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BetterCmdTab for Mac

Fast, native ⌘Tab replacement with liquid glass design and zero telemetry.

By rokartur. Free and open source, GPL-3.0 licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

BetterCmdTab at a glance

Version
26.7
Released
13 August 2026
Download size
5.4 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
GPL-3.0
Category
Windows and Keyboard
Developer
rokartur
GitHub stars
795

About BetterCmdTab

Master your Mac’s ⌘Tab

Screenshots

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How to install BetterCmdTab on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for BetterCmdTab and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 26.7 from rokartur's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to BetterCmdTab show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: BetterCmdTab-26.7-20260813144806.dmg (5.4 MB).

What is new in BetterCmdTab 26.7

## Highlights
Browser tabs become first-class rows you can search, preview and limit; the panel is rebuilt as real glass with adjustable size, width and corners; and every setting can now be driven from a documented `~/.config/bettercmdtab/config.json`.

### Added
- Browser tabs are searchable: start typing to filter across open tabs as well as apps and windows, with results ranked by how well they match.
- Browser tab rows show favicons and live previews, so a tab is recognisable before you commit to it (#40).
- Tab rows carry the icon of the browser they came from, so two tabs with the same title are still tellable apart (#131).
- The number of expanded tab rows per window can be capped, so a browser with fifty tabs no longer floods the list (#144).
- Browser tabs also expand in the windows switcher, not just the apps switcher (#119).
- Every setting can be read and written from `~/.config/bettercmdtab/config.json`, edited live while the app runs (#117).
- The config file ships a JSON Schema describing every key, its type, default and allowed values, so an editor can complete and validate it.
- Live window previews, bounded so a wall of windows cannot run away with memory.
- Switcher text size and font face are adjustable, and both can be overridden per shortcut.
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