Top 15 Better Window Manager Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

A tiny window management app for the Mac.

1. QuickTile

QuickTile A lightweight utility for allowing you to quickly snap windows to a tiling grid under your existing Linux window manager. Can be triggered via keyboard shortcuts, the command line, or D-Bus calls.......

2. Magnet (Windows Manager)

Magnet (Windows Manager) Every time you want to copy content from one app to the other, compare files side by side or multitask in any other way, you need all the windows arranged accordingly. Magnet makes this process clean and simple. In just one drag to the edge, you snap any window into......

3. Cinch

Cinch Cinch is Aero Snap for Macs- it offers simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as hot zones. Cinching to the left or right edges of the screen will resize the window to fill exactly half the screen, allowing you to easily......

4. Windownaut

Windownaut Windownaut is versatile window management app that let's you define keyboard shortcuts and active areas on your screen to resize an position the windows on your desktop.......

5. Deskovery

Deskovery Deskovery is an all in one windows manager for OS X.- Windowshade (or minimize to title bars)- Change Transparency- Resize & align- Drag to resize- Pin in all spaces- 10.9 zoom button behaviour on Yosemite- Wobbly windows......

6. AROW

AROW AROW is a lightweight and efficient app that makes it as easy as possible for you to arrange, resize, organize windows in ways that are just above OS X’s capabilities.This said, AROW enables you to quickly manage your windows with the help of keyboard shortcuts, by dragging the windows towards......

7. Optimal Layout

Optimal Layout Optimal Layout is a powerful Mac OS X application for managing your applications windows. Optimal Layout gives you keyboard shortcuts to instantly organize your windows and simple ways to layout windows with your mouse.......

8. WinSplit Revolution

WinSplit Revolution WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate.......

9. Sizer

Sizer Sizer is a freeware utility that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. This is extremely useful when designing web pages, as it allows you to see how the page will look when viewed at a smaller size. The utility is also handy when compiling screen-shots......

10. SizeUp

SizeUp SizeUp allows you to quickly position a window to fill exactly half the screen (splitscreen), a quarter of the screen (quadrant), full screen, or centered via the menu bar or configurable system-wide shortcuts (hotkeys). Similar to "tiled windows" functionality available on other operating systems.Additional features include moving windows from one......

11. Keypad Layout

Keypad Layout Keypad Layout is an easy to use, open source window layout manager for Mac that lets you control windows using using Ctrl + Numeric Keypad combinations.......

12. Breeze

Breeze Breeze gives you simple window management on Mac OS X through a concept called “window states”.When you assign a keyboard shortcut to a window state, Breeze remembers the relative size and position of the focused window.At any point, you can apply that state (size and position) like a template to......

13. TileWindows

TileWindows TileWindows helps you to easily organize your desktop: Move and resize your application windows, so you can view them side by side, by using keyboard shortcuts. All shortcuts are customizable.......

14. KWin

KWin KWin is a window manager for the X Window System, and is in the process of becoming a Wayland compositor. It is an integral part, and the default window manager of the Plasma Workspaces, but it can also be used on its own or with other desktop environments.......

15. WinDock

WinDock WinDock is a window manager ideal for large, or multi-monitor setups.Features:-Easy and intuitive drag-and-drop action to simplify moving and resizing Windows. -Highly customizable docking rules that specify how you want your windows to behave.-Multiple rule profiles/layouts that can be created and easily switched between.......