Software Alternatives & Reviews

Touch Bar Simulator VS TouchSwitcher

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

Touch Bar Simulator logo Touch Bar Simulator

The macOS Touch Bar Simulator as a standalone app

TouchSwitcher logo TouchSwitcher

Switch between apps with just the Touch Bar
  • Touch Bar Simulator Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-24
  • TouchSwitcher Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-01

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

TouchSwitcher videos

TouchSwitcher: Fast apps switching from the MacBook Pro Touch Bar

More videos:

  • Review - TouchSwitcher is a Fast App Switcher for the MacBook Pro Touch Bar
  • Review - The BEST MacBook Pro Touch Bar app! (TouchSwitcher)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Touch Bar Simulator and TouchSwitcher)
Mac
63 63%
37% 37
Virtual Keyboard
68 68%
32% 32
Utilities
59 59%
41% 41
Productivity
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Touch Bar Simulator should be more popular than TouchSwitcher. 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 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

TouchSwitcher mentions (1)

  • A small change
    There is one I use for a long time called touchswitcher. Works very well have the link here https://hazeover.com/touchswitcher.html. Source: over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Pock - Display the macOS Dock in your Touch Bar

HapticKey - Trigger haptic feedback when tapping Touch Bar

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

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

Lacona - Fast, simple, powerful keyboard-driven commands for Mac