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- window manager for desktop users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No A Mac window switcher that can detect and switch windows across different macOS Spaces requires private macOS APIs, accessibility permissions, and reverse-engineered window server internals.
What it would actually take: Building this requires deep Swift/Objective-C knowledge of macOS Core Graphics (CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo), SkyLight framework private APIs, and the Accessibility API (AXUIElement). Interacting across native virtual Spaces without official public APIs is notoriously fragile and requires undocumented OS hooks and low-level event tapping (CGEventTap).
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 229 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #31 of 230 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Betterswitch · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Chain Your Mac · ph · 2026-09-20 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- SpinWin · hn · 2026-07-25 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Riffle · hn · 2026-09-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- SlapScroll · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Open Contexts · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Avy Tab Switcher · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42