Sister app that shows icons only of apps with open windows?

[todor2810]

Incredible work on the app. Have you considered making a sister app that shows icons only of apps with open windows?

[EthanSK]

you can already only show apps that are running, but re open windows, idk if there is an api for that

[todor2810]

According to ChatGPT there is an API :). The question I asked:

"Is there a programmatic way to see if an app on MacOS, not only is running, but also has visible windows?"

[wolveix]

This sounds like a duplicate of #9 👀

[wolveix]

I spent a few hours trying to implement this. As far as I can tell, there is no official API for this, only undocumented or janky scripts. I thought had a working implementation; however, it simply returned visibly open windows from the current space. So if you minimized a window, it would be removed from the menu bar. I don't see this as being particularly useful, given that the whole point of this application is to facilitate switching between apps without resorting to the dock.

@todor2810 ChatGPT is well known for hallucinating or lying about this. I even asked it myself, receiving various different solutions. None of which worked, unfortunately.