V3.2.2 Group Window Layouts

18 Oct 2026

What’s new in 3.2.2:

Window layouts for App Groups in TabLauncher Pro: each group can now remember a window layout of its own. Arrange the group’s windows and choose “Save Window Layout” from the group’s menu — clicking the group then puts every window back at that size and position, even windows that are already on screen. The same window can have a different size in each group, and a window you add to a group starts out where it was when you added it. Layouts are kept separately for each set of displays

TabLauncher Pro now includes the extra built-in scripts the App Store versions can’t run, such as ejecting disks and shutting down the Mac

Web-address icons can now open in the browser of your choice: pick it under “Set to Open With” in the icon’s menu

A tab moved to another side of the screen keeps its rows and the arrangement of its items

A tab dragged to an empty edge of the screen keeps all its settings

In a tab with several rows, items you add land in the row where you drop them or where you clicked

Tabs on the top or right edge no longer block clicks on the desktop right after they close

Links dragged in from Safari keep their exact web address

Web-address icons no longer disappear when you drag them

Script icons made from a built-in script you haven’t changed now run its latest version

Testing a script in Preferences now also shows errors that happen while it runs

If an item’s file has been moved to the Trash, clicking it now tells you it can’t be found, instead of asking for access to a folder

TabLauncher no longer hangs when you quit it or load a backup right after a tab closes

TabLauncher uses less energy while its tabs are closed

V3.2.1 Recent Items

3 Oct 2026

What’s new in 3.2.1:

Recent Items: a Recently Modified tab can now show your recent applications, documents or servers instead of a folder — like Recent Items in the Apple menu, always one move away. Pick it with the new “Show:” menu when you add the tab, or later in the tab’s Special options

In the App Store versions, the first Recent Documents tab asks once for access to your Home folder, so it can see what you open

Fixed: after waking from sleep, the tabs could disappear until TabLauncher was restarted

Folder contents menus are now sorted the way the Finder sorts them in the App Store versions too (TabLauncher Pro has had it since 3.2.0.1)

More items are now translated

V3.2.0.1 TabLauncher Pro

27 Sep 2026

What’s new in TabLauncher Pro 3.2.0.1:

Fixed: Folder Contents menus could list their items in a jumbled order — they now follow the same order as the Finder

This update is for TabLauncher Pro; the App Store versions get the fix with their next update

V3.2 App Groups

26 Sep 2026

What’s new in 3.2:

App Groups: drag an item onto another one and hold it there for a moment, and the two become a group; drop more items onto it to add them. One click on the group opens everything in it — your whole project in one go

Right-click an empty spot of the tab for “New Group from Apps on This Screen”; a group gets an “Add Apps on This Screen” command of its own

Edit a group in its options: reorder the members, take one out (it goes back to the tab), or ungroup everything

TabLauncher Pro: groups hold windows, not just apps. “New Group from Windows on This Screen” and “Add Windows on This Screen” collect the actual windows. A group finds them again even after the app or the Mac restarts, and reopens a closed window’s document

TabLauncher Pro: a group can minimize every other window on its screen before bringing its own forward, and windows sitting on another display come over to the launcher’s screen

Rearranging icons feels like on the iPhone now

A Body Padding slider in the Appearance Studio sets the side margins around the icons — tighten them, or let the icons overhang the body

Fixed: on macOS 27, TabLauncher could fail to open for some people

TabLauncher now requires macOS 12 or later

V3.1.2 Drag & Drop fixes

14 Aug 2026

What’s new in 3.1.2:

Dropping a file onto an app icon opens the file with that app again, and dropping it onto a folder icon sends it into the folder — instead of just adding the file to the tab

The Windows tab’s “App icons instead of previews” option no longer hides when Screen Recording permission is missing — it’s exactly the mode that needs no captures

V3.1.1 Polish

1 Aug 2026

What’s new in 3.1.1:

Item names no longer blink out while you move the pointer between icons — the name hands straight over to the next item

Hovering a tab now works anywhere on the tab, not only over its title

Preferences > Tabs > Icons: the Position, Size and Spacing sliders now follow the tab you have selected

Window previews are steadier, including a fix for a crash

The Windows tab — the special tab that lists the windows of every running app — is now a TabLauncher Pro feature. Only an app outside the sandbox can bring another app’s window forward, so adding one moved to Pro, the free companion for TabLauncher customers (see the PRO section on the TabLauncher page). There, clicking a window raises it instantly through the Accessibility API, tabbed-away windows included

App icons instead of previews — a Windows tab option, at Add Special Tabs > Windows and on the Special pane of a tab you already have: each window shows its app’s icon instead of a live thumbnail, so the tab takes no screen captures at all and the recording indicator stays off

V3.1 Rows & Free docking

28 Jul 2026

What’s new in 3.1:

Multiple rows of icons — give the launcher up to 6 rows with the new Rows slider in Preferences > Body, and drag any icon onto any row

Free item docking — the new Items option (Centered / Free, also in Preferences > Body) lets you place icons on any spot of the grid, iOS style; the tab grows and shrinks to fit your arrangement

When a tab outgrows the screen, the scroll wheel pans the items

Other layout fixes

V3.0.1 Fixes

25 Jul 2026

What’s new in 3.0.1:

Upgrading from version 2 now brings your tabs and settings over automatically

If 3.0 already greeted you with default tabs, don’t worry — your old setup was never deleted: open Preferences > General and press Load, then choose your old settings folder to bring everything back