Sash
tiny macOS utility to reliably cycle through app windows
Details
- External ID
- 47724888
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Stash
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
macOS's built-in cycle window shortcut (⌘` / ⌘@) has always been flaky for me. Probably not a Show HN, but if it annoyed me this much it might be annoying some others.Only tested on the latest macOS — would appreciate any reports from other versions.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- app window switcher for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a focused macOS menu bar/hotkey utility that uses the Accessibility API to enumerate and switch app windows, which modern LLMs can easily scaffold in Swift.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Apple's native cmd+backtick (broken implementation)
Concerns raised: Forward switching occasionally hiccups/fails, Keyboard shortcut stops responding after a few minutes, Animation/jitteriness when switching windows, Stops working when windows are minimized, Cycling through all windows instead of just app windows
Feature requests: Reverse cycling/backward window switching, Reduce or remove animation when switching, Support for cmd+backtick without modifier keys, Better stability and reliability
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 233 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #222 of 234 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 145 days after the earliest competitor.
- Switchover · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- SpinWin · hn · 2026-07-25 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Chain Your Mac · ph · 2026-09-20 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Tessa · ph · 2026-09-24 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Pocket Screen · ph · 2026-07-17 · 207 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Waffle · hn · 2026-04-11 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- rooms · github · 2026-09-23 · 322 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ALT · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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