Recognize by sight.
Each Lane gets a name, color, and icon that follows you into the menu bar and Mission Control.
Switch lanes between work contexts on macOS.
macOS gives you ten desktops named Desktop 1 through Desktop 10. Lanes turns each one into a Lane — name, color, icon, automation profile — and lets your Mac configure itself the second you switch in.
14-day free trial · No credit card · macOS 13 Ventura or later
LanesFileEdit
Client Joe
Client JoeFocus BuildClient JoeOps DeskWriting
Cmd - Gjoe
Focus BuildXcode, Terminal
Client JoeFigma, Safari
Ops DeskMail, Slack
WritingNotes, Preview
On enterClient Joe
Focus on
Dock hidden
Open folder
SwitchApply profile
Switch with one keystroke.
Quick Switcher with live previews, search highlight, number-key jumps, and a conflict-aware default shortcut.
Configures itself on enter.
Appearance, Focus, Dock, apps, project folder, and mute state can belong to the Lane you just entered.
Everyday switching
The Quick Switcher you will use a hundred times a day.
Open it with Command-G from anywhere. Filter by typing, jump by number, and preview each Lane's recent apps before you commit.
Daily driver
Quick Switcher with live preview
Press ⌃⌘G from any app. The switcher shows every Lane with color, icon, recent apps, and active automations. Type to filter, arrow-key to navigate, press ↵ to commit, rename inline, or snapshot the current Lane's apps as a reusable preset.
At a glance
Menu bar chip you can spot fast
Your current Lane lives in the menu bar as a colored pill. The color is the identity, so you do not need to open Mission Control just to understand where you are.
Ships today
Per-Lane automations run the second you enter
Each Lane can mute audio, switch Light or Dark appearance, toggle Focus through a Shortcut you create once, auto-hide the Dock, launch apps, and open a project folder. Toggling an automation applies it immediately so you can preview the behavior.
Billable hours
Per-app time tracking with idle detection
Lanes counts time per Lane, breaks it down by app, pauses when you walk away from the keyboard, and exports per-session CSV for billable work without becoming a separate timer app.
Setup confidence
Setup Health tells you when macOS settings drift
Accessibility, auto-rearrange Spaces, and Space reader access are visible checks, not hidden troubleshooting notes. Lanes tells you exactly what broke and where to fix it.
Conflict-aware defaults
Shortcuts that do not fight your other apps
Lanes defaults to ⌃⌘G because ⌘0 is reset zoom across browsers, IDEs, design tools, and document apps. The recorder warns before saving bindings that conflict with Spotlight, the emoji picker, Command-number tab switching, or system text editing.
Pricing
Try Lanes free for 14 days.
The planned launch offer is the full app with no feature gating: $4.99 monthly or $49 yearly.
Monthly
$4.99/month
Try it out. Cancel anytime.
- Full app, all features
- 2 Macs per license
- All future updates
- Cancel anytime
Yearly
$49/year
About $4.08 per month.
- Everything in Monthly
- Save about 18%
- Best for long-term workflows
Direct distributionDeveloper ID plannedNo SIP changesData stays local
FAQ
Questions, plainly answered.
Can I name my Mac desktops?
Not natively. macOS calls them Desktop 1 through Desktop 10 and has no built-in rename option. Lanes adds custom names, colors, and SF Symbol icons that follow you into the menu bar and Mission Control.
How do I see my Space names in Mission Control?
Lanes overlays your custom labels on top of every Mission Control thumbnail. The labels use the color and icon you assigned each Lane. No SIP changes, no Dock injection.
What's the fastest way to switch between Mac desktops?
Lanes Quick Switcher, Command-G, lets you pick by typing a name, pressing a number key, or using the arrow keys. It is useful once you have more than three or four Spaces.
How do I stop Mac Spaces from rearranging themselves?
Open System Settings, go to Desktop & Dock, scroll to Mission Control, and turn off Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use. Lanes Setup Health flags this setting if it turns back on.
Can I run things automatically when I switch to a Space?
Yes. Lanes lets each Lane carry an automation profile for appearance, mute, Focus, Dock auto-hide, app launch, and project-folder opening, then runs it when you enter.
Is Lanes available on the Mac App Store?
No. Lanes depends on private macOS Spaces APIs, so it is distributed directly with Developer ID signing and notarization rather than through the Mac App Store.
Get Lanes
Stop counting desktops. Recognize them.
The Wysp product route for Lanes is ready now. The macOS binary and checkout link can be connected here when the launch build is signed and published.
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