The built-in tools give you only a few meager options for arranging your app windows in any sensible way, so if you want next-level window management, having a third-party utility like Magnet is where you want to be.Īs Josh Ginter explains over on our sister site, Magnet allows you to snap windows into place by either clicking and dragging with your mouse, or more interestingly, through the use of extensive and customizable keyboard shortcuts:

Spectacle app for Mac: an open-source windows manager for MAC which helps users easily organize windows without using a mouse.Window management on macOS is okay but leaves something to be desired. Download & buyīuy Magnet on Mac App Store here. In some cases the width can exceed half of your screen, particularly on small screens like Macbooks’. Certain apps require a minimal width of their window. Magnet can not do anything with non-standard windows used by some developers. Magnet comes with a default set of keyboard shortcuts, but you can reassign them in Preferences, accessible from the menu bar icon.

You can use keyboard shortcuts to resize and relocate windows.

There is also a restore option that returns your window to its size and location before you used Magnet to resize and move it.

If dragging doesn’t float your boat, you can use Magnet’s menu bar icon to choose a size and location for your current window.

You can drag windows to the sides and corners of your display to resize them and make them fullscreen, halves, quarters & thirds.

How to use Magnet to manage windows on Mac?

Built to run on all macOS versions since 10.9 Mavericks.

Runs both on Retina and regular displays.

Activated by keyboard shortcuts (customizable).

Fullscreen & all four Quarters of the screen supported.

Any Sixth-combination supported on ultra-wide screens.

Left Two Thirds & Right Two Thirds of the screen supported.

Left/Center/Right Thirds of the screen supported.

Left/Right/Top/Bottom Halves of the screen supported.

There is that little icon sitting in the Menu Bar where you can find a predefined set or create yours.

Magnet supports keyboard shortcuts as well, for every command it has to offer. Taking advantage of such arrangements eliminates app switching and greatly enhances workspace efficiency. Do the same on your ultra-wide monitor and arrange windows into sixths. Slide them to the bottom edge of your display to create thirds. And by dragging windows to the corners, you snap them into quarters. In one drag to the edge, you size a window into half of your screen.

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