Guides

Mac window management, explained

Best window manager for Mac (2026): how to choose

Snapping, tiling or scrolling? A plain-English guide to choosing a Mac window manager in 2026, with Rectangle, Magnet, Moom, AeroSpace, yabai, scrolling managers and Transom.

Why your windows move when you dock your MacBook, and how to fix it

macOS rearranges windows when you connect or disconnect an external display. Here's why it happens, the built-in settings that help, and how to make layouts restore automatically.

Scrolling window managers for Mac: niri and PaperWM-style options compared

niri and PaperWM don't run on macOS, but several Mac apps recreate the scrolling layout. Here's how Paneru, OmniWM, Ribbon, ChainYourMac, LanesMac, PaperWM.spoon and Transom differ.