Snap, tile and resize windows with shortcuts or drag zones.
Free keyboard shortcuts and snap areas for windows
Moves and resizes windows with keyboard shortcuts or by dragging them to screen edges and corners. Repeating a shortcut cycles through sizes.
Our take The default recommendation: free, simple and actively maintained. If you only need halves and quarters, try the built-in tiling first, since it now covers that.
FreeMIT licenceby Ryan Hanson
Window layouts, snap zones and a pop-up palette
Moves and zooms windows through a pop-up palette on the green button, snap zones, keyboard control and chained actions. It can save and restore whole window layouts, for example when you plug in an external display.
Our take Best for people who switch between a laptop screen and external displays and want layouts restored with one action. It takes some setup to get the most out of it.
$15 one-time as of Oct 2026by Many Tricks
Rectangle plus window throws, custom sizes and layouts
A paid superset of Rectangle that adds a window throw gesture with 16 positions, custom sizes and positions, snap targets anywhere, saved app layouts and iCloud settings sync.
Our take For Rectangle users who want saved layouts and more control without moving to a full tiling manager. One license works on 3 devices.
$9.99 as of Oct 2026by Ryan Hanson
Radial-menu window manager, free and open source
Hold a trigger key and move the cursor in a direction to move and resize the window, with a live preview. It also supports keyboard shortcuts, repeatable cycles and stashing windows at the screen edge.
Our take A nice free alternative to Rectangle if you prefer mouse or trackpad gestures to memorizing shortcuts. The radial menu and preview can both be customized or turned off.
FreeGPL-3.0 licence
Simple drag-to-snap tiling from the Mac App Store
Snaps windows into halves, quarters and thirds by dragging them to screen edges, with keyboard shortcuts and a menu bar menu. Supports up to six external displays.
Our take Easy to set up and cheap, but built-in macOS tiling now does most of what people bought it for. Its main remaining extra is thirds.
$4.99 on the Mac App Store as of Oct 2026
Cheap snapping with custom snap areas
Snaps windows by dragging them to corners or the top, left or right side of the screen, and lets you define custom snap areas anywhere. It also offers keyboard shortcuts and moving or resizing windows while holding a key.
Our take A low-cost upgrade over built-in tiling if you want your own snap zones. From the makers of BetterTouchTool, which includes similar window features if you already own it.
$1.99 on the Mac App Store as of Oct 2026by folivora.AI GmbH
i3-style automatic tiling window manager
A tiling window manager inspired by i3 that arranges windows automatically in a tree and uses its own virtual workspaces. It is configured with a plain text file and controlled from the keyboard and command line.
Our take For developers and keyboard-heavy users who want every window tiled automatically. It does not require disabling SIP, but it is beta software, is not notarized, and has a real learning curve.
FreeMIT licence
No app in this category matches that filter.
| App | Price | Model | Open source | App Store |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rectangle |
Free | Free | MIT | – |
| Moom |
$15 | Paid | – | – |
| Rectangle Pro |
$9.99 | Paid | – | – |
| Loop |
Free | Free | GPL-3.0 | – |
| Magnet |
$4.99 | Paid | – | Yes |
| BetterSnapTool |
$1.99 | Paid | – | Yes |
| AeroSpace |
Free | Free | MIT | – |
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Help me choose the right window manager for my Mac. Read https://dockpicks.com/window-management/ and its plain-text version, https://dockpicks.com/window-management.md. Ask me which Mac I have, what I use it for and my budget, then recommend a short list from that page with the free and paid trade-offs, and say if the tool built into macOS is enough.