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Touch Bar Simulator VS Spectacle App

Compare Touch Bar Simulator VS Spectacle App and see what are their differences

Touch Bar Simulator logo Touch Bar Simulator

The macOS Touch Bar Simulator as a standalone app

Spectacle App logo Spectacle App

Move and resize windows with ease.
  • Touch Bar Simulator Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-24
  • Spectacle App Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-18

Important note: Spectacle is no longer being actively maintained

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

Spectacle App videos

Demo of Spectacle App for Mac

More videos:

  • Review - Spectacle App Showcase: Window Management, Manipulation, & Organization for Mac (2017)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Touch Bar Simulator and Spectacle App)
Mac
100 100%
0% 0
Window Manager
0 0%
100% 100
Virtual Keyboard
100 100%
0% 0
OSX Tools
0 0%
100% 100

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Spectacle App Reviews

Moom vs Magnet vs Spectacle
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

Spectacle App might be a bit more popular than Touch Bar Simulator. We know about 4 links to it since March 2021 and only 4 links to Touch Bar Simulator. 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: about 1 year 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

Spectacle App mentions (4)

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Greenshot - Greenshot is a free and open source screenshot tool that allows annotation and highlighting using the built-in image editor.

My TouchBar My Rules (MTMR) - Customize your touch bar as you want it

Magnet Window Manager - Magnet Developers

HapticKey - Trigger haptic feedback when tapping Touch Bar

ShareX - ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen...