Author: Justin Pot / Source: howtogeek.com
Organizing windows on macOS is a pain—you’ve got to drag and resize everything manually. Happily, there are a bunch of apps that can help.
Placing and resizing windows is tedious but necessary if you want to work with multiple windows at once, and macOS doesn’t offer a lot of ways to make things faster.
It would be nice if Apple added features like window snapping and keyboard shortcuts for placement, but until that happens, we’ll have to rely on third-party applications. The good news: there are a lot of great choices.Note that you’ll need to enable accessibility features to use any of these applications, so read up on that if you need a little guidance.
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BetterTouchTool ($6.50): Window Snapping and So Much More
BetterTouchTool is the ultimate Mac customization tool. You can create custom trackpad gestures to do just about anything, design any keyboard shortcuts you want, and even add custom Touch Bar buttons.
With all those features it’s easy to overlook the window management offerings, but you really shouldn’t. This program brings Windows-style window snapping to macOS, meaning you can drag any window to the side of the screen to quickly make it take up half the screen.
You can also drag a window to the top of the screen to make it take up the entire space, or to a corner to make it take up one-quarter. Even better: move a window away from it’s snapped position and it will shrink back to its previous size.
This is all really nice, but BetterTouchTool also lets you design custom touchpad gestures or keyboard shortcuts for arranging windows even more quickly, and to a number of other specifications. I like to use a two-thirds one-third split, for…
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