u/Beardy4906

Reddit. Was making a post and had to guess if I was typing correctly…

So imagine you're using your mouse and moving around switching between your apps across workspaces but it's gotten annoying.

You need to lift your hand from your keyboard, move it to the trackpad or your mouse, and then drag the cursor to the app you want to use, and then click it.

Like BRUHHH JUST LET ME PICK THE APP AND FOCUS IT.
CMD Tab partially solves it, but the number of times I've switched to the wrong app is insane.

This is where my app, Sxitch, comes in. You switch to an app by typing the apps name until there aren't any left. (see video). Use a hotkey of your choice, and keep typing the name of your app until no other matches remain, at which point the app will get focussed for you. 0 confirmation required, and your fingers don't have to tango with the keyboard.

CTRL + H or CTRL + Q can be used to go into hide and quit modes which will allow you to hide and quit apps directly from sxitch, making it easy to perform actions on multiple apps.

Here's the full feature list:

• app (free) & window (pro) switching
• an intuitive hotkey picker
• sxitch window positioning (free)
• multiple layouts (free)
• blacklists (pro)
• key remaps (pro)
• hotkey based app opening (pro)
• vendor prefix stripping, (free)
• hiding and quitting apps (pro)
• open sourced
• native swift app
• customisable position (free)

The best part is that its fully open source, but signed and notarized.

Pricing:

• Free
• Lifetime Pro ($10 once - has all features and all updates)
• $2/mth - Great for seeing if you want sxitch or not (after 5 months you can get sxitch pro lifetime)

Sxitch website • Sxitch github • Sxitch Privacy Policy

for mods - Sxitch was only recently open sourced hence why it only has 6 stars.

AI was used in the development of the app, but theres a lot of hand written code as well.

If you use raycast, you're probably impressed at what all it can do.

Well as a developer, I was as well, and I decided that maybe I could make my own version, thats open source, just to check out how raycast worked under the hood and what all bugs they had to trudge through.

That lead to the birth of my own tiny launcher, that I've recently been developing like crazy.

There wasn't really any problem, just that I was curious into developing this app.

The last image is how the app looked as its first ever version (2025 Dec)

Now it has:
- App Launching and automatic app discovery (obviously)
- Clipboard history with support for images, text and URLs
- Shell commands with optional hotkey
- Aliases
- Custom Theming
- Calculator
- Unit conversion
- Emoji search (i've used it a total of 1 time)
- Search with customisable search engine
- URL Scheme for controlling rustcast from other apps / processes
- Customisable positiong for the window
- Opt in / Out of clipboard history
- File search
- App quitting (all apps or specific app)
- Window tiling (12 different options)
- Multi Monitor support
- Opt out of icons
- Use custom fonts
- Vim mode based nav (CTRL + N / P for next / previous)
- Toml based config
- Customisable buffer rules
- Random number generator (Easter egg)
- Favourite apps
- What apps to show on window open

How does it compare to other similar apps?
Raycast: It's open source and is on a goal of achieving feature parity. Rustcast is also going to be taking a more, "anti AI" approach where all AI features will be via extensions and its an Opt in rather than an opt out.

Spotlight: The feature list should speak for itself, but rustcast supports many more features than spotlight and doesn't suggest random bs

Alfred: Rustcast has many more features in comparison to alfred for free all while being open source.

Pricing:
$500 is not going into my pocket. It's 100% free and open source, and you can get an easter egg by sponsoring rustcast :)

Github: https://github.com/MystikoLab/rustcast
Website: https://rustcast.app

Tech details:
Rust + Iced (No webview)
AI Code Policy: The contributor must be able to explain the code changed in the PR. Here's a recent example of what not to do: https://github.com/MystikoLab/rustcast/pull/298

Btw, Rustcast is also part of the MystikoLab project which is about making open source mac apps.

I am the developer of rustcast, and sxitch.
Personal Portfolio website

have fun using my app :)

Hi everyone! I'm the developer of Sxitch and Rustcast and I wanted to share a new project I've initiated called MystikoLabs

There are a lot of Mac apps today, but so many are proprietary..

How can you trust that those apps aren't malicious?

If it asks for accessibility permissions, it could be a keylogger! Being signed & notarized by apple only means that the app isn't one of known malware, and is signed by a valid apple developer ID.

Thats just one of the few problems with closed source apps. (higher costs for developers, and also more workload on developers)

Hence I decided to start MystikoLabs which is basically a place where I'll be making open source apps and publishing them, free for people to contribute, and earn free licenses for the apps, all while increasing transparency and trustworthiness for the apps.

That said, it doesn't mean that the apps will be 100% Free either. Frequent Contributors and Maintainers can get access to all the paid apps for free, whereas others who just want to use the full app can still pay to support the devs!

People can contribute with bug fixes or feature implementations, allowing them to both grow as a developer themselves, and also help the developer take some load of their shoulders.

From my experience with Rustcast, having people help out with features when you're going through a busy period in your life (on the developer end), it really helps to have someone just implement that one feature you had been procrastinating for god knows how long.

When you try and press the calendar button BOOM hover animation!!! I love vibe coding!! I'm not even sure its a button (since I can't be bothered to inspect element) but it sure looks like it should be

I've done it before by playing around in dvr but i forgot how to make it..

Switching between 4 or more apps is a really big pain with CMD Tab. The apps position keeps changing. Sometimes you only need to press Tab once. Sometimes you need to press it 4 times. And thats a hassle.

Thats the problem I had, which Sxitch solves.

Launch a app picker with rcmd or cmd+tab (you pick) and then use fir to pick firefox, or fin to pick finder.

The moment theres only one app that matches what you've typed, that app is focussed. It may not feel like much, but the consistent confirmation that app launchers like Raycast and Alfred might ask for do add app, and slow down your app switching.

Sxitch isn't an app launcher. It targets switching between the apps that you have open, and dynamically, yet sensibly deciding whats needed to be pressed in order to open the app. It doesn't require you to set a key for each app, you simply type the apps name.

I could ramble on and on, but the core app features are:

• App switching
• Grid / list view
• Vendor prefix stripping
• Customisable launching hotkeys

And the pro plan adds on the fancy stuff:

• Window switching
• Shortcuts to launch apps directly
• Theming
• Blacklist

App's resource usage:

• 0.1% CPU usage in the bg + each open + launch adds about 0.05 CPU Time.
• 50 - 60mb RAM usage in the bg
• 12 HR power usage sits is around 0.58

Pricing:

• Free version is, free..
• $10 for pro version, one time payment
• Student discount (50% off) available (email me with your student email)

Comparisons:

If you're wondering how Sxitch compares against Dory / RCMD

Get sxitch today:

• Homebrew brew install --cask unsecretised/tap/sxitch (Official cask is still using the rust version, i'm waiting for the homebrew cask to be updated)
• Sxitch website
• Sxitch pricing

>The older app was a Rust x Iced one, which made the UI, look pretty mid. But now its been rewritten in Swift. Rust version has been open sourced The new one is much better, has better animations and UI, and will be the one getting the newer features, and will be maintained.

Made an app and made a fair bit of cash from it.. but also did a few giveaways to try and get my app more known

So far I’ve tried:
Hand sanitizer
Rubbing alcohol
Water on a microfibre cloth
Nail polish remover

I don’t have isopropyl alcohol so anything else I can use?

I don’t want to use my nails cos I don’t want to scuff or scratch my mac..

You've probably experienced walking through a doorway and forgetting why you were going to that room..

For me, the digital version was swiping between workspaces and then a random window open from an app startling me..

Why is this app open here? I would close it and then have to remember what I wanted to do..

So that's how Sxitch came about..

Press rcmd or a key of your choice and the window above shows up. Pressing the first letter of the name, like w for whatsapp or sy for system settings and sp for spotify. (2nd letter only required when both are open)

If you have multiple ghostty windows, select ghostty first, then view all the ghostty windows and pick based on that.

Imagine:
- App switching,
- window switching,
- hiding and quitting apps,
- Blacklists
- Key overrides
- Prefix stripping (Adobe Photoshop -> Photoshop, Microsoft Excel - Excel)
- Custom themes
- List and Grid view
- Disable the picker UI (if you want)

You can also request features in the discord and report bugs / issues there as well.

All with a single app.

App pricing options:
- $10 (discounted) paid version which supports up to 3 devices, so you can share it with your friends
- If you're an influencer / content creator, you can claim a free pro license if you share it with your audience
- Free version which has the core app switching, and prefix skipping. It's meant to be a trial version so you can get used to the app before you switch.

Apart from that, the app is built using rust, and iced for the high performance, and supports both intel and m-series macs. Is fully notarised and signed with apple, and supports homebrew installations with brew install unsecretised/tap/sxitch

For the giveaway aspect:
- Comment below if you want a free license and i'll send you the code for one. (Make it interesting and limited to the first 10 people)
- If you're an app developer yourself, we can exchange pro licenses

Links:
- Website: https://sxitch.app
- Discord: https://discord.sxitch.app
- Github: https://github.com/unsecretised/sxitch-public

You just got an email about an urgent call you have to take. You're in Mail, and want to switch to zoom, which has been laying dormant for a while now. You could just cmd tab tab tab tab tab and keep tabbing till you reach zoom.

Or you could press `rcmd` and press z. 2 key presses and you're there.

Thats Sxitch.

But what if you also have Zen open? What if you wanted to pick Zen instead of Zoom? Well then `ze` for zen and `zo` for zoom. 1 to 2 extra key pressed but still better than `tab`x23

It can also do:
- app quitting
- app hiding
- blacklisting
- theme customisation
- overrides (so f can map out to firefox always)
- skip prefixes (so microsoft and adobe get stripped off)

All while taking up 70-100mb with 17 apps open, and ultra low energy usage (0.1 - 0.2 when not in use)

Note: it doesn't use any webview stuff.

Comparing it to:
- Dory - Focuses more on mouse based picking
- RCMD - Similar in many fashions.
- Raycast - Manual setup + only works on select few apps. Others require pressing enter. Raycast is a launcher, not a switcher

What you get for free:
- App switching
- Tree based picker ( The method described earlier)
- All resolvers (So instead of app name it would be abcd / qwerty / 01234) ,
- All themes and customisation of the themes.

Quitting every 36 hours has been removed. So you can enjoy Sxitch free for as long as you want!

Pro features:
- App hiding / quitting (Much more useful than it feels on the surface)
- Priority support
- A few places won't have the Sxitch branding
- One time payment, all future updates.

As this app is still new, I'm giving out 100% and US$5 Discounts for the pro plan

100% free -> use code MACAPPS (limited to first 10 people)

$5 off -> use code MACOS (limited to first 100 people)

If you're a student, email me (support@sxitch.app) using your school email prove it to me that you're a student, and I'll give you a 50% discount.

See the full website and Sxitch's features https://sxitch.app

Get Sxitch here and Join the discord here

Email: support@sxitch.app

Developer of rustcast.app
Personal portfolio umangsurana.com
App signed and notarized with a valid apple developer ID.

So i've been coding in rust for about 2.5 years and I recently made a closed source app in rust using iced: (one of my few closed source apps / projects)

https://sxitch.app

and its gotten 7 sales in 2 week

Just wanted to share since this is quite a big step for me since its my first money made from programming in general (not incl of github sponsors)

A little about the app:
- its a macos app switcher that using objc2 and taught me about apple API integration in rust
- its made in iced with subscriptions, animations and a bunch of cool other stuff which I wish i could share the code for 😭
- notarization and code signing and also bundling to a .dmg for macos which was really difficult to get up but discord and experience from rustcast.app bucked up