Software Alternatives & Reviews

Touch Bar Preview VS Touch Bar Simulator

Compare Touch Bar Preview VS Touch Bar Simulator and see what are their differences

Touch Bar Preview logo Touch Bar Preview

A small app to display your designs on the Touch Bar.

Touch Bar Simulator logo Touch Bar Simulator

The macOS Touch Bar Simulator as a standalone app
  • Touch Bar Preview Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-03-07
  • Touch Bar Simulator Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-24

Touch Bar Preview

Categories
  • Mac
  • Utilities
  • Virtual Keyboard
  • Mac Tools
Website touchbar.github.io
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Touch Bar Simulator

Categories
  • Mac
  • Mac Tools
  • Virtual Keyboard
  • Name Checker
Website sindresorhus.com
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Touch Bar Preview videos

Touch Bar Preview app Review

Touch Bar Simulator videos

Overview of the touch bar simulator

More videos:

  • Review - MacVoices #16196: Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Discusses The Touch Bar Simulator, Touché

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Touch Bar Preview and Touch Bar Simulator)
Mac
22 22%
78% 78
Virtual Keyboard
23 23%
77% 77
Utilities
32 32%
68% 68
Mac Tools
30 30%
70% 70

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Touch Bar Simulator seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Touch Bar Preview mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Touch Bar Preview yet. Tracking of Touch Bar Preview recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Touch Bar Simulator mentions (4)

  • Mimic Touch Bar screenshot functionality on non-touch bar M1 MacBook Pro
    If you want a fake (yet fully functional) touchbar on your screen, you could use something like: https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator (I used that for a while on my 2017 mbp). Source: 10 months ago
  • Picture-in-picture for all videos that works on Safari 15 / Monterey?
    Baking soda or Fulifier would on most sites but not iPlayer apparently. However (without any need for an extension) I can use PIP on any compatible website via the button on my touchbar. Perhaps until you find an extension, use touch-bar-simulator? Source: over 1 year ago
  • Why does my new M1 Pro MacBook think it has a touch bar?
    Did you try a restart? It’s bizarre that’s it’s using so much virtual memory too. Only thing I could think of it virtual Touch Bar simulator, but I think you would probably know if you were using that lol. Is it possible there’s an app doing something similar? Also, side note, what do you use to rearrange your menu bar? It looks great. Source: over 2 years ago
  • TouchBar Simulator
    I use this one.. Works fine.. Https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator. Source: almost 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Touch Bar Preview and Touch Bar Simulator, you can also consider the following products

My TouchBar My Rules (MTMR) - Customize your touch bar as you want it

TouchBar for your old MacBook - Use Touch Bar on an iPad through USB connection

Haptic Touch Bar - The missing haptic feedback for Touch Bar keys

TouchSwitcher - Switch between apps with just the Touch Bar

HapticKey - Trigger haptic feedback when tapping Touch Bar

Touch Bar Nyancat - Nyancat on your MacBook Pro's Touch Bar #innovation