Swish

The missing gesture layer for macOS.

4.6•12 reviews•

60 followers

The missing gesture layer for macOS.

4.6•12 reviews•

60 followers

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Control windows and applications right from your trackpad with intuitive swipe, pinch, tap and hold gestures. Works with Magic Trackpad & Mouse. Supports keyboard shortcuts.

Launch tags:Productivity•User Experience

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@chrfyi when I used Swish for hours, the “system preference” app will be opened automatically, Trackpad->Scroll&Zoom page will be open, after seconds, the system preference will be closed automatically. when this situation occur, the Swish hints will not work(the icon hint appeared while pinch&swipe). could you please check how to resolve this issue?

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6yr ago

Great app for windows management, but it is interfering with my ability to right click open apps in the dock since two fingers are used for both right click and to activate Swish gestures. Any way to disable Swish gestures for the dock? Thanks.

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6yr ago

Really love this app. I see that it uses native Apple's "natural scrolling" touchpad setting. Would be perfect if you could implement not "natural" gestures because every gesture now is upside-down :D

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7yr ago

Swish

Maker

@thebezzo Will be included in the next update, either by automatic detection or a switch in the settings!

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7yr ago

@chrfyi Great to hear! Can't wait for it :D

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7yr ago

A great companion, it slowly gets under one's skin and this window management quickly becomes a second nature. I love it, I notice some occasional weird behavior as far as the pinch in gesture to close the window - sometimes it does not get it the first time and I have to repeat it to get it detected (MBP Pro 2018, latest Mojave build). A note, I noticed the menubar three-swipe gesture works only like a two-swipe gesture so it minimizes all windows only on the active screen, not all screens. However, this is still a young project, and it already rocks, any roughness around the edges has time to iron out. Thank you, Christian, you have done a fantastic job!

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7yr ago

Swish

Maker

@redhicks Thanks for the nice words! Attributing windows to their corresponding screen takes some workarounds as the system APIs are limited, so there are bound to be some edge cases. I'll look into it!

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7yr ago

SocialAll

Hey @chrfyi, congrats on launching this awesome app. These are my wishlist. It would be awesome if you add it to the app 🤗 - Allow to disable a particular swipe. I only use a small set of swipe I can remember of. It's kinda frustrating when I accidentally swipe on something unexpected. - Allow to select action for each swipe. Swipe up to maximize and swipe down to restore are more intuitive to me. I barely minimize windows. - Also there's no ways to restore a window without Dock icon. An example is Swish preference window. If there's no Dock icon, swipe down on title bar will restore another app in the background. - Disable swipe on popover windows by default. I swipe on emoji picker window while my cursor is at the top border, and the emoji window disappear.

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7yr ago

Swish

Maker

Hey @huynhminhdang, thanks for the feedback! - Individual disabling might be coming, maybe in form of a simple switch next to each category. - Full configurability is a different beast and might make the app too complicated for the average user. - There are two ways to do this: You can always drag the window to unsnap and I just added a 'center' gesture in v1.0.1 (double tap w/ modifier) which also unsnaps. - I'm aware of the emoji picker issue. Normally I could simply blacklist that internally, but the picker becomes a full window when dragged out. So I'm investigating how to just block popovers. Stay tuned!

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7yr ago

Love the product, but was wondering if you could add a feature to move windows to another monitor, or in my case my iPad with sidecar. Thanks! @chrfyi

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7yr ago

Swish

Maker

@shreesh_sinha You can move windows between monitors, check the 'Screens' tab in settings. As for sidecar, you'd have to gift me an iPad to test it on haha.

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7yr ago

Supamail AI

Love this app. It solves the problem of window management in Mac.

Pros:

Very Responsive and works really well Once you get used to it, its hard to look back.

Cons:

None so far. (Impact on battery needs to be tested)

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7yr ago

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Reviewers largely see Swish as an intuitive, lightweight window manager that quickly becomes part of everyday Mac use, especially for trackpad-driven snapping, resizing, and organizing. Several say it feels natural, stays out of the way, and remains stable over long-term use. The main complaints are narrower but concrete: limited grid flexibility on wider or ultrawide displays, missing quarter-split layouts, occasional silent stops or crashes around newer macOS releases, and one report of serious conflicts with BetterTouchTool plus poor support response.

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