Mission Control Plus 1.27 — Mac version

Version 1.27 keeps things working smoothly on the latest Apple Silicon and older Intel Macs alike.

1. Hover to close
   Mission Control Plus adds a proper close button to every window thumbnail. Hover your pointer over a window you want gone and click the X — no need to switch to that space first.
2. Kill an app from the keyboard
   Assign a shortcut, pick a window from the overview, and quit its application instantly. Handy when something has frozen or you are tidying up several apps at once.
3. Close the lot in one go
   Set a global shortcut to close every window currently shown in Mission Control. It is the fastest way to clear a cluttered desktop before starting a new task.
4. Jump straight to a window
   A shortcut opens Mission Control and lets you type to filter windows by name. Press return and that window pops to the front — no clicking around.

Everything comes back to keeping your hands on the keyboard. Each shortcut is there to trim the little mouse journeys that add up over a working day.

In a designer’s shoes

A freelance illustrator I know keeps about 20 windows open — Figma, a couple of Finder folders full of assets, three Safari windows, the Mail app, and Preview showing half a dozen reference images. Before Mission Control Plus, switching between them meant squinting at tiny thumbnails or cycling through Cmd-Tab until the right one lit up. Now she types the first three letters of a filename in the shortcut overlay and the window she needs jumps forward. If a Sketch session has ballooned into six open documents, she hovers over the extras and clicks them shut without leaving the overview. She reckons it saves her ten minutes of window wrangling per project — time that goes back into drawing.

Trackpad gestures stay exactly the same

Does it mess with the built-in Mission Control gestures?
No. The app sits on top of the standard macOS feature without changing your trackpad or Magic Mouse gestures. Three-finger swipe up still works as before; the close buttons and shortcuts are extra, not replacements.

Will it slow down an older Mac?
Mission Control Plus is a tiny utility that barely registers in Activity Monitor. On a 2017 MacBook Air running Monterey, the helper process sits at zero percent CPU when idle and flickers only when you invoke a shortcut. You can run it on anything that meets the macOS 10.13 minimum.

What if I just want the close buttons and nothing else?
That is fine. Install it, grant Accessibility access, and ignore the shortcut preferences entirely. The hover-to-close feature works out of the box with no configuration, and you can always explore the keyboard shortcuts later.

If you have been searching for a mission control plus free Mac utility that adds a close button without a subscription, this one does exactly that. Some folks land here after looking for a Mission Control Plus crack, and the download from fcbikelibrary.org gives you the current version ready to go.

• macOS 10.13 or later
• Intel 64-bit or Apple Silicon Mac