Download Mission Control Plus for macOS

It runs on any Mac with macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or newer, covering both Intel and Apple Silicon machines. If your system can open Mission Control, this little helper slots right in.

Close, quit, or force quit from the overview

Think of it as a small set of extra controls. You get a close button on every window thumbnail inside Mission Control, plus keyboard shortcuts to quit apps or kill stuck processes without leaving the overview.

Can it tidy up fast?

Yes. A single shortcut can close every open window at once, and another lets you minimise windows straight from the keyboard. It takes the existing Mission Control view and gives it more direct actions.

Supported languages

Clearing a dozen Finder windows fast

I spread a dozen Finder windows, a few Safari tabs pulled out into their own spaces, plus Slack and Notes. It looks like a paper storm. Four fingers up on the trackpad — Mission Control opens.

Right away I spot three windows I no longer need. Before Mission Control Plus, I’d have to click each one, bring it forward, then hit Cmd-W. Now each thumbnail has a small close button in its top-left corner. I hover and click it off, one after the other, without ever leaving the overview. Gone.

Next I want to quit Pixelmator Pro entirely. I tap the shortcut I set — Option-Q — while its windows are visible in Mission Control. The app quits instantly. I didn’t switch to it, didn’t open a menu.

Finally, a stray Preview window sits on desktop three. I arrow-key over to its thumbnail and press the shortcut for opening a window. It pops forward, ready to work. Total time: maybe fifteen seconds.

Small conveniences you’d miss at first

A few things only surface after a week with the app.

• The close button on thumbnails only appears when you hover near it. It stays out of your way the rest of the time, so Mission Control still looks clean.
• You can assign a shortcut to minimise a window right from the overview. If you’re not ready to close something but want it out of sight, this keeps your flow going without a mouse click.
• The kill process shortcut works on frozen apps. If an app stops responding, you don’t need to open Activity Monitor — just invoke Mission Control, target its windows, and use the shortcut you assigned for force-quitting the active process.
• All shortcuts are set in the app’s preferences pane. They use standard macOS key-recording fields, so combinations like Cmd-Shift-Option-W are easy to configure, even if you already have overlapping global shortcuts from other tools.

A window-heavy user’s real morning

A technical writer I know runs a dual-display setup. By 10 a.m., she has Safari, Bear, Xcode, Terminal, and Preview open, often with six or more windows per app. She used to rely on Cmd-Tab and Cmd-` to cycle through everything, losing track of which document sat where.

Now she flicks open Mission Control with a hot corner. From there, she closes the three leftover Safari windows left from researching a doc change, quits Terminal without switching into it, and opens the right Xcode project — all from the bird’s-eye view. Her Dock stays sparse because she doesn’t need to click icons to switch apps anymore. She told me it cut her window-hunting time by at least half, especially when juggling builds and drafts across screens.

If you manage many windows and use mission control plus macos daily, the muscle memory builds quickly — the shortcuts become as automatic as Cmd-Space for Spotlight.

The interface comes in English, Italian, French, and Czech. It picks up your system language automatically where it matches.

• macOS 10.13 or later
• Intel and Apple Silicon Macs