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So, long story short, you can position a window in any pre-defined spot with a keyboard shortcut, be that position on the current display or one of your external displays. And to get back to where you started, Control + Option + Delete restores the window in the pre-Magnet position.

Control + Option + R/T put a window into a two-thirds position.

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When you get into snapping windows to thirds, you can use Control + Option + D/F/G to move a window to the left, middle, or right third. Control + Option + Command + left/right sends a window to the next or previous display. Control + Option + C puts a window in the center of the display. Control + Option + left/right sends any window to the left or right half of the display, while Control + Option + Return maximizes the window. Every window position has a default keyboard shortcut, which I’ve grown accustomed to. Keyboard warriors will be happy to see Magnet’s customizable list of keyboard shortcuts. You can drag a window to the bottom of the display to snap the window to a third or two-thirds window, while dragging to any of the four corners snaps the window to that corner. If you grab a window and drag that window to any edge of the display, Magnet will provide a greyed-out popover of the screen to preview the window placement. I am, of course, a fan of the latter option. Magnet provides two simple ways to manage windows: using the mouse to snap windows into place, or extensive and customizable keyboard shortcuts. To have Magnet send the window to the true center of the display, you’ll need to have your dock positioned at the bottom of the display. One annoyance though: “Center” in Magnet terminology means the “center of the usable display”, which means Magnet centers the window between the outer edge of the display and the edge of the dock if you keep your dock on the right or left.

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This is useful for taking full-screen screenshots and putting into a mockup or Apple Frame, or for sharing a professional screencast with someone. I also appreciate the ability to center a window on the display. Once on the other display, another keyboard shortcut can put that window into position for work.Īll without taking your hands off the keyboard. User a Hyper keyboard shortcut ( Control + Option + Command) and the right or left arrow, you can send the frontmost window to your other display. However, lifting your hands from the keyboard to click and drag those windows into position is an incredible annoyance. When working with external displays, you have the freedom to spread out your work and view things side-by-side. The last four options are where Magnet shines.

Left third, left two-thirds, center third, right two-thirds, and right third.

Top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom right quarter.

The standards are there, but there are a few extras that I find particularly useful for taking screenshots or for sharing screens. Out of the box, Magnet has 18 different window management options. Best of all, Magnet goes far beyond what you find as default in Windows 11. Many folks like Moom or BetterSnapTool, but I use Magnet for window management on macOS. If you want Windows 11-level window management on macOS, you’ll need a third-party app. Combine this with the Windows-key keyboard shortcuts for shooting windows right, left, up, and down, and you have fantastic window management support baked right in. Hovering over the maximize button in the top right corner provides a plethora of window management options - you can send the window to any of the four corners, to a third or two-thirds of the display, to half of the display, or even send one window to half of the display with the other windows taking the remaining quarters of the display. Windows 11 blows macOS out of the water here. Clicking and holding the full-screen green button in the top left provides four options: full-screen (and this is macOS’s full-screen, so it creates a whole new space for the full-screen app), tiled left or right, or the ability to send the window to an iPad in Sidecar. MacOS’s built-in window management features are sub par, to say the least. All you need is one point of friction on a single display, be that a wanting to view two PDFs side-by-side or wanting a narrow waterfall app (like Tweetbot) to be set beside a browser page for reading.Įxternal displays exacerbate the need, though.

It doesn’t take multiple external displays for someone to find a need for a window management app.