About Macarte
About Macarte
- About Macarte - the Mac App
- The story behind Macarte
- Apps & Services used to make Macarte & the website
- Version History / Releases
- Press & Press-Kits
Macarte is available from the Mac App Store
Macarte is a simple utility for Apple Macintosh (Mac) computers which allows you to switch between running applications (Apps) by choosing which you want to use from a menu.
Macarte adds an icon to the Mac's Menu Bar which runs across the top of the screen.
The icon shown is the icon of the currently active application. Clicking on the icon presents a menu with some simple options which affect the currently active application, one more submenus for additional options and tools, along with Preferences to configure Macarte, and an alphabetical list of running applications.
The currently active application is marked with a tick, unless it is not the type of application which would appear in the macOS Dock, in which case no application is shown ticked.
Choosing an Application from the list causes the menu to disappear and that Application to become the active application.
Macarte core functionality of App Switching & Hide/Show App controls is inspired by and based upon the "MultiFinder" work in MacOS System software prior to MacOS X / macOS, specifically System 7.
Colin Bradley
Dolan O' Toole, Horace Bell-Gam
Rita, Dolan, Horace and everyone who has helped or supported along the way.
A big thank you to Phil Goldman, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Horn, Bud Tribble, Bill Atkinson, Susan Kare and the rest of the Macintosh Team for all your work, creativity & ingenuity in the original Mac and Mac OS System Software and your later works.
Also of course a big thanks to the teams at Apple past and present, who make macOS a great user and developer platform.