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If you are looking for a high speed and accurate window manager, this will be your best bet.
However, one thing which goes in its favour is that it is more affordable. The only reason it did not top our list is the absence of the ability to customize the size of the app window. An app window can be resized in the top, bottom, left or right halves or to a quarter of your screen size in either of the four corners. You can use both keyboard shortcuts and trackpad to resize your windows. Magnet is the most reliable and snappiest window manager app of all the apps I tried.
This feature along with its snappy performance took BetterSnap Tool to the top of our list. This is a very handy feature to have as you can set the window size as per your preference. There is no restriction while designating the area and the size of the app window. Basically, users can predetermine the size of the app window and assign a designated area to which the window will be snapped. One of the major features which are lacking in other apps on our list is setting up customized snap areas. The same configurations can also be achieved by hitting the user customizable hotkeys. Dragging it to the top will make an app go full-screen. To initiate split-screen mode, just the drag the app window to the sides of the display. You can drag an app window in either of the four corners to resize them in a quarter of the screen size. Firstly, you can use both trackpad and keyboard to interact with the app. Although it received a tough competition from our second and third place apps, there are certain features which gave BetterSnap Tool an edge over the others. For more info check out the project page on GitHub.After using more than 20 window manager apps on my Mac, I came back to BetterSnap Tool to use as my personal tool. Once the app is authorized, check out its preferences to learn the predefined keyboard shortcuts or define your own and enable or disable window snapping. Once installed, open the app and click on its icon in the menu bar and authorize the app.
#Osx window snapping install#
Just download the dmg and install it ( mount the dmg file > drag-and-drop app to /Applications/ ) or install it via Homebrew with brew cask install rectangle.
Luckily the developer, with the help of the community, recommended Rectangle as an open source alternative. Perfect app for me but, even if it still works, it’s no longer actively maintained.
#Osx window snapping free#
It also needs to be free and open source and does not need to be installed from the Mac App Store.įor the last couple of years I’ve used Spectacle.
#Osx window snapping windows#
What suits my needs and fits my workflow is a simple app that allows me to manipulate windows using quick keyboard shortcuts. I can’t deal with i3, Awesome, XMoand or Openbox on Linux either. If that’s your thing, go ahead and check them out. Some more complex than others, like Amethyst and chunckwm. There are, of course, some free ones too. There are a bunch of window managers in the Mac App Store, and most of them are ridiculously expensive. So, naturally, most users look for an alternative. A feature as useful as the touchbar on macbooks. Apple introduced Split View with OS X El Capitan.
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