For Windows people using a Mac

Your Mac, with your Windows habits.

Cut and paste files. Home and End. Window snapping. The shortcuts your fingers already know. Switcher Kit makes them work on a Mac — one small app, set up in a minute.

Get Switcher Kit free Free to download. Full kit free for 14 days,
then £9 to keep it all. No subscription.

Just moved from Windows? Or Windows at work and a Mac at home? It's made for you.

Someone typing on a laptop at a desk at home

Your fingers already know the way

Press the keys you've always pressed. Switcher Kit makes the Mac do what you meant.

In Finder
⌘+Xthen⌘+V
✓
Moves your filesCut and paste works just like Windows.
While typing
Home/End
✓
Start and end of the lineNot a jump to the top of the page.
The red button
●on the last window
✓
Closes the appNo more apps quietly running in the Dock.

Sound familiar?

A Mac is a lovely computer. But after years on Windows, your hands keep doing the wrong thing — dozens of times a day.

Why won't ⌘X cut my files?Finder has no cut. You copy, then use a hidden shortcut to move.
End just scrolled to the bottom.Home and End scroll the page instead of moving the cursor.
I closed it. Why is it still open?The red button closes the window, but the app keeps running.
Where's snapping?The green button goes full screen, not half the screen.
Enter renamed my file.In Finder, Enter renames and Delete does nothing.
Ctrl+C did nothing.Shortcuts moved to ⌘, and word jumping moved to ⌥.

Made for two kinds of Mac user

New to Mac

You've just moved from Windows

New MacBook, years of Windows habits. Switcher Kit gets you working straight away, without relearning everything in your first week.

  • Your keys work the way you expect from day one
  • Switch fixes off one by one as you learn the Mac way, if you want to
Both, every day

Windows at work, Mac at home

Eight hours a day on Windows, then home to a Mac — and your fingers never get the memo. You're not going to "get used to it", because work keeps retraining you.

  • One set of habits on both computers
  • Ctrl works like ⌘, so Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V just work at home too

Everything a switcher misses, in one app

Each fix can be switched on or off from the menu bar. No settings files, no fiddling.

Cut and paste files

⌘X then ⌘V moves files in Finder, like Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V.

Home and End

Start or end of the line. Add Ctrl for the whole document, and Shift to select.

Window snapping

Snap windows to half the screen or fill it from the keyboard, and minimise everything at once.

Explorer keys in Finder

Enter opens, F2 renames, Delete moves to the Bin, Backspace goes back.

Close means close

Clicking the red button on an app's last window quits the app, like Windows.

Windows shortcuts

The shortcuts you used for File Explorer, Task Manager, closing programs and screenshots, on the same keys.

Ctrl works like ⌘

Optional: Ctrl+C, V, Z, S and friends, Ctrl+Y to redo, Ctrl+arrows to jump words.

Tap for search

Optional: tap ⌘ on its own to open Spotlight, like the Windows key opens Start.

Set up in a minute

Download and open

Switcher Kit lives in your menu bar. No Dock icon, no windows in your way.

Allow it once

A short guide walks you through the one macOS permission it needs to read your key presses.

Your keys just work

Everything's on from the start. Switch any fix off from the menu if you'd rather learn the Mac way.

Switcher Kit is nearly ready

It isn't ready to download yet. Leave your email and we'll send you the free download the day it launches.

Freeto download · full kit for 14 days
  • Every fix above, free for 14 days
  • Then £9 one-off to keep the full kit, with updates. No subscription
  • Or carry on free with Switcher Kit Lite: Close means close, and Home and End
  • Works on any Mac with macOS 14 or later
  • One email when it launches — nothing else
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Questions

What's free and what do I pay for?

Switcher Kit is free to download, and every fix works for 14 days. After that, £9 (one-off, no subscription) keeps the full kit. If you don't buy, it carries on as Switcher Kit Lite, with Close means close and Home and End free for ever.

Is it safe?

Switcher Kit runs entirely on your Mac. macOS asks you to allow it under Privacy & Security › Accessibility, because it needs to see key presses to change them. It never records or sends what you type. It only goes online to check for updates.

I use Windows at work. Does it change anything there?

No. Switcher Kit only runs on your Mac, and nothing needs installing at work. It simply makes your Mac behave like the Windows PC you use all day.

Does it change my Mac permanently?

No. Quit Switcher Kit, or switch a fix off in its menu, and your Mac behaves exactly as before.

Will it break apps that already work the Windows way?

No. Home and End are left alone in apps that already handle them, such as Word, Excel, VS Code and Terminal. Ctrl stays as Ctrl in Terminal and in remote desktop and virtual machine apps.

Why isn't it on the Mac App Store?

Apple's App Store rules don't allow apps that change how keys work across the whole Mac. Switcher Kit will be signed and checked by Apple, and sold directly from this site.

Which Macs does it work on?

Any Mac running macOS 14 Sonoma or later, including the MacBook Neo, with its own keyboard or a Windows keyboard plugged in.

When will it be ready?

Soon. Leave your email above and you'll hear the moment it is.