Help with SnapForMac

It snaps windows into place on your Mac: halves, quarters, thirds and whole layouts, by keyboard shortcut, by dragging a window to an edge, or from a Snap Layouts bar at the top of the screen. It is built for putting two or three windows side by side.

Any Mac running macOS 13 Ventura or later, with Apple Silicon or an Intel chip.

Snap to halves and quarters, maximise, centre and restore by keyboard, drag a window to an edge or a corner, move windows between displays, and use the Snap Layouts bar 5 times a day. That part is free with no time limit.

macOS lets one app move another app's window only through the Accessibility permission. SnapForMac uses it to read where a window is and to move and resize it, and for nothing else.

macOS 15 can place a window in a half or a quarter. SnapForMac adds what it leaves out: the Snap Layouts bar with six layouts, filling the other zones from a list of your open windows, pairing two windows in one shortcut, and thirds. It also runs on macOS 13 and 14, which have no tiling of their own.

In the menu bar, at the top right of the screen. There is no Dock icon unless you switch "Show in Dock" on in Settings.

A window that is full screen, minimised or a dialog cannot be moved, and the app says so. A window that cannot be resized is moved and centred in its zone at the size it has.

No. SnapForMac is a Mac app only.

Three ways: press Control, Option and Space, click Snap Layouts in the menu-bar popover, or drag a window to the top of the screen.

The empty zones of the layout list your other open windows, each with its app name and title. Click one, or press its number, and it fills that zone.

No. It shows the app's name and the window's title. Pictures of windows would need the Screen Recording permission, and SnapForMac does not ask for it.

5 snaps a day. The count starts again each day. SnapForMac Pro has no daily limit.

It does not look. The app reads a window's position, size, title and owning app so it can move it. It does not read the text or contents of any window.

No. Shortcuts are registered with macOS as named key combinations. The part of the app that watches for a window being dragged listens to the mouse only, never the keyboard.

Three things: a licence check to our payment provider if you have a key, a request to snapformac.com for announcements that carries only the app's name and version, and a check for a new version. Nothing about your windows, apps or shortcuts is ever sent.

No. The free version needs nothing. Pro is a licence key you paste into Settings.

No. It starts at $14.99, paid once. There is nothing to renew.

It depends on the size you buy: 2 Macs for $14.99, 5 Macs for $29.99, 10 Macs for $49.99. In Settings, on the Subscription page, you can deactivate a Mac to free its place for another one.

Only the number of Macs one key can be active on: 2, 5 or 10. Every size unlocks the same features, and each is paid once.

The Snap Layouts bar without a daily limit, pairs with swap and the linked divider, thirds and two thirds, and shortcuts you can change.

Yes. The app checks the key with our payment provider when it can. If the check cannot be made, Pro stays on. Only a definite answer that the key is not valid switches it off.

Yes. If Pro is not for you, write to us and ask. We would rather refund you than keep an unhappy customer.

Nothing. They stay free, with no time limit and no trial that runs out.