Glance Switch is now on Windows

Glance Switch started on the Mac, where focus stays on the screen you left until you click. Windows has the same problem. You turn to your other monitor, start typing, and the words land in the window you were in before. So you reach for the mouse, click, and type it again.

Today Glance Switch is available for Windows. It uses your PC's camera to see which screen, window or split pane you're facing, and moves keyboard focus there before your first keystroke.

What it does on Windows

• Turn to a screen and type. The last window you used on that screen comes forward, and the pointer comes along to where you left it.
• Windows and split panes on the same screen. Look at a snapped window, or a split pane in Windows Terminal, VS Code, Cursor, Visual Studio or a JetBrains IDE, and it takes focus. This works with a single display too.
• It waits while you type. A quick glance at another pane won't take your keystrokes, and it never moves focus while you're using the mouse.
• It stays out of the way. Glance Switch lives in the system tray, starts with Windows, and pauses when your PC locks, sleeps or turns off the display. Pause it anytime with Ctrl Alt G.

Built for Windows

This isn't the Mac app wrapped up for Windows. Tracking, calibration and switching work the same way, but everything that touches the system was built for Windows:

• Private, on your PC. Face tracking runs on models built into the app, at no more than 15 frames a second. Frames stay in memory and are never saved or uploaded.
• Shares the camera. Teams, Zoom and the Camera app can still use your webcam while Glance Switch runs.
• Knows about virtual desktops. Windows on other desktops are left alone.
• No admin rights needed. It installs for your user account, and updates download and install themselves.

One Windows rule to know: a normal app can't take focus from a window that's running as administrator. While an elevated window, like an admin PowerShell, is in front, Glance Switch waits.

One license, Mac or Windows

Your license key works on either. If you already own Glance Switch for Mac, you can move it to a PC: open License… from the menu bar on your Mac and deactivate it, then paste the same key into Glance Switch on Windows. A key is active on one computer at a time.

Get it

1. Check the requirements. Windows 10 version 2004 or later, or Windows 11, on an x64 or ARM64 PC, with a camera. Switching between screens needs two or more displays.
2. Get it from the Microsoft Store. It installs in one click on Intel, AMD and Snapdragon PCs, and updates itself. You can also use the installer on the download page.
3. Paste your key and calibrate. Follow a dot around each screen, about 30 seconds per screen, and you're set.

Want to see how it behaves before you buy? The interactive demo on the home page works in any browser.