A focus-follows-mouse implementation on steroids!
It was calculated that the average user clicks about 6000 times per day. Multiplied by 365 days over 10 years, this equals a hefty 21,900,000 clicks!
AutoFocus helps you move significantly faster through your daily window switching on your Mac and dramatically reduces the number of clicks needed in your daily workflows!
This focus-follows-mouse feature automatically raises the window under the cursor (a feature commonly available on Linux distributions such as Ubuntu where it is called Sloppy Focus).
Basically, when you hover your cursor over a window, AutoFocus brings it to front after the delay you have set (e.g. 0.03s) without clicking on that window. If you have checked “Handle Desktop as a window”, it also brings the last opened Finder window to front when you hover over your Desktop.
AutoFocus, formerly named AutoRaise, takes its inspiration from the discontinued Zooom/2 Auto Raise feature and extends it with a very powerful and flexible workflow in a modern modular Swift codebase.
AutoFocus and its “Handle Desktop as a window” workflow has improved my personal productivity by leaps and bounds! Now it’s your turn!
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AutoFocus has the additional option of bringing all windows in an application to the front (the classic window behavior).
All Windows Appear by IXeau has a similar goal, with one caveat though, you must also click on an application’s window instead of just hovering over it like with AutoFocus.