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Powerspaces makes macOS Spaces work like real virtual desktops.

A dock per desktop. Apps that open where you are instead of yanking you elsewhere. Per-desktop ⌘-Tab. It augments Spaces rather than replacing them, so your gestures and Mission Control keep working.

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the per-desktop dock and smart launch in action

On every desktop

  • A dock showing only what is open here
  • Smart launch that never jumps you away
  • Per-desktop ⌘-Tab, set up in one click
  • App Launcher, plus a Raycast extension

Across your screens

  • An independent dock on every monitor
  • Choose which screens get one
  • Hides the macOS Dock for you

Make it yours

  • Dock position, size, colour, auto-hide
  • Per-app new-window rules
  • Launch at login
  • A powerspaces command line tool

Without Powerspaces

  • Click a Dock icon → yanked to another desktop, mid-screen-share.
  • Search in Spotlight → activates the copy living somewhere else.
  • ⌘-Tab → cycles every window on every desktop.

With Powerspaces

  • Focus the app if it's already here, otherwise open a new window here.
  • App Launcher + Raycast extension open apps on this desktop.
  • AltTab configured in one click: this desktop’s windows only.
  • Augments Spacesgestures & Mission Control keep working
  • Accessibility onlyno SIP, no kexts, no screen recording
  • Native Swifttiny, free, GPL-3.0
  • Notarizedsigned by Apple, opens instantly