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.

Downloading WindowManager 10.11