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DeskSay
Name your Mac desktops. Then say where to go.
macOS has had Spaces since 2007 and has never let you name one. Renaming tools exist, but they stop at names. DeskSay names every desktop and then gets you there: say the name out loud, type the first two letters, or press a key you assign. It skips the sliding animation, so a switch lands in about 200 milliseconds. Names show over the thumbnails in Mission Control and in the menu bar. Speech uses the on device macOS engine, so nothing is uploaded and it works offline.
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“Name your Mac desktops. Then say where to go.”
DeskSay was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #33 on the daily leaderboard. macOS has had Spaces since 2007 and has never let you name one. Renaming tools exist, but they stop at names. DeskSay names every desktop and then gets you there: say the name out loud, type the first two letters, or press a key you assign. It skips the sliding animation, so a switch lands in about 200 milliseconds. Names show over the thumbnails in Mission Control and in the menu bar. Speech uses the on device macOS engine, so nothing is uploaded and it works offline.
On the analytics side, DeskSay competes within Mac, Productivity and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 775.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how DeskSay performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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Hey Product Hunt. I'm Fred, I made DeskSay.
Spaces have been in macOS since 2007 and have never had names. They are called Desktop 1 through Desktop 6, they reorder themselves when you are not looking, and the only way to find the one you want is to swipe past all the others and recognise it by the windows on it.
I had four. Work, a client, email and whatever I was reading. I knew exactly which one I wanted every time. I just had no way to say so.
So DeskSay gives them names, and then gets you there. Say "Design" out loud and you are on Design. Or press the Quick Switcher and type two letters. Or give a desktop its own key. The switch skips the sliding animation, so it lands in about 200 milliseconds instead of most of a second, which is the difference between a tool you use and one you forget about.
Two things I care about more than the feature list:
The speech runs entirely on your Mac, using the recognition engine macOS already ships. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works with the network off. I did not want to build a utility that phones home to hear you say the word "Email".
And it names them everywhere, not just in its own window. The names appear over the thumbnails in Mission Control, and a card with the name appears on screen when you land, including when you switch with Control and arrow or a trackpad swipe rather than through DeskSay at all.
It is a one time purchase, 7.99 for up to three Macs, with a 14 day trial that has every feature and does not ask for a card. I am not running a subscription for a menu bar app.
It is 7.99 at the moment, which is the introductory price. It goes to 14.99.
Two questions I would genuinely like answered. How many desktops do you actually run, and what do you use to move between them today?