Emulating Windows alt-tab functionality

So far loving BTT, but question for the team here. I am coming from a Windows laptop and I sorely miss the ALT-TAB shortcut to switch between 2 or 3 apps quickly. I'm aware of ⌘-TAB on the Mac but it's not the same as it only switches between separate apps (doesn't work if you have multiple windows of same app open). I'm also aware of ⌘~, to switch between windows of the same app, but it still doesn't work the same. ⌘~ just cycles through all windows of the same app (eg. 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4), so if I need to quickly switch between 2 Excel windows and I have four open, ⌘~ simply doesn't do the trick. Is there a way to emulate ALT-TAB on the Mac that will switch back and forth (not cycle) between 2 or more windows regardless of whether they're the same or different app?

Any news regarding that question since 21?

BetterTouchTool nowadays has the predefined action “Show Window Switcher (For All Apps)” that is quite configurable

Is there a way to have it opened while holding a meta key, navigate the windows with tab and disappear while selecting the focused app?

Yes

Best assign the action to cmd+tab and configure like this:

Hello good sir!

Can you please elaborate on this topic:
is there any hidden feature that will enable upon triggering Window Switcher (i use Cmd+Tab) also automatically select second window in list? So that if I simply press Cmd+Tab it will switch to previous window, but not until I release Cmd.

For example I tried this, but when I simply press Cmd+Tab right now it show list, but when I release buttons, it just selects same active window, does no work.

Thanks a lot! Great software!

You can set "Selected Item" to "Second Window in List" - this should do the trick.

@Andreas_Hegenberg , if the sort is "Last Used / Stack Order (All Desktops Mixed)" the "Selected item:" is grayed out I guess for a reason OR due to a bug. So I'm hoping it is a bug which you can fix :slight_smile: ?

Ah that was a limitation in previous implementations that should no longer be necessary. However even if grayed out it should work if you configured it while a different sorting mode was selected.

Yep, it is.