Saltabo
A better ⌘Tab for macOS, with live window previews
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Saltabo replaces ⌘Tab with a switcher that shows every window, not just apps. See live previews, hover over the Dock to peek at an app's windows, type to find any window, and close or minimize without leaving the switcher.
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PH · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
Similar launches
See all 334 similar launches →Could you build this?
No Replacing system-level macOS keyboard shortcuts and capturing live window previews across other applications requires deep low-level macOS private APIs, Accessibility/Screen Recording permissions, and Quartz/SkyLight internal window management.
What it would actually take: Building Saltabo requires Swift/Objective-C interfacing with undocumented macOS private window server APIs (CGS/SkyLight) and ScreenCaptureKit for live rendering of background windows. The developer must handle delicate OS-level event taps (CGEventTap) to intercept Command-Tab before the system Dock handles it, alongside strict sandbox and accessibility privilege management. This requires deep macOS internals systems programming experience that AI assistants cannot reliably guide without extensive reverse-engineering of macOS system services.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 334 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #198 of 335 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 337 days after the earliest competitor.
- DockLens · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- DockThumb · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Orbit · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Tabnax · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- DockLens-app · github · 2026-10-01 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Open Contexts · ph · 2026-10-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Acclimach · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- TabSash · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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More details
- External ID
- 1283568
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- Saltabo
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- All tags
- Productivity, Developer Tools, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
- AI summary
- window switcher with live previews for macos
- Manually corrected
- No