TabLauncher Lite keeps your favorite apps, files, folders and web pages one flick of the mouse away — organized in colorful tabs that sit quietly on any edge of your screen until you need them. It's the free way to fall in love with TabLauncher: everything you need to launch faster, with up to three tabs.
Version 3 is a complete visual rebirth. Tabs used to be static — now they are living, organic shapes you can sculpt. Pick a preset like Classic, Pill or Wave, or open the Shape Studio and drag the curves yourself. Paint each tab with multi-color gradients and outlines, and watch everything move with fluid animations — tabs morph open and closed, icons glide apart to welcome a drop. The whole launcher feels alive.
DESIGN IT YOUR WAY
•Sculpt the exact shape of your tabs: corners, shoulders, curves — every dot and tangent is draggable.
•Gradients with as many color stops as you like, plus ready-made recipes based on your tab color.
•Outline strokes, shadows, transparency, fonts and label styles — make it blend with your desktop or stand out.
•Five hand-tuned shape presets to start from, and your own presets to save and reuse.
STAY ORGANIZED
•Up to three tabs, on any edge of any screen; every screen edge remembers its own layout — including a gap for the camera housing on modern MacBooks.
•Special tabs: currently running apps, recently modified files, real folders that stay in sync, and a music player for your files and internet radio.
•Import your Dock in one click — apps, folders, web links, even the spacers.
•Window previews when you hover a running app's icon.
•Drag anything in: apps, documents, folders, web pages.
MAKE IT WORK LIKE YOU DO
•Choose how the launcher opens: rest or touch the pointer at the edge, hover a tab, click, or keep it always open.
•Choose how it closes: after a delay you set, or when you click an icon, a tab, or anywhere outside.
•Auto-hide completely, leaving elegant gradient markers where your tabs sleep.
•Global keyboard shortcuts for any item, custom AppleScripts per icon, and system-event triggers (wake, login, timers) to launch or quit apps automatically.
•Fully scriptable with AppleScript.
Light on resources, heavy on personality. Need more than three tabs? The full version of TabLauncher removes the limit — and your Lite setup carries over.
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OK App for free
nTcMastering
The app is ok for a free app, In the lite version you are limited to 3 Tabs, I personally like Dag Thing .
Developer Response
Thanks for the honest take! Lite is still free with every feature of the full version (three tabs), and it just got the biggest update in its history: version 3.0 — sculptable tab shapes, gradients, fluid animations, rebuilt for current macOS. If you loved DragThing, this version is much closer to what you're missing.
Great App but Auto Hide Does Not Work
Siphtor
The auto hide feature doesn’t seem to work. You can click the auto hide menu option and it will hide but the auto hide menu option doesn’t stay checked. Once you click on the tabs the auto hide feature stops working.Edit: The auto hide does work but not on the left side of the screen. This may have to do with have a second display.
Developer Response
Thanks for updating your review with the detective work! Screen-edge behavior — including auto-hide and multi-display setups — was completely reworked in version 3.0, the biggest update in the app's history: every screen edge now remembers its own layout. If the left edge still misbehaves on your second display, tell us at info@oktoid.org.
Tablauncher
Mush.z
I downloaded it already but the app it doesnt open with me ? is there any technical issue???? I want this app to work with me
Developer Response
Sorry the app wouldn't open for you — that era had real problems on newer macOS. Version 3.0 just landed: the biggest update in the app's history, rebuilt for current macOS. Please give it another try, and if it still won't start, email us at info@oktoid.org — we'll get you running.
Loved this before but....
Anmlprht
purchased for new computer and it doesn't install.
Developer Response
Sorry about that — the app had fallen behind newer macOS at the time. It's back now: version 3.0 is the biggest update in its history, rebuilt for current macOS. If it still gives you trouble on your Mac, write us at info@oktoid.org and we'll sort it out.
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• Bug fixes.
Version 3.2.2
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Information
Seller
Mio Hamano
Size
5.9 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
Languages
English and 6 more
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