Why people look for a Glance Switch alternative
Glance Switch is a polished paid app that switches focus to whatever you look at. If you'd rather not pay for a licence, want to read the code that watches your camera, or want to change how it behaves, Eyeshift is an open-source option that covers the same ground on macOS.
Eyeshift vs Glance Switch
- Price: Eyeshift is free under the MIT licence. Glance Switch is a paid app.
- Hardware: both work with a regular webcam, no Tobii or dedicated eye tracker needed. Eyeshift can also combine two webcams.
- What it switches: both handle screens, windows and split panes. Eyeshift supports panes in iTerm2, Terminal, Ghostty, Warp, kitty, WezTerm, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Sublime Text, Xcode and JetBrains IDEs.
- Learning: Eyeshift learns from your clicks and typing as you work, and corrects itself when you click away from a wrong switch.
- Privacy: Eyeshift processes camera frames in memory with Apple's Vision framework and has no network access. You can verify that in the source.
- Platforms: Glance Switch supports Mac and Windows. Eyeshift is Mac only for now.