TouchCursor VS Spectacle App

TouchCursor

TouchCursor - Cursor keys for touch typists

Spectacle App

Move and resize windows with ease.

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2019-12-06

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2021-09-18

Important note: Spectacle is no longer being actively maintained

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to TouchCursor and Spectacle App)

Spectacle App

Note Taking

100 100%

Note Taking

0% 0

Window Manager

0 0%

Window Manager

100% 100

Web Service Automation

100 100%

Web Service Automation

0% 0

OSX Tools

0 0%

OSX Tools

100% 100

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Reviews

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While custom sizes can only be done with Moom, the predefined window sizes are provided by Magnet and Spectacle out of the box, but can also be configured manually with Moom. It’s also possible to assign keyboard shortcuts. So, in this case, if you want all the features, Moom can do them all.

Source: medium.com

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, TouchCursor should be more popular than Spectacle App. It has been mentiond 10 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.

TouchCursor mentions (10)

Problem with TouchCursor for PC
Has anyone gotten TouchCursor's (TouchCursor - Cursor keys for touch typists (martin-stone.github.io) function to disable using certain programs? It just doesn't work at all for me whether I use the crosshair thing or just manually enter the process name. No matter what program it is that I'm trying to configure the disable for. To disable it in Edge it doesn't work to put in msedge.exe or to use the crosshair to... Source: about 1 year ago
Has anyone here used UCIEA or variants?
If you're on Windows, do have a look at TouchCursor and / or SpaceFN. They basically allow you to use the spacebar for anything you're doing with AltGr - so much more efficient. Source: over 1 year ago
German Qwerty Keyboard?
Use TouchCursor. It will greatly boost your general productivity and you can access special characters like Umlaute by using the spacebar as a modifier. Source: over 1 year ago
Bequemer und schneller tippen mit DeutschlandPlus
Both TouchCursor and SpaceFN are publicly available approaches involving the spacebar. Source: over 1 year ago
Advice needed: K4 is perfect, but I need low profile
Would recommend a 60% if you don’t mind making and using layers using Touchcursor which doesn’t require any coding and doesn’t trigger anti heat software if you play online games. Source: about 2 years ago

Spectacle App mentions (4)

.app vs .com?
Like spectacleapp.com or alfredapp.com for example. Source: almost 2 years ago
The Essence operating system at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]
If that's your only complaint, it's very simple to fix: SpectacleApp Source: https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle Download: https://spectacleapp.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Workspace - Mid work day
If you're comfortable with shortcuts already, consider using Spectacle. Or their successor, Rectangle. Source: almost 3 years ago
Window management for PPC Mac OS
Before Rectangle I used Spectacle but can’t recall what I used 10 years ago! Source: almost 3 years ago