Press one key. See every window of the apps you actually live in, as live previews: browsers, Photoshop and the Adobe suite, Terminal, Finder, and more. Jump straight to the one you meant.
Browsers, the Adobe suite, Office, iWork, Mail, Preview, your code editors, Terminal, and Finder come curated out of the box, and the roster keeps growing.
Safari
ChromeEEdgeBBraveAArc
Firefox
Finder
Terminal
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Acrobat
Pages
Numbers
Keynote
Preview
MailWWordEExcelPPowerPoint
VS Code
Figma
Xcode
Cursor
Obsidian
Sketch
Affinity
TextEdit+Add any app · coming soon! 🎉Support runs in honest tiers: full page-level detail for browsers, document-level magic for Adobe, live previews and titles for everything else. The FAQ has the fine print.
⌘Tab shows apps, not windows. Every browser window collapses into one icon, every PSD hides as a tab, every Finder and Terminal window blurs together. You can picture exactly the window you need, and macOS gives you no way to see it. Canopy CMD gives every window its own face.
Every window is a real snapshot — even minimized ones macOS won't show you. Recognize your work at a glance, not by truncated titles.
Browsers, the Adobe suite, Office, Terminal, and Finder — each in its own labeled section with filter tabs. Not every dialog on your Mac.
Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat hide documents as tabs. Canopy gives each its own card — something no generic switcher can.
⌘` cycles windows blindly. Canopy makes it visual and scoped to your current app, so one press still hops to the next.
Just start typing to filter by title, domain, URL, or profile. "sla" finds Slack before you finish the word.
Safari Profiles show as colored badges, so Work and Personal windows are tellable apart at a glance.
Every window from the apps you actually work in, laid out by app, filtered with one key.
Four PSDs, two Illustrator files, a Figma tab in Chrome, reference windows everywhere. Canopy lays them out as artwork, not filenames, and switches Adobe tabs like they were windows all along.
Terminal sessions, localhost tabs, docs, staging, production. Canopy shows each window with its path or URL, so you never paste into the wrong environment again.
Client dashboards, analytics, campaign docs, and a dozen Finder windows of assets. Filter by app, type three letters, land exactly where you meant to.
In some forests, neighboring trees grow almost together, but never touch. Thin channels of sky separate each crown, so every tree stays distinct. Botanists call it crown shyness.
Your browser windows deserve the same courtesy. macOS crushes them into a single icon; Canopy CMD gives each one space to be seen.
An app about giving your windows room to breathe should help real forests do the same.
For every copy of Canopy CMD sold, we set aside $1 and donate it quarterly to One Tree Planted. No upsell, no opt-in. It's simply built into the price. The canopy grows a little every time someone finds their window.
No account, no analytics, no telemetry, no page content ever read, no browsing history collected. The only time Canopy touches the network is to check your license — when you unlock a key and once a day after, sending just the key and an anonymous device ID so your seats stay honest. Nothing else ever leaves your Mac.
Canopy CMD launches November 1, 2026. Until then the beta is open and free through October 31 — full access, no charge. Launch pricing will be $9.99 for the first week, then $19.99, with a 14-day fully-functional trial. Beta testers get founding pricing before anyone else.
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel. It's a tiny menu bar app. It needs one permission — Accessibility — to list and focus your windows. Screen Recording (for live previews) and a per-browser Automation permission (for tab titles and URLs) are both optional: skip them and Canopy shows clean labeled tiles instead, never seeing your screen. The setup assistant walks you through it.
No — Canopy never records or streams anything. To draw the little window previews it takes an occasional still snapshot of your own app windows, kept only on your Mac and never uploaded. And it's optional: decline macOS Screen Recording and Canopy runs perfectly with clean labeled tiles instead, so on a locked-down work Mac you can use it without granting any screen access at all.
Browsers: Safari, Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, and Arc get the full experience with URLs, domains, and tab counts; Firefox shows previews and titles. Creative: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat, with every document as its own card, tabs included. Plus Terminal, Finder (with folder paths), and iWork. Every app has its own toggle in Settings, and the list keeps growing.
AltTab and Contexts are excellent general switchers — if you want every window of every app, they do that brilliantly. Canopy goes deeper for the specific pro apps you live in: it understands what your windows are, with page URLs, folder paths, Safari profiles, and Adobe documents that generic switchers cannot even see as separate windows. They coexist happily; Canopy doesn't touch ⌘Tab.
The App Store sandbox forbids the system APIs any real window switcher needs (the same reason AltTab, Contexts, and Bartender are sold directly). Canopy CMD is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens with a normal double-click.
No. Canopy is idle until you press the shortcut. No background polling, nothing injected into your apps, no content read. Previews refresh when the switcher opens.