Alternatives to Rectangle

Snap macOS windows to halves, thirds, quarters and corners with keyboard shortcuts or by dragging to an edge. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Rectangle.

  • Amethyst

    Arrange macOS windows automatically with a keyboard-driven tiling manager.

    FreeOpen sourcemacOS

    Amethyst is a free MIT-licensed macOS manager that tiles windows automatically with keyboard navigation, instead of snapping each window to a region yourself.

  • yabai

    A tiling window manager for macOS that arranges windows by binary space partitioning and is driven entirely from the command line.

    FreeOpen sourcemacOSCommand line

    yabai tiles macOS windows automatically by binary space partitioning and is driven from the command line, but has no built-in hotkeys and some features need System Integrity Protection partly disabled.

  • GlazeWM

    An i3-style tiling window manager for Windows and macOS, configured in one YAML file.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOS

    GlazeWM offers i3-style keyboard tiling configured in one YAML file and also runs on Windows, though its macOS support is much newer than its Windows side.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Rectangle as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • AquaSnap

    Adds magnetic window snapping, docking, tiling and stretching to Windows, going well past what Aero Snap does.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindows

    Rectangle offers keyboard and drag-to-edge snapping to halves, thirds and quarters, but runs on macOS instead of Windows and is open source under MIT.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.