Tab Launcher App Reviews

I just bought the application, but already love it. It gives to my screen a colorful life and I love its functions as well. Simply great!

Ive used objectdock on windows for years, and have never been happy with macs limitation of just one dock. this app erases that limitation and has made my experience with mac a lot better.

Could use a couple of touches, such as auto-lable of icons and resizing of dock to fit number of icons. Much better value than the way over-priced DragThing.

Well, the Tab Launcher developers really screwed the pooch this time. It completely does not work after the first time the tabs are used. From then on, Nothing! I’m removing this application due to the fact it is completely useless at this point. Developers are suppose to do user testing BEFORE publishing to production. Get some developers that know what they are doing.

In addition to not working after you use it once it also consumes massive amounts of memory. At times the app is calling for almost 3gb of memory. I love this app. Please get it fixed yesterday.

It seems to crash a large amount while working in the preferences.

For years Ive been waiting to see this kind of utility appear for OS X, Ive used a similar one (forgot the name, something with Drop…) in OS 9. Also in OS 9 you could slam a folder against the bottom of the screen and you would have a tab sticking up with quick access to that folder. But no dice in OS X until TabLauncher for OS X appeared. I know - and Ive tried many - similar utilities to TabLauncher but they almost all without exception accept only aliases of a file or folder which is fine if thats what youre looking for. TabLauncher accepts the original file or folder AND links (aliases) as well, including aliases to applications. I consider this application as my most important and most often used utility, you can virtually throw anything at it (files, folders, images, movies, music) to store either temporary or permanently. You can place the tabs left, right, top or bottom of your screen, adjust the prefs for the tabs color, style, size, etc., including the response time for opening and closing the tabs and keep them visible or automatically hide them. No more searching for applications, files or folders, they are right there in the tabs (invisible) at the edge of your screen, named after your own preferences. I hope the developer never gives up on this utility, because this is a keeper for life. No more need for the Dock - finally! The price is also ridiculously low. So far I havent seen any crashes with this utility in Mavericks on my 2007 MBPro 17".

This latest update has obliterated my config file. I proceeded to reunify my applications with their icons which took over an hour, and then quit Tab Launcher. Restarted Tab Launcher and my new config had not been saved. This app has essentially been rendered useless.

After Updating on 9.30.15 to the new version 2.8.2 all Tab Launcher does is Crash when I attempt to launch the application. I’ve uninstalled & reinstalled Tab Launcher & that did not fix the problem & as a long time user of Tab Launcher I am very disappointed Hopefully this will be fixed.

Note: This is an updated review after a recent problem that caused Tablauncher to not run was fixed. Tablauncher is the perfect complement to the Mac user interface. It enables you to create multiple multi-tabbed docs that you can use to organize yourself by task. I have specific tabs for my art, music, and writing that contain the files, folders, URLs, and apps that I use for these respective tasks. It streamlines my work and helps keep everything in easy reach. My eyes aren’t great any more, so it’s a real help that I can adjust the icon size for the icons in my docks to be comfortable for me. I have my regulart tabs docked to the top of my screen with auto-hide turned on. So when I want my tabs, I just bump the top of the screen. This app also offers two special tabs that I use a lot: Running and Windows. The Running tab, as you might expect, shows the currently running apps. The Windows tab shows all of the current windows. With the Running and Windows tabs, it’s easy to switch between active windows and apps without having to switch to the keyboard. I keep these together in a dock on the bottom of my screen. I’ve shrunk the OS X dock down to almost nothing because I don’t use it much. As a result, my Running+Windows dock can share the space across the bottom of my screen with the OS X dock with no conflict. I haven’t yet tried Tablauncher’s scripting capabilities yet even though I’ve been using it for a few years. Apparently, you can create scripts to automate your regular tasks and assign them to an icon in one of Tablauncher’s docks. I tried all of Tablauncher’s competition, and there was only one that was as good. And it costs $30! No thannks. I’ll stick with Tablauncher for as long as the developer will keep maintaining it at the current level of quality.

This is an excellent appraoch, and I rely upon it. However, on 10.9.5 I have been noticing some weirdness when I click an icon. Plus, it does occasionally crash. I have done extensive customizing, so I like the way it looks, but it doesn’t seem to work as efficiently.