Hand your desktop to the keyboard

7 apps

Window management is not about looking tidy, it is about moving the mouse less. Here are tiling layouts, snapping, cycling and corner zooming, each taking a different approach.

01 / Hand your desktop to the keyboard

Rectangle Pro

An enhanced macOS window manager offering cursor-based movement, keyboard shortcuts and snap areas, with one key combo throwing a window to any of sixteen preset sizes and positions.

Rectangle Pro
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Free

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AeroSpace

A tiling window manager for macOS in the spirit of i3. Windows are organised in a tree, moved between positions and workspaces with shortcuts, switches happen instantly without animation, and configuration lives in a plain text file. It suits developers coming from i3 or sway who want the same model on macOS.

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Free

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yabai

A tiling window manager for macOS that arranges windows with a binary space partitioning algorithm, filling the screen without gaps. It supports multiple spaces, window stacking, and adjustable gaps and padding, and pairs with skhd for keyboard control. It suits developers who keep several terminals and editors open at once.

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Free

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Loop

A macOS window manager built around elegance. Hold a modifier and a radial menu appears around the cursor, then drag the window in a direction to snap it into that layout, which is intuitive and needs no shortcut memorisation. It suits people who organise windows with the mouse but find manual dragging tedious.

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Free

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Moom

A macOS window management toolkit offering edge-triggered resizing, screen regions, move-to-zone actions and window cycling. It suits people who want precise control over where windows sit.

Moom
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Free

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Swish

A gesture enhancer for the Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse that lets you remap swipe directions, distances and multi-finger actions, and combine them with modifier keys for more control.

Swish
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Free

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Wins

A macOS window manager with Windows-style layout, quick splitting, dock previews and keyboard shortcuts, easing the switch for people used to a Windows layout.

Wins
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Free

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