The biggest release since 1.0 — a second visual preset, mouse and touchpad input, type-to-filter search, and a log the app keeps about itself.
Two things to know if you are upgrading from 1.2:
- The classic cascade is unchanged, and still the default. Every new look is a preset you opt into.
- The new input paths are opt-in. Mouse interaction and search stay off until you turn them on, so an upgrade never quietly changes the switcher you already know. Touchpad gestures are the one addition that is on by default — the master switch is in Controls → Navigation.
Appearance
- Visual preset — the classic Cascade, or the new Cover Flow: a centered carousel with the selected window flat in the middle and the rest fanning out and leaning outward on a common floor plane
- Reflections (default off) — a soft glass-floor mirror under every tile, in both presets
- The Appearance page now renders a live 3D preview of your actual configuration instead of a mockup
Input
- Mouse in the cascade (default off) — hovering lifts the tile under the pointer, clicking picks that window, middle-click closes it and the right button drags the stack
- Touchpad gestures (default on) — a two-finger diagonal opens the cascade, two-finger swipes cycle it, a tap commits and the reversed stroke cancels; finger count, direction, sensitivity and smoothing are all configurable
- Window snap (default on) — turn it off and the mouse drag and touchpad swipe scrub the stack continuously instead of stepping window by window, settling onto the nearest one when released
- Commit, cancel and close-window keys are now rebindable (Enter, Escape and Delete by default), each set by pressing it
Search (default off)
- Type while the cascade is open and it narrows to the matching windows — matching the owning program's name as well as the window title, so
chromefinds a tab whose title mentions neither - Filtered-out windows leave on the close animation and rise back into place when you clear what you typed
- Themed on-screen field, freely positioned and scalable. Requires Toggle activation
Diagnostics
- CKFlip3D now records every failure it can detect with a stable code and a severity, shown as counts in the Settings sidebar — and only when there is something to report
- New Log page: one tile per problem, worst first, with when it last happened and how often
- The log lives in
%APPDATA%\CKFlip3D\diagnostics.jsonland is never sent anywhere
Installer
- Upgrading over a running copy now asks the core to shut down cleanly, so its windows are un-cloaked and the taskbar restored before it is replaced
Install: download CKFlip3D.Setup.exe below and run it. The .NET 10 Desktop Runtime is bootstrapped automatically if missing.
Requires Windows 11. Binaries are Authenticode-signed as publisher CYMERKAROL.