14 Jun 2025 7 min read Apps

Top 10 Features That Make Supercharge Mac App Worth Buying

Supercharge is a Mac app that lets you tweak macOS to enhance your experience. The app features dozens of tweaks that address common issues faced by Mac users. In this guide, I will walk you through my top 10 features of Supercharge to showcase why this app is worth buying.

Top 10 features of Supercharge

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1. Quick install DMG files

If you have ever installed any app from outside the Mac App Store on your Mac, you know it takes several steps to install it. You first download the DMG file, double-click the file to extract it, drag the app into the applications folder, and after installation finishes, delete the DMG and unmount the drive file on your Mac.

With Supercharge, all it takes is one click. When you double-click on a DMG file, Supercharge will give you the option to install the app. You click the Install button, and it will automatically install the app, unmount the disk, and move the DMG file to the trash.

To enable this tweak, click on its menu bar icon and open Settings.

Open the Tweaks section, scroll to the bottom, and turn on the last two tweaks.

supercharge tweaks page showing install apps from dmg option

2. Launch apps with keyboard shortcuts

Another favorite feature of Supercharge is the ability to launch apps with keyboard shortcuts. Instead of using Spotlight, Launchpad, or the Dock, I can hit a preassigned keyboard shortcut for an app, and it will launch in seconds.

For example, when I hit ⌥U keyboard shortcut on my Mac, it automatically launches the Ulysses app. I have assigned keyboard shortcuts to all my favorite apps, and launching them with Supercharge saves me a lot of time.

To add these keyboard shortcuts, click on the app’s menu bar icon and open Settings. Open the Shortcuts tab, scroll to the bottom, and add all the apps you want to launch with keyboard shortcuts.

3. Unminimize apps with Command-Tab

macOS gives you two ways to hide an app. You can either use the ⌘H keyboard shortcut to hide the app or use the ⌘M keyboard shortcut to minimize it. The issue with minimizing an app is that you cannot recall the app using the ⌘Tab keyboard shortcut.

Supercharge option to Unminimize apps with Command-Tab

I know you can hold down the Option key to bring up the app, but it has always felt like doing finger gymnastics. There’s a tweak in Supercharge that solves this issue. To turn on this feature, go to Settings → Tweaks, and turn on the toggle for “Unminimize windows when app becomes active,” option.

4. Cut and paste files

One of the first Mac tricks I teach Windows users when they switch to Mac is how to cut and paste files. On Mac, there’s no ⌘X keyboard shortcut to cut. Instead, you use ⌘C to copy and ⌘⌥V to move the file to a new location.

Supercharge tweak to Cut and paste files.jpg

With Supercharge, you can enable the “Move files with cut and paste” tweak to use the more intuitive ⌘X to cut and ⌘V to paste file system. You can find this option in the Tweaks section of the app’s Settings.

5. Prevent accidental app quits

In macOS, you can use the keyboard shortcut ⌘W to close an app’s window and ⌘Q to quit an app. However, since these two keys are next to each other on the keyboard, sometimes you accidentally quit an app instead of closing its window.

Supercharge tweak to Prevent accidental app quits

Supercharge can prevent this. You can go to the Tweaks section in the app’s settings and either turn off the ⌘Q keyboard shortcut or choose to quit the apps using Command+shift+Q (⌘⇧Q), ⌘ + double-tap Q, or press and hold ⌘Q keyboard shortcuts.

I use the Command+double-tap Q option to quit the apps. Now, I never accidentally quit any app on my Mac.

The Finder's right-click context menu is pretty bare bones. Supercharge allows you to add as many items as you want. For example, I have added items that let me copy a file path, view file size, open the AirDrop menu, and change the folder color. You can add these context menu items from the Tweaks section of settings.

Pro Tip: If you don’t want to clutter your Finder’s context menu, you can enable these tweaks in the overflow menu. It will add a three-dot menu in the context menu, which will host all the tweaks you use.

7. Open Passwords with a shortcut

Apple Passwords app has a menu bar companion that lets you quickly access your passwords. However, there is no keyboard shortcut attached to it. You have to manually click on its menu bar item to access your passwords.

You can solve this issue with a setting, with a tweak, in supercharge. Open the Shortcuts menu in the app’s settings, and under the toggle menu bar item heading, you will find the passwords option.

You can assign a keyboard shortcut and use it to open the Passwords menu bar app. While you are here, you can also enable keyboard shortcuts for Supercharge itself, the Weather app, and the Now Playing menu bar item.

8. Change keyboard brightness

You can use the F1 and F2 keys on your MacBook to change the brightness of your MacBook display. However, there is no such option for increasing or decreasing your keyboard brightness. You have to open the Control Center and then use the keyboard brightness button to adjust the brightness on your MacBook's keyboard.

attaching keyboard shortcut to keyboard brightness control in supercharge

The Supercharge app allows you to manipulate your keyboard brightness with simple keyboard shortcuts. You can access this feature from the shortcut section of your app settings.

9. App window actions in Mission Control

Mission Control is an amazing feature of macOS that lets you see all app windows at the same time. While this works great for switching between the app windows, you cannot perform any actions like closing a window or quitting the app from Mission Control.

Supercharge tweak to enable App window actions in Mission Control

Supercharge lets us do this. Once we enable this feature from the Tweaks section, we can use any of our modifier keyboard shortcuts, including ⌘W, ⌘Q, ⌘H, and ⌘M to quit an app, close an app’s window, hide an app, or minimize an app, directly from Mission Control. This makes managing app windows a lot easier and saves us a ton of time.

10. Mark hidden apps

There is no way to tell when an app has a hidden window because macOS gives you no indication of a hidden app. The only thing you can do is click on the apps in your Dock to see if it has a hidden open window.

But now you can change that with a tweak in Supercharge. Just enable the tweak for dim icons of hidden apps, and whenever you hide an app, its icon will fade. Now, you can know which app has an open but hidden window.

Bonus

Supercharge also gives you access to several quick settings of macOS via its menu bar items. You can hide all windows, show the desktop, toggle between dark and light modes, turn on grayscale colors, and so much more. You can also assign keyboard shortcuts to these settings to quickly toggle them on or off.

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Supercharge for Mac: final thoughts

Supercharge is a powerful Mac app. It relives several pain points I have with macOS. Thanks to its extensive support for keyboard shortcuts, I can also perform tasks in a much faster way.