A look at Hyperspaces: cool, and possibly useful.

Hyperspaces is a new app that aims to add in some features to Apple’s Spaces that are in many other virtual desktop programs. It offers custom space names, different desktop backgrounds for different spaces, on-desktop labels, color tinting, and more. While it offers quite a few ways to differentiate spaces, it doesn’t quite seem worth the RAM space it takes up yet.

Personally, I would only use Hyperspaces for a little bit of spice in my Spaces experience. I find it pretty easy to stay oriented within four spaces. For others with upwards of six spaces, this could turn from UI-sparkle into a really useful app. The desktop labels are really customizable—from font, style, size, and color to position on screen. Unfortunately, when moving from a labeled space to an unlabeled one, it renders an animated exit for the label which is both distracting and choppy. I want the label to slide out along with the desktop, as if it was just a part of the desktop picture.

Hyperspaces also eats up quite a bit of RAM and really doesn’t blend in seamlessly, because it is a little slow and choppy. With luck, they will fix this with version 1.0.

You, yes you, can download the free public preview now.

Product [Hyperspaces]