Separate Work and Personal on macOS in One Click
Remote work on one Mac means cross-contamination: work notifications during dinner, personal tabs in a screenshare. ShiftPlus lets you keep two workspaces — Work and Personal — with distinct browser profiles, apps, and quick links, and switch the whole thing with a hotkey when the day starts or ends.
- Work workspace: Slack on the work team, Chrome with the work Google account, VSCode, calendar, work documents. Personal workspace: personal browser, Spotify, messaging, hobby projects.
- Browser profile isolation across 10 browsers — work cookies don't leak into personal tabs and vice versa.
- Restore window layouts across Spaces — Work on Desktop 1, Slack always on Desktop 2, no mental gymnastics.
- End-of-day in one keystroke: ⌘; toggles to Personal. No app-by-app close ritual.
- Optional iCloud Sync (Pro) — same workspaces on a second Mac. Window-IDs stay local, so it's not a clone, just a config sync.
- No telemetry, no account, no employer monitoring — ShiftPlus has no server and never sees your workspace data.
Why one Mac is enough
Carrying a 'work-only' second laptop solves the problem with hardware. ShiftPlus solves it with software: same Mac, same files, two clean contexts. Start of day: open Work. End of day: ⌘; to Personal. The OS does the rest.