How Mac power users use Spaces in 2026

Ten short questions, about two minutes. We will publish the results here, with the raw counts, once 100 people have answered.

1. How many desktops (Spaces) do you use on a normal day? 1 2 to 3 4 to 6 7 to 10 11 or more

2. How many displays, including the built-in one? 1 2 3 or more It changes (laptop plugged in sometimes)

3. How do you organize your desktops? (pick any) One per project or client One per kind of app (code, browser, chat) Work and personal apart Fixed order I memorized No real system

4. How do you usually switch desktops? (pick any) Trackpad swipe ⌃← / ⌃→ ⌃1, ⌃2 … shortcuts Mission Control ⌘Tab to an app and let macOS jump A third-party tool

5. What bothers you most about Spaces? (pick up to three) Desktops have no names The slide animation is slow I lose track of which window is where macOS reorders my desktops Windows scatter when I plug or unplug a monitor Layout is gone after a restart Moving windows between desktops is clumsy Nothing really

6. Which tools do you use with Spaces or windows? (e.g. Raycast, yabai, AeroSpace, Rectangle, BetterTouchTool)

7. Which macOS version are you on? macOS 14 Sonoma macOS 15 Sequoia macOS 26 Tahoe Older

8. What do you mostly do on your Mac? Software development Design Video, audio or streaming Business, writing or research Studying Other

9. If you could change one thing about Spaces, what would it be? (optional) 10. Email, if you want the results (optional, used only to send the report, never published)

Answers are anonymous. We store your answers and your country. Your IP address is not stored; a one-way hash of it is kept for a day to stop repeat submissions. If you leave an email, it is kept apart from the published data and used once, to send the results.

Methodology

We share this survey on r/macapps, Hacker News, X and the Raycast community, and link it from this site. Repeat submissions from the same connection are limited. When 100 or more responses are in, we publish every question with raw counts and percentages, the dates the survey ran and where people came from, on this page. The people who answer are Mac users who found a survey about Spaces, so the results describe them, not all Mac users. We make Spacepal, a Spaces tool; we will say so next to the results and will not drop questions whose answers we do not like.

Written by Dan Bayer, developer of Spacepal. Last updated 2026-10-28.