Best Rectangle Alternatives for Mac in 2026

Why people leave Rectangle

Rectangle is free, open source and still maintained. Version 2.0.2 shipped on September 27, 2026. Most people who search for an alternative are not unhappy with it. They have hit one of its edges.

The usual reasons are specific. You want to drag windows around with the mouse instead of memorizing shortcuts. You want saved layouts that put five apps in place at once. You want windows to tile themselves without any input. Or you have three projects open and the problem is no longer where a window sits, it is which windows belong together.

Each of those needs points to a different tool. This list is ordered by how close each one stays to the Rectangle way of working, starting with the smallest step.

Rectangle Pro

Best for: Rectangle users who want more of the same

Rectangle Pro is a separate app from the same developer. Its main addition is the "throw": you trigger it anywhere on a window, even one that is not focused, and send it to one of 16 sizes and positions. It also adds custom snap areas, stashing windows behind a screen edge, pinning apps to a side, and workspace arrangements that place a whole set of apps with one shortcut.

Price: $9.99 one-time, 10-day free trial, one license covers 3 devices
Strengths: Familiar if you already use Rectangle. Workspace arrangements cover the "put these apps here" case. Menu bar commands sync over iCloud.
Limitations: Needs macOS 13.5 or later. It is paid, and the free Rectangle already covers basic snapping.

If you like Rectangle and only want saved arrangements and more snap targets, stop here. It is the cheapest upgrade on this page.

Loop

Best for: a free, mouse-friendly replacement

Loop works differently from Rectangle. You hold a trigger key and move the cursor in a direction, and a radial menu picks the window position. You can also bind keyboard shortcuts to the trigger key for specific actions. It is a good fit if Rectangle's long shortcut list never stuck in your head.

Price: Free and open source, GPLv3
Strengths: Gesture-like control without a trackpad. Install with brew install loop. Version 1.4.2 shipped in January 2026.
Limitations: Requires macOS 13 or later, and some features need macOS 15. It positions single windows, like Rectangle, so there are no saved layouts or groups.

macOS built-in tiling

Best for: people who want one less app

Since macOS Sequoia 15, the system tiles windows on its own. Drag a window to the left or right edge, a corner, or the menu bar, or hold Option while dragging for faster tiling. The Window menu has Move & Resize options, and Fn+Control+arrow keys snap the front window to a half. Arrangements like Left & Right place two windows at once.

Price: Free, ships with macOS
Strengths: Nothing to install. You can turn edge dragging, menu bar fill and margins on or off in System Settings, Desktop & Dock.
Limitations: Fewer positions than Rectangle and no custom sizes. Only on Sequoia and later.

Try this before installing anything. Plenty of people find halves and quarters are all they used Rectangle for. Our Sequoia tiling comparison covers it in more depth.

Moom

Best for: saved layouts and precise grids

Moom from Many Tricks has been around for years and does more than snapping. Hover over a window's green button for a palette of up to 61 custom actions. Draw a size on an on-screen grid. Save a layout of apps and windows and restore it later, which helps on a laptop that docks to an external display.

Price: $15, with at least a year of updates, free trial
Strengths: Saved layouts, action chains, snap zones, full keyboard control. Runs on macOS 10.13 and later.
Limitations: More settings to learn than Rectangle. Layouts restore positions but do not group windows into projects you switch between.

TileOrg

Best for: switching between several projects

Disclosure first: this is our app. If you only need to snap single windows, the free tools above are a better fit. TileOrg answers a different question.

Rectangle manages one window at a time. TileOrg manages groups. You create a named project, assign the terminal, editor and browser windows that belong to it, and tile them into panes once, using single, horizontal split, vertical split or grid layouts. Then ⌃⌥1 to ⌃⌥9 switches between projects, and the whole set swaps in under 100 ms. Assignments survive a reboot.

It also scans the process tree under each terminal window and detects Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, aider and opencode. Each agent's status shows in the menu bar, and ⌃⌥A jumps to the one that has waited longest.

Price: $29 one-time, 3 devices, 30-day trial without an account
Strengths: Project grouping, per-project pane layouts, session persistence, agent detection. Native Swift/AppKit, 3.2 MB download, no SIP changes.
Limitations: macOS 14+ only. No automatic tiling. Not on the Mac App Store. Costs more than every snapping tool here.

TileOrg runs alongside Rectangle, so you can keep Rectangle for quick snaps. The TileOrg vs Rectangle post goes through the difference.

AeroSpace

Best for: automatic tiling, i3-style

AeroSpace is for the Rectangle user who got tired of placing windows at all. It is a tree-based tiling window manager modeled on i3. Windows tile automatically, and it uses its own virtual workspaces instead of macOS Spaces. Configuration lives in a TOML file.

Price: Free and open source, MIT
Strengths: No need to disable SIP. Dotfiles friendly. Active, with v0.21.3 released in July 2026.
Limitations: Still a public beta, and the project warns of breaking changes before 1.0. You configure it in a text file, with no settings window. Needs macOS 13 or later.

Amethyst and yabai are the other free tiling options. We compare them in the full window manager roundup.

Raycast window management

Best for: people who already use Raycast

Raycast is a launcher, and window management is one of its built-in commands. It moves windows to halves, thirds and quarters, maximizes, centers, sends windows to another display and restores the previous size. Assign global hotkeys to the commands you use and it behaves much like Rectangle.

Price: Window management is on the free plan. Custom window management commands need Pro, $10 a month.
Strengths: One less app if Raycast is already running.
Limitations: You trigger commands by hotkey or from the launcher. Custom commands sit behind a subscription.

Comparison table

Tool	Price	How you move windows	Saved layouts or groups
Rectangle Pro	$9.99 once	Shortcuts, throw, drag	Workspace arrangements
Loop	Free	Radial menu, shortcuts	No
macOS tiling	Free	Drag, menu, shortcuts	No
Moom	$15	Palette, grid, shortcuts	Saved layouts
TileOrg	$29 once	Project panes, shortcuts	Named projects
AeroSpace	Free	Automatic tiling	Virtual workspaces
Raycast	Free, Pro $10/mo	Commands, hotkeys	No

Which one should you pick?

You like Rectangle and want more. Rectangle Pro. Same developer, same habits, $9.99.

You want free and different. Loop if you prefer the mouse, macOS tiling if you want nothing extra installed.

You want to restore a known arrangement. Moom. Our guide to saving window layouts compares the ways to do this.

You want windows to place themselves. AeroSpace, if a config file does not scare you.

You switch between projects all day, or run coding agents in parallel. TileOrg. The parallel Claude Code guide shows a full setup.

If you came here from Magnet instead, read the Magnet alternatives list. And if Stage Manager is the thing you want to replace, see Stage Manager alternatives.