macOS · trackpad · app switching
Put three fingers on the trackpad and turn your wrist. A wheel of your apps appears at the pointer, the needle follows your hand, and every app clicks as you pass it. Lift your fingers and you are there.
Three simple moves
Your thumb stays put as the pivot, index and middle finger rest beside it. The fingers have to lie still for a moment before rotation starts counting — that catches swipes in the sieve, so the wheel stays away when you only meant to scroll.
Every 12 degrees of hand rotation moves the selection by one app and the trackpad clicks. The resting position is in the middle, so you can go both ways and the furthest app is 36 degrees of wrist away — not 180.
The chosen app comes forward, even when it is hidden or minimised. The wheel disappears. If you change your mind, run to the end of the arc and lift your hand there.
The grip collides with no macOS system gesture. The thresholds were measured on one hand; if the gesture does not fit yours, the settings show live where your hand is and where the threshold sits.
New looks
The look changes only how the switcher appears. The positions, the assigned apps and the gesture stay the same — the same turn of your hand picks the same app in every look.
App cards stand in a row in 3D. The front card faces you and comes forward, the side cards turn away and step back, with a soft reflection beneath. No frame, no plate — the cards float in space, each on its own shadow.
Wide cards — icon on the left, name on the right — lie one above another along an arc, like a wheel in space. The chosen card sits in the middle and nearest; the further ones curve away to the left and shrink.
Each step springs into place. When the switcher appears, the cards unfold from the middle; when you lift your fingers, the others draw a breath and fall in behind the app you chose.
The original wheels are still in the app, under Legacy looks.
Other designs coming soon.
Settings
Detail settings
One click on Detail settings opens every knob of the look, with the look itself running live above them. Nothing to save and nothing to restart — what you move is what you get the next time your fingers land.
Settings are stored in a readable JSON file, not in system preferences. It can be opened, diffed and edited by hand.
The paid version
Everything below is what a licence unlocks. The free version keeps working for as long as you like — it just holds fewer apps and leaves out Wheel Flow.
The free version gives you four. Pro fills the whole arc, so the apps you switch between all day are one turn away.
Wheel Flow, and the looks still in the works as they arrive. Free keeps Cover Flow and the legacy looks.
One licence covers a laptop and a desktop. You can see both in the app and disconnect either one yourself.
Thresholds, the detent, how far the wheel turns per app. Set it once to your own hand.
The gesture is read through a private framework Apple can change with any release. Keeping that working is what the subscription pays for.
Per-app profiles, a second gesture and actions beyond switching are planned. They land in Pro as they arrive.
Pricing
Every install starts with a full 30-day trial — no account, no card. When it ends the app does not stop: it drops to the free version and stays there.
$0
for as long as you like
Your setup is never erased. Pay later and it comes back exactly as you left it.
$19 / year
about $1.58 a month
Cancel whenever; it stays Pro until the period you paid for runs out.
$2.99 / month
same features, more flexibility
The yearly plan works out cheaper if you keep it past a year.
Prices in US dollars, VAT added at checkout according to your country. Sold by Paddle, who handle payment, invoicing and tax. Buying is not possible yet — the app is still in development.
Measured, not guessed
The trackpad measures 156 × 96 mm, but the coordinates it reports run 0–1 on both axes. Computing the angle from those would mean the same turn of the hand moves the selection by one app at one wrist angle and by three at another — an error of up to 11 degrees. Mac Control Wheel converts the touches to millimetres first and computes the angle only then. It reads the sensor's size from the device, so this holds for an external Magic Trackpad too.
Rotations, swipes, pinches, scrolling and dragging are recorded as a corpus of frames and replayed through the recognizer as tests. The ranges come from there: a real rotation slides the hand across the pad by at most 1.5 mm, the lightest swipe by 2.2 mm. The threshold sits in that gap, not in the middle of guesswork.
The list of apps does not reshuffle between invocations. If the order changed, so would the movement needed to reach a given app — and the muscle memory the whole wheel exists for would have nothing to stand on.
What the app sees
Where it is