The Best 46 Spectacle Alternatives

  • Shiftit icon

    Shiftit

    ShiftIt is an application for OSX that allows you to quickly manipulate window position and size using keyboard shortcuts. It intends to become a full featured window organizer for OSX.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • Divvy icon

    Divvy

    Divvy is an entirely new way of managing your workspace. It allows you to quickly and efficiently "divvy up" your screen into exact portions. With Divvy, it is as simple as calling up the interface, clicking and dragging.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • Preme for Windows icon

    Preme for Windows

    Preme is a free software for Windows which lets you add cool desktop features and enhances the desktop functionality.

    Free Windows

  • altdrag icon

    altdrag

    AltDrag allows you to move and resize windows much easier. When you have it running you can simply hold down the Alt key and then use your mouse to drag any window, and it doesn't matter where in the window you click.

    Free Open Source Windows

    Portable Snap windows Window Resizing
  • Cinch icon

    Cinch

    Cinch is Aero Snap for Macs- it offers simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as hot zones.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • BetterSnapTool icon

    BetterSnapTool

    BetterSnapTool is a utility that mimics Windows 7 Aero snap, allowing you to easily manage your window positions and sizes by either dragging them to one of your screens corners or to the top, left or right side of your screen.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • HyperDock icon

    HyperDock

    HyperDock adds Windows 7 like features and more to Mac OS X. Select individual application windows & tabs just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Moom icon

    Moom

    Moom allows you to easily move and zoom windows to predefined areas of the screen, or to make them full-screen, using either the mouse or the keyboard.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • SizeUp icon

    SizeUp

    SizeUp allows you to quickly position a window to fill exactly half the screen (splitscreen), a quarter of the screen (quadrant), full screen, or centered via the menu bar or configurable system-wide shortcuts (hotkeys).

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Amethyst icon

    Amethyst

    Amethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • Magnet (Windows Manager) icon

    Magnet (Windows Manager)

    Every time you want to copy content from one app to the other, compare files side by side or multitask in any other way, you need all the windows arranged accordingly....

    Commercial

  • Windownaut icon

    Windownaut

    Windownaut is versatile window management app that let's you define keyboard shortcuts and active areas on your screen to resize an position the windows on your...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • WinNumpad Position icon

    WinNumpad Position

    WinNumpad Positioner is a lightweight and snappy Windows management tool that repositions Windows using simple Windows Key + Numpad combinations.

    Free Windows

  • Mjolnir icon

    Mjolnir

    mjolnir - Lightweight automation and productivity app for OS X Mjolnir is an OS X app that lets you automate common tasks using the language Lua. At its core, it...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • Stack WM icon

    Stack WM

    Manage your windows on multiple monitors. Define a screen layout and make all your apps adhere to it.

    Commercial