Navigation

Two commands that take you somewhere, from the keyboard:

• Switch Windows lists every open window of every running app, and brings the one you pick to the front.
• Search Menu Bar Items lists every item in the front app's menus, and presses the one you pick.

Settings → Navigation → Enable navigation holds the switch. It ships off. While it is off, neither command is in the launcher and their shortcuts do nothing.

Both need the Accessibility permission. Neither needs Screen Recording.

Each command has a checkbox, a shortcut recorder and an alias field in Settings → Navigation.

Switch Windows

The list starts with the app you used most recently, and each app's windows follow in their own front-to-back order. Minimized windows come last. Type to filter by window title or app name.

return (Switch to Window) brings the window forward:

• A minimized window is restored first.
• A window on another Space pulls that Space forward.

If the app quit between opening the list and pressing return, Tinycast tells you instead of doing nothing.

Search Menu Bar Items

Open it over any app and every menu item appears as a row: the app's icon, the item's name, where it lives (like File → Export), and its keyboard shortcut if it has one.

With an empty search, rows are grouped by top-level menu, like File, Edit and View. Type and the list becomes one ranked Results list across all menus. return (Activate Menu Item) presses it.

Good to know

• It works on the app that was in front when you opened it. Switching apps afterwards does not change the target.
• Only items you could click are listed. Disabled items, separators and hidden items are left out.
• Tinycast never opens menus to read them. Some apps build a submenu only when you open it, so those items may be missing. Opening menus behind your back would flash the app's UI every time.
• Very large menus are capped at 4,000 items, and reading stops after about a second.

Settings

An app on the Disabled Applications list is refused before its menus are read, not filtered afterwards.

If there is nothing to search, you get a plain sentence instead of an empty list, like Finder has no menu bar to search or Menu search is turned off for 1Password.