Swish

The missing gesture layer for macOS.

4.6•12 reviews•

54 followers

The missing gesture layer for macOS.

4.6•12 reviews•

54 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.

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Maker

Hey there! I love using the trackpad on my MacBook Pro and always wondered why its excellent gesture recognition does not extend to controlling windows and apps. Also, dragging-based window managers suck on a multi-monitor setup. So after graduating, I spontaneously decided to learn Swift and make this idea reality. You will most likely need a short time to get familiar with Swish's gesture system, especially for advanced features like pausing gestures, chaining from dock and screen switching, but after that, 'swishing' becomes second nature and you won't be able to live without it. There are a lot of details to discover. The documentation for Swish is its preferences window, so read thoroughly! This launch turned out to be sliiiiightly stressful as I wanted to get Swish out before WWDC on Monday and I had to rethink some core components after realizing that apps using the Accessibility API cannot be published to the App Store anymore. Oops. There is a 7 day trial period, after that Swish is 5€/$/£ for a limited time. Swish is notarized by Apple, so it's ready for the latest Mojave update (10.14.5). Let me know if you need help enabling system permissions! I really hope you like it and although I call myself 'highly opinionated', I am always open to suggestions, so bring 'em on!

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7yr ago

Doopoll

@chrfyi Really nice work, Christian. I'm a heavy Alfred and keyboard shortcut user so this could be the missing piece for me! Who do you see this product being for? I'm always amazed that people don't know about the native gestures that are already available to them.

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7yr ago

Swish

Maker

@iammarcthomas I'm glad you like it! It's mostly aimed at trackpad power user, "casual" MacBook users seem a bit overwhelmed at first. Everyone loves the swipe down to minimize gesture though. Most of the gestures also work on Magic Mice, although it feels a bit clumsy to me — maybe because I'm not used to working with a mouse anymore.

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7yr ago

@chrfyi I like Swish！so I paid Swish 5 EUR via PayPal to activate it. but after I paid the bill, I don't receive any activate code yet！how could I resolve this issue? thanks for your help.

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6yr ago

Swish

Maker

@jackchen23 Should be resolved!

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6yr ago

@chrfyi Really loving Swish so far! I'm not able to find the documentation in the preferences window though. Where can I find it?

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6yr ago

Super

amazing product, congrats team! I'd just want to exit fullscreen but it doesn't look like there is a gesture for this? anyway, super neat!

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7yr ago

Swish

Maker

@christophepas That's actually the only gesture that I'm not quite happy with. Most intuitive should be pinching in, but that should be reserved for close and quit and I did not want to require three pinches for quitting from fullscreen. So to answer your question, you can use the same gestures you use to enter fullscreen — double tap, pinching out and swiping up (no modifier key required to exit).

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7yr ago

yeah, it's great answer, I am clear on how to recover a fullscreen to max window mode @christophepas @chrfyi

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6yr ago

This looks great! But how does the licensing work? Will I have to pay for a license for each device I want to use Swish for?

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7yr ago

Swish

Maker

@jonascisum Licensing for Swish is handled by Paddle, which is the de-facto standard for indie Mac apps. By default, I think, licenses can be activated on 2 devices. Do you need more than that?

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7yr ago

Hi Christian, I bought the app when i was on the last mac update, but have recently upgraded to Catalina OS. Is there support for Catalina yet?

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6yr ago

Swish

Maker

@jlw Works on Catalina! You might have to re-enter your license if you upgrade from Mojave.

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6yr ago

Hey, i've been using this app for a while on my mac book pro, and i thoroughly love it!! However, i'm planning to purchase a logitech mx master 3s, wondering if this app would still work with that ?makers

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5yr ago

@naman_shastri I'm in the exact same situation. Have you tried it out yet?

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5yr ago

Hey, coming from Magnet and using Swish for a second day now, I have to say I’m gradually more impressed by it. In fact, I was about to transition from Magnet to Moom and that’s how I learned about you. The question is: 1. Do you have a roadmap for introducing predefined workspaces as in Moom (i.e. launch a given set of apps and distribute them on screen with a single keystroke)? 2. Also, do you have a solution to trigger certain rules when external displays are connected/disconnected?

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5yr ago

Also, do you plan to add a tab cycling gesture?

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5yr ago

Swish

Maker

@szymon_krzeminski Hi Szymon, I'm glad you're enjoying Swish! 1) There are already multiple apps that do this (Stay, Display Maid, Freeze), so that's not really on the roadmap. 2) What rules would you like to trigger? 3) Not sure how a tab cycling gesture would work? You mean similar to the window cycling gesture for apps?

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5yr ago

This is one of the best apps ever, I only pay for apps that are worth it and my friend your app is one of them, now it joins the group with Alfred and BetterTouchTool, keep going and think about adding more functionality to menubar actions. Also adding active window scrolling similar to Dock (cmd+`) in windows and menubar, imagine scrolling between windows and apps using your swish. I hope you read this and keep up the good work, also if you have a way we can request more features, that would be awesome

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6yr ago

Swish

Maker

@ahmed_elsalahy Hi, thanks for the kind words! You can always shoot me an email at info@highlyopinionated.co or DM me on Twitter. Can you specify what you mean by "active window scrolling"?

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6yr ago

@highlyopinionated @chrfyi Yeah sure, I meant for example, if you have a ton of finder windows open, Instead of snapping it, Imagine I can scroll between them first using a two finger swipes until I find the one I like to snap, it is like doing (cmd +`) for window switching and then snapping, but with your app it would eliminate the need for keyboard action, also if you can mimic (cmd+ tab ) using swishes that would be similar but for apps, so you would switch and then snap, this would make management of all active apps/ windows keyboard free actions.

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6yr ago

Swish

Maker

@ahmed_elsalahy You can already cycle through windows of an application by swiping left and right on the app's dock icon! Switching between apps via the menubar is actually a great idea, so I'll have to see if there is any API for that.

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6yr ago

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Reviewers praise Swish for making trackpad-driven window control feel natural and fast, becoming a daily staple that blends into macOS and boosts focus. Longtime users highlight its stability, light footprint, and thoughtful updates. Power users love the fluid snapping and intuitive gestures, especially on 16:9 displays, though several ask for more flexible grid options (quarters, ultrawide layouts) and modifier reassignment. A few report occasional crashes on newer macOS versions and conflicts with BetterTouchTool, plus slow support responses. Overall sentiment is strongly positive and adoption feels sticky.

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