PresButan alternative
Tasto does the same — rebuilt for current macOS.
Short and factual: what PresButan was, what Tasto does the same, and what was added in the rebuild. The replacement is free and needs macOS 14 or newer.
What PresButan was
PresButan was a small background program for the Mac: Return or Enter opened the selection in the Finder, the delete keys moved it to the trash. Exactly what switchers from Windows miss — and Brian Kendall's much-appreciated PresButan solved that problem for many years. Tasto owes it the idea.
On the developer's page, version 1.4 is the latest (compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 and later; page last changed in 2023). Tasto is a rebuild for macOS 14 and newer, developed and tested on current systems.
What Tasto does the same
The two core mappings this is all about are identical:
- Return and Enter open the selection in the Finder — instead of renaming.
- Delete and fn⌫ move the selection to the trash.
Like PresButan, Tasto is a quiet background tool: it sits in the menu bar, has no Dock icon and only steps in while the Finder is frontmost.
What was added
Tasto isn't an update, it's a rebuild for macOS 14 and newer (tested on macOS 27). A few things mattered to us in the rebuild:
- Rename detection: via the accessibility interface, Tasto detects whether a text field is focused — renaming, search — or a dialog is open. Then the keys pass through unchanged.
- ⌘Return renames: the old Return behaviour stays reachable, it just moves.
- Toggles instead of all-or-nothing: every mapping can be switched off individually, a pause toggle sits in the menu.
- Free: the PresButan functions — Return opens, Delete to the trash — stay free, forever. Direct download, no tracking, no ads, no user data.
- Six languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese.
Tasto Pro is in the works: Cut & Paste (⌘X/⌘V) and "close quits the app" are meant to join. The PresButan replacement itself stays free.
For those extras there are standalone apps too: Command X (by Sindre Sorhus, on the Mac App Store) lets you cut and paste files in the Finder, Swift Quit quits apps when you close their last window. Each covers a single function. Tasto carries PresButan's idea forward — built for macOS 14 and newer, rename-aware, and all in one app.
As of: October 2026, source: vendor information.
More details on the Tasto page.
Same keys, new tool. Free, for macOS 14+.
Coming soon as a direct download
More about TastoTasto is an independent product and is not affiliated with the developer of PresButan.