The App Switcher: Moving Between 17 Apps Without Losing Your Place
Piskes' app switcher lets you move between its 17 zone apps from one place, under one sign-on — a real, shipped feature distinct from workspace switching, which isn't built yet.
Multi-product suites live or die on their switcher. Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 are judged specifically on how well their app launchers preserve context when you move from mail to docs to a spreadsheet and back — comparison content in that space treats the switcher as a first-class feature, not an afterthought, because a suite with a dozen-plus apps and a bad way to move between them just feels like a dozen-plus separate products that happen to share a login page.
Piskes has a real, shipped app switcher. It's a genuine structural advantage over a competitor that's bolted together a set of separately acquired tools without ever building a unified way to move between them — the switcher is what makes 17 apps feel like one platform rather than 17 logins that happen to share a brand.
Where it lives
The switcher is implemented as its own page in Editor (frontend/apps/editor/src/app/(workspace)/apps/page.tsx, rendering AppsPage from components/admin/pages/AppsPage), giving you a direct view across the platform's apps to jump into whichever one you need next, all under the same sign-on — the same account access that got you into Editor carries you into Drive, Chat, CRM-adjacent surfaces, and the rest without a second login.
What it does, and what it doesn't do yet
It's worth being precise about scope, because "app switcher" and "workspace switcher" sound similar and aren't the same feature. What's shipped is moving between apps within your current workspace — Drive to Chat to Editor's own tools and back, without re-authenticating. What's not built yet is switching between different workspaces — if your account has access to more than one workspace, this switcher isn't the tool for moving between them. That's a known, distinct gap, not something this piece is going to imply works because app-switching does.
Why this distinction is worth stating plainly
It would be easy to describe "the app switcher" in a way that quietly implies broader capability than what's actually there — workspace switching is the more obviously enterprise-relevant feature, and it's tempting to fold it into the same sentence as app switching since they sound adjacent. They're not the same thing, and only one of them exists today. What's real and worth talking about is specific: moving between Piskes' 17 apps, preserving your session, without losing your place — a genuine, working piece of what makes this feel like one coherent platform rather than a loose collection of tools.