This is a decent app with a nice amount of operational flexibility that does what’s it’s designed to do pretty well. The only issue is that it has become, in recent years, rather unstable. I used the Lite version for several years without a problem but recently it began to frequently crash, seemingly at random. And by “crash” I mean, after waking the computer from sleep, the tabs disappear from my desktop and won’t reopen until I reboot the entire computer (or log out and log back in). When this started happening several times a day, I got frustrated and purchased the full version -even though I don’t need the full features- in hopes that it would prove to be more stable and for a few weeks it appeared to be, but now this version too is beginning to crash with increasing frequency. I like this app a lot and with the demise of DragThing have come to rely on it so I’m hoping an update will eventually be released, one that is more compatible with the current MAC OS.

I have loved this little utility for years. Colour-coded tabs for different types of applications is exactly what my brain wants. It was also incredibly easy to customize so that I could make finding and launching applications work the way that my brain works. I perhaps didn't appreciate HOW easy it was to use until suddenly it wasn't. Specifically, when I switched to a new computer that came with Venture pre-installed, I found that I could no longer just add and remove things from the Tab Launcher tabs by drag-and-drop. Some applications would, with some futzing, finally land in the bar, but others would just create an Alias on my desktop behind the bar, no matter what system/security settings I adjusted nor what extra keys I held down (I had some luck with Command-dragging, but only some!) I really hate to abandon this app, but it hasn't been updated in so long, I feel abandoned by it. I hope the developer will revisit it some day, at which point I'll happily revisit this review and hopefully feel I can give Tab Launcher the five stars that it once deserved!

I got this application to replace DragThing, which will apparently not be updated for the 64-bit world. It was quite frustrating to set up - it kept expanding to cover the left corner of the menu bar (on HIgh Sierra); the suggested fix to adjust the size is to shrink the size of the icons, which didn’t work for me. As noted elsewhere, there’s no onvious way to get support for the application. Now that I have it set up, though, I”m quite happy with it - I shrink a bit with fear eery time I add a new icon to a tab, though.srb

UPDATE..- Developer is friendly & responsive. He was unable to replicate issue I was having with the Special-Tabs feature. Could be a function of something else I’m running (I’ve got a lot of third-party system tools)- The preference settings related to tab behavior are still a little confusing to me, but with some trial and error I have configured my multi-tab dock so I don’t accidently switch between tabs. - After over a month of use I’m hooked on this dock alternative and have increase my review to 4.5 stars (rounded up).ORIG REVIEW..Love this tool. Will give it 5-stars if a few bugs get resolved. 1.) There’s a memory leak associated with one or more of the ‘special tabs’. These tabs can be enabled in the preferences (one shows all running apps, another tab shows all open windows, etc). These are neat features but I experience a severe memory leak when using them. I can watch the memory used by this app go from 50MB to over 900MB using Apple’s Activity Monitor application. Within a day I get a message from OSX telling me that the system has run out of memory & prompting me to force quit some applications. 2.) If you organize your apps into multiple tabs, moving between them is a little wonky. I frequently, accidently switch tabs when the mouse passes over the tab even though I have ‘Wait to switch tabs’ preference set to the longest time (click to switch tabs). I would love to be able to force the app to only switch tabs if I click on the tab, but even with the associated prefence set the tabs still switch on mouse hover some of the time.