SpeedySpaces

Give your Spaces names, icons and shortcuts: in the menu bar, in Mission Control, and under a hotkey.

Your Spaces, named and iconed on Mission Control's own thumbnails
The menu bar strip: every Space as an icon, the current one lit
The menu: jump to any Space by name, icon or shortcut
The switcher: hold ⌃ and the whole set of Spaces appears
Rename a Space, pick an SF Symbol or emoji, record a shortcut
Shortcuts for every Space, plus move-window and display hotkeys
01 / 06Your Spaces, named and iconed on Mission Control's own thumbnails

Names and Icons

Rename any Space and give it an SF Symbol or emoji. Names are keyed to the window server’s stable Space ID, so they survive reboots and reordering.

Mission Control Labels

Your names and icons render on Apple’s real Mission Control thumbnails, above the untouched “Desktop N” caption. Click a label to rename that Space on the spot.

Menu Bar Strip

Show the current Space’s icon, name or number, or a full strip with one clickable segment per Space. Multi-display aware.

The Switcher

A wallpaper-thumbnail HUD that appears when you change Spaces or while you hold a key, in full-width Mission Control style or as a compact popover.

Drag to Reorder

Drag switcher tiles to reorder Spaces, even across displays, with no Mission Control flash. Drop a window onto a tile to send it there.

Hotkeys

Per-Space global hotkeys, a modifier-plus-number scheme kept in sync with System Settings, back-and-forth, and opt-in wrap-around.

Move Windows Between Spaces

Send the focused window to another Space and follow it, via a server-side drag that works on off-screen and toolbar-heavy windows.

Automation

Six Shortcuts actions, a speedyspaces:// URL scheme, and a CLI: the app binary doubles as a command-line tool. Names, icons and settings export to JSON.

Privacy

Zero network access. Names and icons live in one JSON file in your Library folder.

Accessibility is used for switching, hotkey actions and window moves. Screen Recording is requested only the first time you move a window between Spaces, because the window server refuses the hand-off without it; the app never captures screen content. It edits your macOS Spaces shortcuts only when you ask it to.

Requirements

Platforms
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later
Permissions
Accessibility · Screen Recording for window moves
Network
None
Distribution
GitHub Releases · notarized .dmg

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