Shiftit vs bettertouchtool windows#

You can set multi-application window “snapshots” in Moom, meaning with a single action you can tell windows from several apps to move into place. If you don’t like the position it snapped to, slightly moving it away will reset it’s size. If you use multiple screens, you can have it ignore the edges that border others. You can also enable window-edge snapping (like Cinch/Better Snap Tool) if you like. You can choose to run the app as a normal app (dock), menu bar app, or without any non-keyboard access at all. Those actions can be fired on the active window from customizable keyboard commands as well, or from the menu bar menu if you choose to run that app that way. One of it’s unique features is that it shows a menu as you hover over the maximize button on a window: Moom ($10) is quite powerful in that it can do any feature we’ve already covered, and more. One cool little feature is that scrolling in the title bar can do actions, like snapping up and down and even changing what space the window is in. It also has window management tools, including key commands to snap windows into place, and edge snapping. For example, showing bubble windows of all that applications windows when you hover over an app icon, as well as special control windows for certain apps. HyperDock ($6.95) offers a bunch of features to enhance how the Dock works. You can customize how fine-grained you want the grid to be, as well as set custom keyboard shortcuts for pre-defined placements of windows. You activate it either by pressing the icon in the menu bar, or setting a global shortcut key command. This allows for custom layouts quickly without custom configuration ahead of time. It gives you a little grid where you quickly draw where you want the window to go.

Divvyĭivvy ($13.99) takes a novel approach to window resizing. I think it’s everything Better Snap Tool can do, only way more, like customizing trackpad gestures and tons of other inputs types to do custom things.

If customizing is your thing, this is probably for you:īetter Touch Tool can do window snapping as well. You can add custom menus to buttons for custom click-types.

You can disable it with a customizable keyboard shortcut. You can control the spacing of window snapping pixel-by-pixel. You can create totally arbitrary area to snap windows to. Better Snap Toolīetter Snap Tool ($2.99) is a lot like Cinch, what with the “hot zones” for resizing windows into position:īetter Snap Tool is highly configurable. The key commands are also customizable in the preferences. The default key commands use the Option key (instead of without, like SizeUp), but you may prefer that. It has great defaults for immediately whooshing windows to halves, thirds, or quarters of the screen. Spectacle (free, donation requested) is pretty similar to SizeUp. You can use it in conjunction with a keyboard-shortcut-based window manager together, although you may end up preferring one or the other. Things to know: They say it works best with single-monitor setups. When you drag the screen against an edge, it will snap to cover that side of the screen. Rather than keyboard commands for resizing windows, it works by having hot zones along the edges of the screen. If you’re more into menu controls, that’s nicely designed with good defaults as well: CinchĬinch ($6.99) is by the same company as SizeUp (Irradiated Software). For me, 95% of my use of these tools is “YOU! Left Side! You! Right Side!”, so the very simple default built-in commands for this are great. SizeUp ($12.99) calls itself “The missing window manager”. So let’s look at the options! Fair warning: this page has a bunch of super-huge GIF files on it, as I thought that would be a useful way to show off these apps features. OS X El Capitan (10.11) brought some split screen stuff, but it has quite a few limitations and certainly isn’t fulfilling all the needs of the discerning nerd. Most Windows (the operating system) users I know quite like the built-in abilities it has to position windows, but there isn’t as much of that built into OS X. There is no shortage of apps to help you arrange windows.