🐇 Space Rabbit

Instant space switching on macOS.

Space Rabbit removes animations when switching macOS Spaces. Reclaim hours of your time every month!

⬇️ Download Space Rabbit for macOS hereundefined

Features

• ✅ Instant space switch - your keyboard shortcut switches spaces with zero animation
• ✅ Auto-follow on Cmd+Tab - switching to an app on another space takes you there instantly
• ✅ Reads your shortcuts - picks up your bindings from System Settings automatically
• ✅ No SIP changes needed - just classic accessibility permissions

Screenshots

Install

Download the latest release from GitHub Releases and drag Space Rabbit.app into your Applications folder.

Alternatively, you can also download Space Rabbit from our website.

👉 Grant Accessibility access when prompted (System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility).

Setup

For the best experience, also enable Instant Dock hide in Space Rabbit’s Preferences. This makes the Dock hide animation instant, eliminating a residual flash when switching spaces. It is not enabled by default because it modifies a global macOS setting — but it has no effect when Space Rabbit is disabled.

Uninstall

1. Quit Space Rabbit from the menu bar.
2. Delete Space Rabbit.app from your Applications folder.
3. Remove the login item in System Settings → General → Login Items if you had enabled it.

undefinedIf you had “Instant Dock hide” enabled: Space Rabbit writes a setting directly to macOS’s Dock preferences to make the Dock hide animation instant. Deleting the app does not revert this change. To restore the original Dock behavior, run the following command in Terminal:

defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier && killall Dock

Build from source

make app

Requires Xcode command line tools and a valid Developer ID for signing.

If you don’t, you will be asked for your signature key identifier when building the app.

Release & notarize

👉 This procedure is only used by repository maintainers to release new versions of Space Rabbit.

1. Prior to distributing a release, create a new Git tag so that the new version is picked up during build. Tags should be formatted as such: v1.0.0.

2. Once tagged, you can build Space Rabbit.app:

make app

3. Finally, it needs to be packaged and notarized into Space-Rabbit.dmg as such:

make release

4. When the final DMG has been packaged and notarized, simply draft a new release on space-rabbit/releases and upload Space-Rabbit.dmg.

👉 The website does not need to be updated, since the download button points to the Space-Rabbit.dmg file from the latest release.

👉 You can configure your signing key by creating a local.env file with eg.:

export SIGN_ID=Developer ID Application: Your Developer Name (IDENTIFIER_HERE)

How it works

Posts synthetic high-velocity DockSwipe gesture events. The Dock processes these as a completed trackpad swipe and switches instantly.

This is based on the technique from InstantSpaceSwitcher.

Known limitations

• Trackpad swipe gestures still animate (they bypass the event tap)
• May break on future macOS updates (uses undocumented CGEvent fields)