Writing your thesis
- Paper on the left, draft on the right, with two keys.
- The quote from this morning is still in your clipboard.
- The export takes two hours, and your Mac doesn’t go to sleep.
A background app for macOS · free beta
Move the window to the left half. Rewind your screen three hours. Translate whatever is selected. Find what you copied an hour ago. Pause Spotify without leaving Word. Keep your Mac on. Each on its own shortcut.
Small superpowers for your Mac, each on a key you choose.
Move windows with one key, rewind your screen, translate a selection, pause the music from anywhere, find what you copied an hour ago. Switch on what you need and pick its key yourself.
Beta 1.5.6-beta.1 · runs until 1 December 2026 · macOS 13 or later · Apple silicon or Intel
The interface
teespoons stays in the background until you need it.
Press Control Option Command 0 ⌃⌥⌘ 0 to see every spoon with its settings and switch. Change what you want and get back to work.
Dark, light, or the same as your Mac.
Stuff your Mac should already do
You need something you copied an hour ago, and it’s nowhere to be found. Or something was on your screen earlier and now it’s gone. And macOS can sort of arrange windows, if you know where to look.
Little things like that bugged me so often that I built the tools for them myself. And then my friends and lab mates were always bugging me to make an easy to use version…
Everyday use cases
Working in another language
- Select a German message and read the English in a pop-up.
- Or swap the text for its translation, right where it is.
- Dictate the paragraph instead of typing it. The recording never leaves your Mac.
Between work and time off
- Pause the music without leaving your work.
- Jump straight to the Safari window you’re looking for.
- Home VPN, work VPN or none, with one shortcut.
In the lab and at the desk
- Type today’s date with one key, so your files stay sorted.
- Illustrator crashed just as you went to save. Rewind your screen three minutes and rescue your graphics.
- Your lab protocol, formula sheet or coding cheat sheet floats over whatever you’re doing, then goes away.
If your days look different, keep the spoons you need and switch the rest off.
Your keys
40 shortcuts come set up. You can change any of them.
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The same three keys for almost everything
Hold Control Option Command ⌃⌥⌘ and press a key. The second row is on Control Option Command Shift ⌃⌥⌘⇧ .
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Change a key
Open teespoons, click the key next to a shortcut and press the combination you want. Spoons that come without a key wait for you to pick one.
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You see clashes right away
While you press the new combination, teespoons tells you if another spoon or macOS already uses it.
What’s inside
All 15 in one download
WindowSnap
WindowsPut windows on any edge with the arrow keys.
Browser on the left, Word on the right, without touching the mouse.
Control Option Command Left arrow ⌃⌥⌘ ←
Window Switcher
WindowsSwitch between individual windows. Two Safari windows are two entries.
Jump back and forth between two Word documents.
Option Tab ⌥ Tab
Clipboard
FilesEverything you copy, searchable in a list at the pointer.
The link you copied yesterday is still there.
Command Shift C ⌘⇧ C
Translate
TextTranslate selected text, right next to the original.
Read a German message in English right where it is.
Control Option Command T ⌃⌥⌘ T
Lookup
TextSearch selected words on the site you choose.
Look up a term from a PDF straight on Wikipedia.
Control Option Command G ⌃⌥⌘ G
MediaControls
MediaVolume and Spotify, from any app.
Turn the music down when the phone rings.
Control Option Command Space ⌃⌥⌘ Space
Display Brightness
SystemBrighter or dimmer on the display you’re working on, external monitors included.
Dim the second monitor a notch in the evening.
Control Option Command K ⌃⌥⌘ K
FinderArchive
FilesZip or tar the files selected in Finder.
Zip the project folder for your supervisor, without node_modules.
Control Option Command X ⌃⌥⌘ X
Caffeine
UtilityYour Mac and the screen stay on until you press again.
Your screen doesn’t go black in the middle of a talk.
Control Option Command C ⌃⌥⌘ C
Connectivity
UtilityWi-Fi off and on, and all your VPNs in one menu.
When the internet hangs, turn Wi-Fi off and on again.
Control Option Command W ⌃⌥⌘ W
Date Grabber
WritingToday’s date, or the date and time, pasted at your cursor.
Every file name starts with a date that sorts properly.
Control Option Command B ⌃⌥⌘ B
WhisperDictate
SystemPress, talk, press again, and your words show up at your cursor.
Dictate a long prompt for an AI instead of typing it.
Control Option Command E ⌃⌥⌘ E
Timelapse
SystemRewind your screen. Everything stays on your Mac.
Find the page you closed an hour ago.
Control Option Command Shift Semicolon ⌃⌥⌘⇧ ;
System Keys
SystemWarns you when macOS already uses a shortcut.
Find out why ⌘Space stopped opening Spotlight.
Control Option Command J ⌃⌥⌘ J
CheatSheet
Set upYour own cheat sheets, as pictures or PDFs, on a key.
Pull up your timetable, then close it with a click.
Add a sheet in Settings and give it a key.
What teespoons isn’t
- Not a launcher. Raycast and Alfred already do that. teespoons works with whatever you have open.
- Not a scripting tool. You don’t have to code anything. Every spoon has a switch and a key.
- Not finished. It’s a beta until 1 December 2026. If something breaks, write to me and I’ll fix it.
Try teespoons free for a week or two.
Drag it into Applications and open it. teespoons shows you the rest.
Beta 1.5.6-beta.1 · runs until 1 December 2026 · macOS 13 or later · Apple silicon or Intel