One Switch 1.35.4 for macOS

Seven switches sit in your menu bar at once, and that is usually more than enough to cover a day's annoyances. The newest version adds German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish to the English interface, so more people can read what each toggle does without guessing.

Start with Dark Mode. Flip it manually a few times and you will see the appeal, then set it to switch between Light and Dark appearance on its own during the day. Next, try Do Not Disturb — one click beats opening Notification Center and hunting for the crescent moon. The screen saver toggle is also worth keeping close if you step away from your desk often.

Not every switch earns a spot up top. Open the app and disable the ones you rarely touch so the menu stays short. You can also set automatic sleep and wake times instead of doing it by hand every evening. The app runs on macOS 10.15 and later.

A typical session in five minutes

Imagine I sit down at my MacBook Pro after lunch. The kitchen is finally quiet, and I have forty minutes to polish a client’s restaurant video before the dinner prep calls start. I glance at the menu bar. Right now it tells me Dark Mode is on, Do Not Disturb is off, and my desktop is a mess of clip files from the morning. Three clicks of One Switch and I am in my zone.

First, I flip Do Not Disturb on. No email banners, no Slack pings. Just the timeline in Final Cut. Second, I toggle Hide Desktop Icons. The screen clears instantly — no dragging files into folders, no renaming things I should have organized last week. The desktop simply becomes a clean black canvas behind the editing window. Third, I connect my AirPods with one tap instead of opening Bluetooth settings and hoping they pair before I lose my train of thought. The whole ritual takes maybe eight seconds.

Later, when I need to step away to check on a sauce, I click the Screen Saver switch and lock the screen before my six‑year‑old nephew can “help” with the color grading. Coming back is just as quick: tap the trackpad, type my password, and the desktop icons reappear with another click. The switches bend around how I actually move through the day, not the other way around.

Shortcuts hiding in plain sight

Some of the best touches in One Switch are not the big toggles everyone talks about. They are the tiny shortcuts hiding in plain sight.

• Six‑position rotary switch mindset. The app does not have a literal 6 position rotary switch, but the idea fits: you pick a handful of positions — Dark Mode, Do Not Disturb, Desktop Icons, AirPods, Screen Saver, Sleep — and rotate through them without ever opening System Settings. Each position does exactly one job, and muscle memory takes over after a day.
• Automatic sleep and wake times. Under the hood, you can schedule exactly when your Mac goes to sleep and when it wakes. Set it once and forget it. No separate alarm app, no poking around in Energy Saver preferences.
• Seven‑switch cap is actually a clarity feature. The app shows up to seven toggles at once. That sounds like a limit, but it stops the menu from becoming a second Control Center. You think twice about what really earns a spot.
• Light and Dark schedule runs quietly. The automatic appearance switch does not nag you with notifications. The screen just changes when the hour comes, like a lamp on a timer.

Bottom line: One Switch rewards the kind of person who notices small friction and fixes it with one click. The hidden conveniences are not hidden on purpose — they just wait for you to realize you needed them all along.

Give it a day. Most people keep three or four switches and never miss the rest.

Version 1.35.4 opens the menu to more people. The interface now speaks German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, alongside English.

• macOS 10.15 or later
• Intel or Apple Silicon Mac
• Interface language: English