DeskStag
Name your Mac desktops, right inside Mission Control
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macOS has labelled your desktops "Desktop 1, 2, 3" since 2011 and will not let you rename them. DeskStag puts your own names and colours directly on the Mission Control thumbnails, not just in the menu bar, on a stock Mac with SIP intact and notarised by Apple. One-time purchase, 14-day free trial, no subscription, no account. Apple Silicon, macOS 13+.
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PH · launched Oct 14, 2026 · 4 upvotes (top 7%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Design Tools
- Productivity
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See all 218 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial The settings UI and naming logic are vibe-codeable, but overlaying labels on Mission Control requires low-level macOS window-server or accessibility work that is fragile across OS versions.
What it would actually take: The app would be a native Swift/AppKit menu bar app that reads and writes desktop space identifiers and renders overlays on Mission Control, likely through private CoreGraphics/SkyLight APIs or accessibility hooks. The hard part is reverse-engineering Mission Control's undocumented window layout and keeping it working across macOS updates. It needs someone comfortable with macOS internals, code signing, and notarization.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 218 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #31 of 219 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 270 days after the earliest competitor.
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