macOS 13 and later

Say the name.
You're on that desktop.

macOS has let you make desktops for fifteen years and never let you name one. DeskSay names them, then gets you there by voice, by typing, or by a single key. About 200 milliseconds, no sliding animation.

14 days, every feature, no card. Then $8.99 once, for up to 3 Macs.

Design
Listening…
Say a desktop name
or press 12345 to switch

Which one had your email in it?

You built four desktops so work would stay in one place and everything else in another. Then macOS numbered them and you went back to swiping past all of them to find the one you wanted.

Desktop 1Desktop 2Desktop 3Desktop 4Desktop 5Desktop 6

Five ways in. All faster than swiping.

Use whichever suits the moment. They all land on the same desktop in about the same time.

Say it

Press ⌥Space, say “Design”, and you are there. Recognition runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded and it works with the network off.

Type it

Press ⌘0, type two or three letters, press . Press ⌘0 twice to jump back to where you were.

One key each

Give any desktop its own shortcut. Useful for the two or three you live in all day.

Hover the notch

Rest the pointer on the camera notch and every desktop appears in a strip. Other displays get a small bar at the top. Click one to switch.

Drag a window over

Hold while dragging a window and the desktops appear. Move sideways to choose one, let go, and the window comes with you.

Names in Mission Control

Open Mission Control and your names sit on the desktops themselves, which is the fastest way to see the whole layout.

This is what macOS shows you today, with the names added. DeskSay draws them over Mission Control's own row, so the desktop you want is the one you can read.

Then it gets out of the way.

The rest is there when you want it, and invisible when you do not.

Where the day went

Time per desktop and per app, with idle time kept separate. Export it as CSV when a client asks.

A note per desktop

Each desktop can hold a floating note with checklists. Dock it to the side of the screen when you want it out of sight.

Automations

Open the apps and folders a desktop needs when you arrive, and tidy up when you leave. Or run a group on demand.

Fast, and quiet about it.

Switching skips the macOS slide animation, so a desktop change takes about 200 milliseconds instead of most of a second. Speech recognition runs entirely on your Mac using the engine macOS already ships, so your voice never leaves the machine and no account is involved.

Multiple displays each keep their own desktops, and DeskSay switches them independently.

Switch time~200 ms
Voice recognitionon device
Network neededno
Download sizeabout 6 MB
Written inSwift

One payment. Three Macs.

Try everything for two weeks. If it earns its place, buy it once and stop thinking about it.

After the trial, DeskSay keeps every name, note and record. Switching continues at 30 a month until you buy a licence.

DeskSay 1.0
$8.99

Paid once. No subscription.

  • Use it on up to 3 Macs
  • 14-day trial with every feature, no card
  • All 1.x updates included
  • Direct download, notarised by Apple
Start the 14-day trial

Questions

Does my voice go anywhere?

No. Recognition uses the on-device speech engine built into macOS. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and DeskSay works with the network switched off.

Does it work with more than one display?

Yes. Each display keeps its own desktops, and DeskSay names and switches them separately. Say a name and the display your pointer is on changes.

Why is it not on the Mac App Store?

Reading and changing desktops needs access the App Store sandbox does not permit. DeskSay is sold directly and is notarised by Apple, so it opens normally.

What happens when the trial ends?

Nothing is deleted. Names, notes, automations and time records stay, and you keep 30 switches a month until you buy a licence.

Do I need a microphone?

No. Voice is one of five ways to switch. The Quick Switcher, per-desktop shortcuts, the notch strip and window dragging all work without a microphone, and without granting microphone access.

Which versions of macOS are supported?

macOS 13 Ventura and later, on Apple silicon and Intel.