What changed

1.1.2 · 7 September 2026

• The tile lost its name after a desktop switch or a docking change. Doorplate judged “the menu bar has no room” from a visibility flag that also blinks off for an instant on every desktop switch and while a display comes up, so the tile shrank to its icon and stayed that way. It now watches for the one sure sign, macOS parking the tile off screen, looks twice before shrinking, tries the full name again after a display change, and drops the icon-only fallback the moment you change the menu bar style.

1.1.1 · 7 September 2026

• The transparent color was hard to hit. The color row in the Edit space panel ran past the panel’s edge, so the last dot only responded to clicks beside it. Every dot now has its own full click target, the row spreads across the panel, and the panel has even margins and the same width as the desktop list, so the popover no longer resizes when you open it.
• Notch label, your way. Icon and name, name only, or icon only, in Settings › General. And the setting is respected: off means off. When the menu bar is too full, the tile shrinks to its icon and nothing appears beside the notch.
• Settings pages show when there is more below. The scroll bar is back, and the bottom edge fades until you reach the end of a page.

1.1.0 · 7 September 2026

The apps on each desktop within reach, the name beside the camera notch, and switching past the tenth desktop as smooth as the rest.

• Open an app where it lives. The app icons under each desktop in the menu bar popover are buttons now: click one and Doorplate switches to that desktop and brings the app to the front once you have arrived. The small icons on the hover strip’s tiles do the same and show up to five apps.
• Find a desktop by the app on it, and open it. Press Control Option Space, type the first letters of an app’s name, and the Quick Switcher lists the desktop where that app lives with an “Opens …” tag. Return switches there and brings the app forward on arrival. Typing a desktop’s name works as before.
• Your desktop’s name beside the notch. On a MacBook with a camera notch, Settings › General can put the current desktop’s name in the menu bar band, flush against the notch, as if the notch had grown a label. Choose the side and whether the icon comes along, and preview the look on any display. It steps aside for Mission Control and full-screen apps.
• A full menu bar keeps the tile. On a notched MacBook, macOS hides menu bar items that do not fit. When that happens to Doorplate, the tile shrinks to its icon so it stays clickable, and the full name returns when your displays change. (1.1.0 also put the name beside the notch by itself in that case; 1.1.1 leaves that to the notch setting.)
• Desktops beyond the tenth switch with the normal slide. macOS has shortcuts for Desktops 1 to 10 only, so Desktop 11 and beyond used to go through Mission Control, which opened briefly and sometimes did not switch. Doorplate now uses macOS’s own “Move right a space” for those, once per space, and the Dock slides through as one motion. Jump back still returns to the desktop you came from.
• A desktop full of windows no longer flashes Mission Control. A slow switch on a busy Mac used to be given up on too early, which opened Mission Control while the switch was still in flight. Every step of a switch now waits for the display to actually arrive, up to a sensible limit.
• Names in Mission Control keep up with a hovered thumbnail. Where Mission Control zooms the thumbnail under the pointer, the name pill follows the zoom instead of trailing it.
• Smaller things. Moving a window to another desktop and following it brings the app forward the moment the display has arrived, and a second click on the desktop you are already switching to joins that switch instead of restarting it.

1.0.1 · 7 September 2026

• Switching after granting Accessibility. If the permission was turned on while Doorplate was already running, macOS kept ignoring the keystrokes Doorplate sends for its own Switch to Desktop shortcuts until the app was reopened, so every switch went through a visible Mission Control blink. Doorplate now restarts itself once, right after the permission lands, and says so.
• Updating over a running copy. Opening a new Doorplate while an older one runs quits the older one; names, colors, shortcuts and the permission stay.
• The welcome window and the menu bar notice now say what the permission is for: names inside Mission Control and instant switching.

1.0.0 · 7 September 2026

The first release under the name Doorplate. Same app, new door.

• Names in Mission Control on Apple Silicon and Intel with System Integrity Protection on. The pills follow the Dock’s own animation: they slide in with the bar, glide down when the previews expand, and ride out when Mission Control closes, including when it closes by switching desktops.
• Menu bar tile and popover, Quick Switcher, jump back, direct and per-desktop shortcuts, the hover strip, the switch tag, send-window, time per desktop with CSV export, icons from SF Symbols, emoji or your own pictures.
• Automation: Shortcuts, Raycast, Alfred and any launcher can switch desktops by number or name, jump back, step, and open the Quick Switcher or Settings.
• Moving over from SpaceTags: the first launch imports names, icons, colors, shortcuts, tracked time and settings from the old bundle.
• Measured: idle ≈0.1 % of one core, active ≈1 %, Mission Control ≈3 % (9 % bursts), 22 MB.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Signed, not yet notarized: on first open use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.