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TypeJump lives in your menu bar - look for its icon at the top of the screen. The first launch walks you through everything on this page in about a minute.

Open the TypeJump menu any time, from anywhere: tap ⌃⌥ together (Control + Option, no other key). Tap again to close it. Clicking the menu bar icon works too.

Every shortcut you create works system-wide - in any app, at any moment.

TypeJump comes in two editions: Lite (Mac App Store, free forever) covers jumping, hiding, themes, and drag & drop. Pro (direct download from typejump.app) adds Voice Jump, window switching with previews, tab search across browsers, Tap-Tap Capture, and the ⌃⌥ menu - the sections below marked as such apply to Pro.

Press a shortcut - say ⌃C - and you're in that app, file, or folder. If it isn't running, it opens; if it's minimized or buried, it comes to you.

Add your hide modifier to the same shortcut and the app tucks itself away again: ⌃⇧C hides what ⌃C opened. You choose the modifier (⇧, ⌥, or ⌘) in Settings → Behavior.

Open with one hand, hide with the same hand - in and out of anything without ever touching the mouse.

Chrome with four windows? Excel with three workbooks? While the app is already in front, tap its shortcut again (keep ⌃ held): a centered bar appears with a live preview of every window - including windows parked on other Spaces.

Each further tap moves the highlight to the next preview. Release ⌃ and you land in the highlighted window - macOS even switches Spaces for you. A quick double-tap jumps straight to the second window.

The switcher is fully interactive: click any preview to jump there, use ←→ to move, press ↓ on a browser window to see its tabs, or just start typing to search every tab in every window of every browser - Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Brave. ↵ jumps, esc goes back, and clicking anywhere outside simply dismisses it.

Requires the Accessibility permission; live previews additionally use Screen Recording (otherwise you'll see app icons instead). Both are optional - see Permissions.

Double-tap either ⌘ key (left or right, twice, like a double-click). A small pill appears at the bottom of your screen - say where you want to go, and TypeJump takes you there. esc cancels, ↵ or a second double-tap confirms early.

Languages: by default TypeJump listens in your Mac's language and English at the same time and keeps whichever understood you better - mix them freely mid-sentence. Prefer one language? Pick it in Settings → Voice search.

Wrong jump? Teach it. After a voice jump the pill lingers with a small ✎ - click it, type what you actually meant, press ↵. TypeJump jumps there and remembers the correction forever as a vocabulary alias (visible in Settings → Vocabulary). The more you use voice, the better it knows your places: frequent targets are recognized even when mumbled.

If several files share the spoken name, the pill shows a numbered picker with each file's folder - press 1-4 or arrow and ↵.

Privacy: speech is transcribed by macOS entirely on your Mac - it works offline and not a word or sound ever leaves the machine. Voice needs the Microphone and Speech Recognition permissions (asked once, in onboarding or on first use).

Settings opens with "Your time saved": jumps today, this month, all-time, your current streak - and the headline number, the hours of hunting TypeJump replaced (estimated at ~5 seconds per jump versus searching by hand). The menu-bar popover shows the monthly number at a glance.

Cross a milestone - 100 jumps, your first saved hour, 1,000 jumps - and the popover celebrates with a little confetti and a one-tap Share button, if bragging is your thing.

All of it is counted and stored only on your Mac. Nothing is sent anywhere - we couldn't see your numbers if we wanted to.

The fast way - the same gesture, both directions: double-tap ⌃ while the bound app or file is in front. The card shows its current shortcut. Press a new key to reassign, or ⌫ to remove it.

From the menu: open TypeJump (⌃⌥), hover a shortcut, and edit or delete it there - name, target, and keys.

Everything lives in one panel: your shortcut list, adding, editing, and Settings - no extra windows. Open it with ⌃⌥ or a click on the menu-bar icon; press esc or click anywhere else to close it.

In Settings you'll find: appearance & menu-bar icon, launch at login, the hide modifier, the window switcher and quick capture toggles, permissions status, a list of genuinely useful built-in macOS shortcuts, and Import / Export to back up or move your shortcut set to another Mac.

Three looks, applied everywhere - the menu, the window-preview bar, the capture card:

• · Light - clean and bright
• · Dark - calm, flat, neutral
• · Flow - the TypeJump signature: deep glass with the pink-to-gold gradient tracing the edges

Pick your menu-bar icon in Settings too - the TypeJump mark or a handful of alternatives.

A shortcut points at the file itself, not at a window. Close the file, quit the app, even move or rename it - the shortcut follows and simply reopens it.

Only deleting a file retires its jump: TypeJump tells you the target is gone, and you remove the binding with ⌫ or from the menu.