Alternatives to Mosaic
A paid Mac window manager that applies layouts by dragging windows onto a panel. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Mosaic
A paid Mac window manager that applies layouts by dragging windows onto a panel.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Mosaic.
Moom
A Mac window manager for moving, zooming and snapping windows and restoring saved window layouts.
Moom offers saved window layouts for different display setups and a pop-up palette on window buttons, sold as a one-time purchase with a free trial.
Magnet
A Mac app that snaps windows into halves, thirds, quarters and full screen by dragging or shortcut.
Magnet snaps windows into halves, thirds and quarters by dragging or shortcut, supports up to six displays, and is only on the Mac App Store.
Rectangle
Snap macOS windows to halves, thirds, quarters and corners with keyboard shortcuts or by dragging to an edge.
Rectangle snaps windows to halves, thirds and quarters by shortcut or drag-to-edge, and is free and open source rather than paid.
Rectangle Pro
A paid macOS window manager that moves and resizes windows with cursor throws, shortcuts and snap areas.
Rectangle Pro provides custom sizes, snap targets and workspace layouts triggered on display changes, and like Mosaic is paid and closed source.
Loop
An open-source macOS window manager that moves and resizes windows through a radial menu.
Loop picks window positions through a radial menu or shortcuts, and is free and GPL-3.0 open source, requiring macOS 13 or later.
BetterSnapTool
A Mac utility that snaps windows to halves, quarters or custom areas by dragging them to screen edges.
BetterSnapTool snaps windows to halves, quarters or custom areas by dragging to edges, is paid, and has no saved multi-window layouts.
Swish
A macOS app for snapping, resizing and controlling windows with trackpad and mouse gestures.
Swish snaps and resizes windows with trackpad and Magic Mouse gestures instead of a layout panel, and is paid after the trial.
SizeUp
A keyboard-driven macOS window manager that resizes and positions windows into halves, quarters and other displays.
SizeUp arranges windows into halves and quarters from the keyboard rather than by mouse, and its stated compatibility ends at macOS 14 Sonoma.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Amethyst
Arrange macOS windows automatically with a keyboard-driven tiling manager.
AeroSpace
An i3-like tiling window manager for macOS, written in Swift.
yabai
A tiling window manager for macOS that arranges windows by binary space partitioning and is driven entirely from the command line.
Phoenix
A lightweight macOS window and app manager that you configure and script with JavaScript.
Easy Move+Resize
A small macOS utility that moves and resizes windows with a modifier key and mouse drag.
PowerToys
Microsoft’s own bundle of more than thirty Windows utilities, from window layouts to a key remapper.
