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Witch

Paid text-list switcher for windows, tabs and apps across spaces

Price: $14 once

This versionThe next major is a new purchase

Buy direct

Price read on manytricks.com, the page Buy direct opens.

The catch

Your licence is valid forever but includes only about a year of updates, and Witch 5 will cost extra

The full picture

Major version upgrades are paid: the Witch 3 to 4 upgrade was $8, roughly 57% of list, which is a fair guide to what the next one costs. Note the wording too — "at least 1 year of updates" is a time window, not the life of the app, even though the licence itself never expires. The free AltTab covers most of the same ground with thumbnails, so what you are buying here is the text-list approach, tab switching and a commercial product with support behind it. Needs Accessibility permission, and requires macOS 10.13 High Sierra or newer.

Replaces
Setapp
Seats
No Mac count statedNo seat count: the Many Tricks licence agreement grants use "on as many Macs as you personally use".
Developer account
None needed

What it looks like

Witch: Witch's window switcher invoked over a macOS desktop: a translucent rounded panel listing open Safari windows by title ('Many Tricks - Fine Mac Utilities' highlighted in blue, NASA, National Air and Space Museum, Apple, National Gallery of Art), each with a small live thumbnail and the Safari badge. This IS Witch's interface — the overlay is the whole product. 1600x788 JPEG.
Witch's window switcher invoked over a macOS desktop. Vendor site (manytricks.com/witch/, the linked full-size version of the in-page screenshot)
Witch: The tab switcher: same overlay style, listing individual Safari tabs by page title (Many Tricks, Name Mangler, Keymo, Witch, Moom) with Safari icons. Shows the tab-switching feature that the listing says is the reason to pay over free AltTab. 1600x788 JPEG.
The tab switcher: same overlay style, listing individual Safari tabs by page title (Many Tricks, Name Mangler, Keymo, Witch, Moom) with Safari icons. Shows the tab-switching feature that the listing says is the reason to pay over free AltTab. 1600x788 JPEG. Vendor site
Witch: Witch's settings window — 'Enable Witch' checkbox, Actions / Appearance / Advanced / About tabs, and three configured actions ('Cycle Apps > Windows', 'Cycle Apps', 'Deminimize Frontmost App's Minimized Windows') each with Sort by, Orientation, 'List windows from all spaces', 'List tabs', and a keyboard-shortcut field. 1336x1134 PNG. Caveat: this pane is drawn in an older macOS style (pre-Big Sur system-preferences chrome), so it looks dated next to the two switcher shots.
Witch's settings window — 'Enable Witch' checkbox, Actions / Appearance / Advanced / About tabs, and three configured actions ('Cycle Apps > Windows', 'Cycle Apps', 'Deminimize Frontmost App's Minimized Windows') each with Sort by, Orientation, 'List windows from all spaces', 'List tabs', and a keyboard-shortcut field. Vendor site

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What you’re buying

Witch takes the same complaint AltTab does — that Command-Tab switches apps, not windows — and answers it with text instead of pictures. You get separate switchers you can bind independently: one for applications, one for every window, one for browser tabs. Once you know your own window titles, reading a list is faster than recognising a thumbnail, and it reaches the minimised and hidden windows the system switcher pretends do not exist.

The licence is the usual Many Tricks arrangement. $14 buys Witch 4, your licence is valid forever, and the page promises at least a year of updates rather than updates for the life of the app. When Witch 5 arrives it will be a paid upgrade: the 3-to-4 upgrade cost $8, about 57% of full price, which is a reasonable guide to the next one. There has never been a subscription anywhere near this app, and Many Tricks has been shipping since 2010 and answers email, which is the real difference between this and the free option.

Be honest about that free option, though. AltTab does per-window switching with thumbnails for nothing and is the better default for most people. Buy Witch if you specifically want text lists over thumbnails, or tab switching, or a commercial product with a person behind it.

What owners report

Points that recur across the discussions below. A report of what users say, not our verdict: we don’t review software.

Praised

  • Owners point to the depth of configuration - several independent switchers each with their own trigger keys, and switching between browser, editor and terminal tabs

Criticised

  • Several long-time owners report it degrading on newer macOS: one describes a multi-second wait to list all windows, another says that is why they stopped using it, a third that OS updates keep breaking its permissions

Details

The price in full

$14 direct from Many Tricks, with the licence terms stated on the page as "Includes at least 1 year of updates. Your license is valid forever." Owners of the previous major version can "Upgrade for just $8!". Current release is Witch 4.7. Free trial, no subscription of any kind.

The Witch page at manytricks.com
The developer’s own page. manytricks.com, captured 22 Sep 2026
Free trial
Yes
Works offline
Yes
Apple Silicon
Native
Minimum macOS
macOS 10.13
Developer
Many Tricks

Also bought outright

BetterTouchTool$15

Gestures, shortcuts and window snapping, with a real $25 lifetime licence

Moom$15

Grid popup on the green button, plus layouts that follow your displays

Swish$16

Two-finger trackpad gestures on the title bar instead of shortcuts

AltTab$9.99

Window switcher with thumbnails, free core plus a one-time pro tier