Press kit
Everything you need to write about Spacepal. For a free review license or questions, email support@getspacepal.com.
Fact sheet
| Product | Spacepal |
|---|---|
| What it is | A Mac menu bar app that gives every macOS Space a name, a colour and a live preview, and lets you switch, search and move windows between Spaces from one overview. |
| Category | macOS Spaces manager (virtual desktop manager for Mac) |
| Developer | Dan Bayer |
| Company | Halberd LLC |
| Platform | macOS 14 Sonoma and later, Apple silicon and Intel |
| Price | $9.99 one-time at launch (regular $12.99), up to three Macs, 14-day free trial. See pricing. |
| Website | getspacepal.com |
| Press contact | support@getspacepal.com |
Short description
Spacepal gives every Mac desktop a name, a colour and a live preview. Press ⌥Tab to see all your Spaces at once, jump to any of them without the slide animation, and find or move any window from one place.
Long description
macOS calls its virtual desktops "Desktop 1, 2, 3" and gives you no way to tell them apart. Spacepal is a menu bar app that fixes that. Each Space gets a name, a colour and an icon that show in the menu bar and in an overview opened with ⌥Tab, with live previews of what is on each one. Switching is instant, without the Mission Control slide, and System Integrity Protection stays on.
Beyond names, Spacepal searches windows across all Spaces, moves windows between them, opens a project's apps when you enter a Space, saves whole sets of names as profiles, and connects to Raycast, Shortcuts, AppleScript and a URL scheme. It works with the native macOS Spaces, so quitting it leaves everything as it was. It is not a tiling window manager.
Key features
- Names, colours and icons for every Space, shown in the menu bar.
- An overview of all Spaces with live previews, grouped by display (⌥Tab).
- Instant switching without the slide animation, with SIP left on.
- Window search across all Spaces (⌃⌥F).
- Move windows between Spaces; automations that open apps and URLs on entering a Space.
- Profiles and templates to set up several Spaces at once.
- Raycast extension, Shortcuts, AppleScript,
spacepal://URL scheme, and astate.jsonfile for tools like SketchyBar.
One limitation, stated on every page: moving windows that are not in front works on macOS 14.0 to 14.4 and on macOS 26.4 and later only. See Move windows.
Assets
You may use these in coverage of Spacepal.
- App icon (PNG)
- Screenshot: the overview of all Spaces (JPG) and screen recording (MP4)
- Screenshot: window search across Spaces (JPG) and screen recording (MP4)
The screenshots use sample data from Spacepal's demo mode. Need a different size or a specific screen? Email us.
About Halberd LLC
Halberd LLC is the company that makes and sells Spacepal. More on the company page.
Written by Dan Bayer, developer of Spacepal. Last updated 2026-10-28.