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Every app, file and folder you use, in rows.

Tabarooni is an app switcher for Mac. Double-tap the hotkey of your choice and your apps, documents and folders appear in colored rows. Click one, type a name, or just say it, and you're there. If it isn't in a row, Tabarooni finds it anywhere on your Mac or your external drives.

Two views, one set of rows. The Wide View is for everything: every row, front and center. The Sidebar View is for focus: your rows slide in along the left or right edge of the screen, so you can grab what you need without covering what you're doing. Each view has its own hotkey and remembers its own workspace.

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Get started in a minute

Seven things are all you need. Tabarooni shows this Quick Start right after you install it, and the full manual is built in for everything else.

Quick Start

1. Open Tabarooni: Double-tap ⌥ Option, or the hotkey you choose. Tap it once to close.
2. Make a row: Click + New Row at the bottom left and give it a name.
3. Add things: Drag apps, files, folders or websites onto a row, or click its +.
4. Search: Just start typing a name and press Return, even for things that aren't in a row.
5. Ask Tabarooni AI: Type “Create 2 rows” or “Open Mail and Safari” and press Return.
6. Right-click for more: Right-click any icon or row to rename, color, move, split or remove it.
7. Settings and help: The ⚙ button holds every setting, the Quick Start and the full manual.

Arranged the way you work

The Dock gives you one line. Tabarooni gives you as many rows as you want, workspace sorted your way, and much, much more, one keystroke away.

Rows your way

Rows of anything: Put apps, documents and folders in a row, including ones on external drives. Drag icons to reorder them, or from one row to another.
Colors and dividers: Give each row its own color, and add dividers to group things inside a row.
Hide, show or shrink rows: Hide a row you only need sometimes and bring it back from the ⚙ menu, or shrink it to a slim bar with just its name. Click the bar and it opens again. Nothing inside is lost.
Side-by-side rows: Split a line into two, three or four rows so short groups sit next to each other.
Combine and arrange rows: Drop one row onto another to merge their items, or beside it to put them side by side. Add a new row right above or below any row, duplicate a row, or copy it to another workspace.
Launch Groups: One icon that opens a whole set of apps, files and folders at once, like everything for a client meeting, a photo shoot or a recording session.
Folder rows: Point a row at a folder and it always shows what's inside.
A row from your Dock: One click turns your Dock into a row, with its spacers as dividers.
Workspaces: Keep separate sets of rows for business, design, writing, school or home, and switch in a moment with the workspace pills along the top. Each workspace has its own Running Apps row, too. Tie a workspace to a Focus and it changes when your Focus does.
Drag and drop: Drag apps, files, folders and web links straight onto any row from Finder, the desktop or your browser. Tabarooni stays open while you do, so you can add as many as you like.
Stays open when you want: Choose apps like Calculator, System Settings or the Trash, and Tabarooni stays on screen while you use them. Everything else closes it as usual.
Websites rows: A row just for websites, each with its own icon. Type an address, or bring in whole folders from your browser's Favorites bar: Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge and more. Web shortcuts dragged from the desktop get the site's icon too.
Recent Files row: Your latest documents from any app, newest first and grouped by app: the Word letter, the spreadsheet, the design, the project you just saved. Right-click any app's icon to see just its recent files.
Hard Drives row: Your Mac's disk, every connected drive and iCloud Drive in one row, at the size you like. Right-click a drive to eject it. Tidy your desktop by hiding external disks there, and keep them one click away.
Sidebar View: Open Tabarooni as a sidebar on the left or right edge of your screen, with its own hotkey. Rows wrap to fit, and the sidebar keeps its own width, icon size and workspace. Everything works there too: search, drag and drop, colors and menus. Turn on Stay Open and it stays beside your work, like the Dock.

Find it fast

Your choice of hotkey: Double-tap ⌥ Option, ⌘ Command, ⌃ Control or ⇧ Shift, or use ⌥ Space, ⌃ Space or ⌥ Tab. A second hotkey of your choice opens the sidebar.
Type to search: Start typing any part of a name and matching icons light up. Not in a row? Tabarooni finds it anywhere on your Mac or external drives, even a drive by its name. Press Return to open.
Show All: Lots of matches? The Found row fills the window, and the Show All button at the end opens a list of every one.
Type a command: Type “Launch Safari”, “Open browser” or “Find taxes” and press Return. Fix typos with the arrow keys, and copy and paste like any text box.
Voice Commands: Say “Open Photoshop and Mail”, or build a row by voice: “New row with Word, Excel and Mail.” Tidy up just as easily: “Hide the Business row” or “Shrink Utilities.” Speech is understood on your Mac.
Quick Look: Press Space to preview a document or picture, just like in Finder.
Hover previews: Rest the pointer on a picture to see it large. Turn on media previews to play video and music too.
Drag out to any app: Drag an icon from Tabarooni straight into an email, a Finder window, a Keynote slide or a design.
Just like the Dock: See which apps are running, the red badge counts apps show, how many new files have arrived in iCloud Drive, and whether the Trash is full or empty. Hide any app you don't want in the Running Apps row.
Fits your screen: Choose which display it opens on, set the icon spacing, or let Fit to Screen size everything for you.
Answers right in the bar: Type 128 * 4 or 15% of 240 for a quick sum. Type 120 bpm to see note lengths in milliseconds for delays and reverbs, or convert 500 ms in bpm, 44.1 khz, 10 inches in cm. Return copies the answer.
Smarter searching: Exact names come first, with everything else in Show All. Narrow it down with photos named beach, invoices from last week or PDFs on Backup Drive, or look in one place: BMI folder on my desktop, invoice in Downloads. Small typos are forgiven, macOS's system files stay out of the way, and ↑ brings back your recent searches.
One step to anywhere: Type bluetooth or sound to jump to that page of System Settings, press ⌥ Return to search the web, ⌘R or right-click ▸ Show in Finder to show an item in Finder, or ⌥⌘C to copy its location.
With or without Spotlight: Searching uses Spotlight for the fastest results. Prefer not to? Tabarooni can keep its own private list of file names for near-instant searches without it.

Tabarooni AI

Ask in plain English: Type “Create 2 rows”, “Create 3 split rows”, “New row with Photoshop, Safari and Mail called Design”, “Add Safari to Design”, “Make Design blue” or “Switch to my Design workspace”. Press Return and it's done; ⌘Z undoes any change to your rows.
Rewrite, elaborate, translate: “Rewrite this to sound friendlier: …”, “Elaborate”, “Fix the spelling”, “Translate this to French: …”, or “Write a thank-you note to a client.”
The AI Writer: Paste a paragraph and a roomy writing window opens, with Improve, Elaborate, Shorten, Fix Spelling, Friendlier, More Professional, Translate, or your own instruction.
Quick questions: “What does ROI mean?” Get a short answer, with a Search the Web button for more.
Private and free: Powered by Apple Intelligence, built into your Mac. What you type stays on your Mac, and it works without internet.

Your look, your style

Frosted or Liquid Glass: Choose classic frosted glass or Apple's newer Liquid Glass, and how strong the row colors look on it.
Solid or see-through: Keep rows translucent over your desktop, or make them solid for a cleaner look.
Rows your size: Make rows taller or tighter with Row Height, and slim the rows themselves with Row Size, while your icons stay the same size. Set the icon size, spacing and name label size separately for the wide view and the sidebar.
Ready when you are: Open at login, with your hotkey, from the menu bar icon, or by double-clicking any empty spot in the menu bar.
Color Folders: Give Finder folders any color to find them at a glance, and put them back to blue whenever you like.
English or French: Use Tabarooni in English or French, typed and spoken commands included. Choose in ⚙ → Language, or let it follow your Mac.
The juggler: Our mascot juggles whatever you open, in 3D. Prefer it calm? Turn it off in Appearance.

Your setup stays safe

Daily backups: Tabarooni saves a backup of your rows and settings every day, keeps the last seven, and restores any of them in two clicks.
Undo and Redo: Removed an icon or a row by mistake? Press ⌘Z and it's back. Changed your mind? ⇧⌘Z redoes it.
Presets: Save your favorite setup as a preset, with or without your rows and workspaces, and switch to it any time. Export a preset to keep it or share it, and import one with a double-click.
iCloud Sync: Keep the same rows and workspaces on every Mac you use. Sync right away, every 12 hours, when your Mac is idle or shutting down, or only when you click Sync Now.
Move to a new Mac: Export your settings to one file and import them anywhere.
Share rows: Send a row to a friend or coworker as a small file. They double-click it and pick what to add. Using several Macs? Choose just the rows you want from your main Mac.
Coming from SuperTab?: Bring your SuperTab 5 rows across with one import.
Always up to date: Tabarooni checks for new versions once a day, and Check for Updates is always in the menu.
Guided setup: When you install or update, a Setup window walks you through each Mac permission: what it's for, exactly what to click, and a green check when it's done.

Every feature

Here's everything Tabarooni does, all included in the free trial.

Rows

Rows for apps, documents and folders, added with the + button
Folder rows that show everything inside a folder
Make a new row from your Dock, or add Dock items to any row
A Running Apps row you can rename, move or hide, and hide any app from it
Split a line into up to four side-by-side rows, join parts back, or stack them
Launch Groups: one icon that opens several apps, files and folders
A Frequently Used row of the 12 things you open most (optional)
Dividers anywhere in a row
Eight row colors, or any color you pick
Rename, move up or down, and remove rows
New Row Above or New Row Below the row you right-click
Duplicate Row, and Copy Row to Workspace
Drop a row onto another to combine them, or beside it to put them side by side
Hide a row and show it again from ⚙ → Show Row, or shrink it to a slim bar and click to expand
Drag icons to reorder them or move them to another row
Drag apps, files, folders and web links onto rows from Finder, the desktop or your browser
Websites rows: type an address, or import folders from your browser's Favorites bar
Choose which browsers to import from: Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera or Zen
A clear outline and landing bar when you move a row
Long rows scroll sideways
Items on drives that aren't connected are kept and come back when the drive does
Recent Files row: your latest documents from any app, as many as fit, grouped by app
Show only one app's recent files, remove one, or clear the list
Hard Drives row, or Running Apps and Hard Drives side by side
Hard Drives rows show every connected drive and iCloud Drive; right-click a drive to eject it
Small, Medium or Large icons for drives and recent files, row by row
Web shortcuts from the desktop become website tiles with the site's icon
Rename any website tile; the link stays the same

Workspaces and Focus

As many workspaces as you like, each with its own rows
Switch workspaces with ⌘1 to ⌘9
Workspace pills along the top: click to switch, drag to reorder, right-click to rename, color or remove
Rename and remove any workspace
The wide view and the sidebar each remember their own workspace
Focus Filters: pick a workspace for each Focus and it switches on its own

Getting around

Seven hotkey choices, from double-tap Option to ⌥ Tab
A separate Sidebar Hotkey (double-tap Shift, or your choice)
Type to search, ignoring capitals and accents
Search your whole Mac and external drives, right from the search bar
Find drives by name, like “Macintosh HD” or your backup drive
Show All opens a list of every match, with Open and Show in Finder
Typed commands: Launch, Open, Find, plus “Open browser” and “Open email”
Move the text cursor with the arrow keys, copy and paste, double-click a word to select it
Arrow keys to move, Return to open, Escape to close
Space for Quick Look previews
Open the search bar with ⌘F or a tap of ⌥ Option
Stays open while you drag things onto it; closes with your hotkey, Escape, or a click on the desktop or another app
Stay Open for These Apps: pick apps (like Calculator or System Settings) that keep Tabarooni open while you use them
Exact names first in the Found row, everything else in Show All
Filters: kind of file, when it changed, and which drive or folder (“on my desktop”, “in Downloads”)
Small typos forgiven, and “quotes” for an exact name
Calculator, BPM to milliseconds, and everyday unit conversions
Type a setting like “bluetooth” to open it in System Settings
⌥ Return searches the web for what you typed
⌘R Show in Finder, ⌘Y Quick Look, ⌥⌘C copy location
Recent searches with ↑, and Shift or the mouse to select text
Accented letters and Japanese, Chinese and Korean input in the search bar
Hide macOS system files from search results (optional)
Search without Spotlight, with a private, near-instant file list (optional)
Apps start the moment you click, even the first time
Opens on the screen your mouse is on, if you like
Double-click any empty spot in the menu bar to open it (optional)
Right-click an app's icon to open one of its recent files
Optional settings icon in the menu bar

Voice Commands

Say “Open” and a name while Tabarooni is showing
Open several at once: “Open Photoshop, Safari and Mail”
Build a row by voice: “New row called Office with Word and Excel”
Speech is understood on your Mac, and only while Tabarooni is on screen

Tabarooni AI

Create, rename, color and delete rows by typing what you want
Make split rows: “Create 3 split rows”
Make a row with apps you name, or add apps to a row
Open several things at once, from anywhere on your Mac
Switch workspaces by name
Rewrite, elaborate, shorten, fix spelling, translate, or write something new
The AI Writer for longer text, with one-click buttons
Quick answers to questions, with Search the Web
Runs on Apple Intelligence: private, free, works offline
On from the start, and one Return does what you ask

Seeing more

Real pictures of your documents, not just generic icons
Hover over a picture to see it large
Hover to play videos and music (optional)
Red badge counts from your apps (optional)
A badge on iCloud Drive when new files arrive
Dots under running apps (optional)
A Trash icon that shows full or empty
Drag icons out into any app: Finder, email, Keynote, your design app

Looks

Frosted Glass or Liquid Glass
Soft, Rich or Vivid row colors on glass
Solid background option
Separate cards for each row, or one panel
Small, Medium or Large icons
Row Height: Taller, Standard, Smaller or Compact
Row Size: Standard, Slim or Extra Slim
Name label size slider
Sidebar View on the left or right, 3 to 10 icons across, with its own icon size, spacing and labels, and a Stay Open choice
Five icon spacings, from Extra Compact to Extra Roomy
Fit to Screen sizes everything for you
Juggler Animation when you open something (optional)
Color Folders: color any Finder folder, or reset it to blue

Backups and moving

Automatic daily backups, with the last seven kept
Back Up Now, Restore from Backup, and Show Backups in Finder
Undo with ⌘Z and Redo with ⇧⌘Z
Presets: save, apply, export, import and delete whole setups
iCloud Sync across your Macs: right away, every 12 hours, when idle or shutting down, or with Sync Now
Export and import all your settings
Import your rows from SuperTab 5
Share Rows: send rows as a file; the other person picks what to add
Choose from Main Mac: copy just the rows or items you want to another Mac

Setup

Simple installer that puts Tabarooni in Applications
Setup window that guides you through every permission, on install and after updates
Open at login
A one-minute Quick Start after you install, and any time from the ⚙ menu
User manual built right in, in English and French
English or French, typed and voice commands included (⚙ → Language)
Check for Updates, plus a quiet daily check
Free 14-day trial with every feature

Try it free for 14 days

Every feature works during the trial. When you're ready, buy a license and keep your rows exactly as they are.

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Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later)
macOS 13 Ventura or later. Liquid Glass needs macOS 26 or later.
Tabarooni AI needs Apple Intelligence (macOS 26 or later, turned on in System Settings)
Installs in one step from a simple disk image
One license covers 2 Macs. For more than 2 Macs, you'll need another license.

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