Menu-bar workspace manager for macOS

Your Mac forgets.
Spud doesn't.

Every window back where you left it. Everything you've copied, not just the last thing. The line you retype twice a day. The screenshot you know you took. All of it one keystroke away.

Spud's panel on the Workspaces tab: six numbered workspaces — Deep Work active — each one a saved layout you can switch to with a keypress

Capture

Snapshot every open app & window in place. Prune what you don't want before saving.

Switch

One click restores a context and hides the apps that belong to your others.

Jump back

Changed your mind? Back to Previous Layout returns your screen to how it was.

Workspaces

Windows land back
exactly where you left them.

Spud records each window's position, size and front-to-back order. Restore relaunches closed apps, reopens the browser tabs you'd closed, and re-places everything — even remapping proportionally onto whatever displays you have plugged in right now.

  • Exact positions, sizes & z-order
  • Reopens closed browser tabs — no duplicates
  • Docked ↔ laptop: layouts re-place proportionally
Close-up of Spud's workspace list: five named workspaces — Deep Work active with a Switch affordance — each numbered for one-keypress switching
The switcher

A ⌘-Tab for your
whole work context.

Hit the hotkey and a switcher fans out your workspaces. Arrow keys or number keys move the selection, Return jumps in. The active one is marked — you never lose your place.

⌃⌥ Space opens the switcher
Clipboard history

Never lose a copied thought.

Everything you copy is kept and searchable from one shortcut — paste something from an hour ago without breaking flow.

Spud's Clipboard tab: a searchable history of recent copies — a hex color, a link, standup notes, code, an invoice line, an address
Screenshots

The screenshot you know you took.

Every capture lands in one searchable grid — the files from ⇧⌘5 and the ones you copied straight to the clipboard that macOS never saved. Return copies it, ready to paste; ⌘↩ opens it. Opt-in, and nothing leaves your Mac.

Snippets

Type it once.
Paste it forever.

Save the things you type every day — email intros, addresses, standup templates — and pull them up with one search. Return copies the one you picked and closes the panel, ready to paste.

⌃ Space opens the panel
Spud's Snippets tab: saved snippets like Email intro and Standup template, with search and a live preview pane
Spud's Talk tab: Talk is on and listening — copied text will be read aloud — with a voice picker and speed control
Talk

Copy it.
Hear it read aloud.

Flip Talk on and anything you copy is read aloud — proof-listen your own drafts, or follow a long document while you work in another window. Pick the voice, set the speed.

⌃ T toggles Talk
Global shortcuts

Never touch the mouse.

Open the switcher⌃⌥ Space
Save current layout⌃⌥ S
Dismiss active workspace⌃⌥ H
Back to previous layout⌃⌥ Z
Open the Spud panel⌃ Space
Talk — read copied text aloud⌃ T
Switch to the Nth workspace⌃⌥ 1…9
Pricing

Try everything free for 10 days.

Nothing you make in the trial is ever taken away.

Free

The essentials, forever.

$0
  • Up to 2 saved workspaces
  • Your last 10 clipboard items
  • 5 saved snippets
  • Screenshots & the switcher
  • Full 10-day Pro trial to start
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Spud Pro

Every context, unlimited.

$4.99/mo
  • Unlimited saved workspaces
  • Your full clipboard history
  • Unlimited saved snippets
  • Talk — reads copied text aloud
  • Works on every Mac you sign in to
Start free Pro trial

Upgrades happen inside the app — download first, go Pro whenever you're ready.

Spud

Get your desktop under control.

Download Spud and save your first workspace in under a minute.

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Requires macOS 26 Tahoe · Apple silicon & Intel · Free 10-day trial — no card, no sign-up
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No Dock icon — that's normal.

Spud is a menu-bar app. After install there's no Dock icon — look for the ▦ icon in the menu bar at the top of your screen.

macOS will ask for Accessibility.

On first launch, macOS asks for Accessibility permission. Spud needs it to read and move other apps' windows — that's the entire product; it doesn't work without it.