Ribbon changelog

What changed most recently?#

On October 22, 2026, Ribbon gained a strip per display, a full native Settings window and a translated interface. The entries below list every user-facing change, newest first.

October 22, 2026#

• A strip per display. Each display gets its own strip. Choose which displays Ribbon manages: all of them, the Mac's own screen, external ones, or chosen ones.
• Carry windows between displays. Drag a window by its title bar onto another display; the old strip closes up and the new one opens a gap under the pointer.
• Step aside. Four fingers up part the strip like a curtain to show the desktop and floating windows; four fingers down bring it back. The menu-bar icon does the same with a click.
• Native Settings window with toolbar tabs, grouped forms, illustrations and compatibility notes. Speeds, delays and new-window widths use named stops instead of numbers.
• Ribbon in your language: English, Vietnamese and 14 more languages.
• Fix Trackpad Conflicts finds each macOS trackpad gesture that collides with Ribbon's and shows how to change it.
• Apps Left Alone: one list of apps Ribbon never arranges, and Leave App Alone in the menu.
• New windows open next to the other windows of the same app.
• Choose the menu-bar icon: an outline, or the colorful app icon.
• A new app icon, a band of purple silk, for light and dark menus.
• One universal app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

October 21, 2026#

• Free scrolling alongside lined-up scrolling, with snap assist for edges that stop close to the screen edge.
• Floating windows: fixed-size windows such as settings panels and dialogs float above the strip.
• The switcher shrinks windows into one row, like the iPhone app switcher. Drag to reorder, drop on a window to stack, or click to go there; a Spaces bar runs along the top.
• Full screen inside the strip, and a double-click on a title bar makes a window full width, keeping your gaps.
• Any width: resize a window by hand and it keeps that width; windows snap to screen edges.
• An infinite strip option, where the last window wraps around to the first.
• Layouts survive a restart for the apps still open.
• The strip settles with a spring that starts at the speed your fingers let go.
• Clicking an app in the Dock moves the strip to its window; clicking again cycles through its windows.
• Windows closed in the background leave the strip; opening and closing slide.

October 13, 2026#

• Ribbon arranges real windows on a horizontal strip, and three-finger swipes move the strip.
• The first version of the switcher: three fingers up show every window in a row.
• A clean way out: Quit and Stop Managing put every window back on screen.