TileOrg vs BetterSnapTool: Snapping Windows or Switching Projects?

The short answer

BetterSnapTool is the cheaper and better pick if you want drag-to-snap with custom zones. It costs $1.99 and does that one job well. TileOrg is for people who switch between several projects a day and want each project's windows to come back together with one key.

What BetterSnapTool does

BetterSnapTool comes from Andreas Hegenberg at folivora.AI, the same developer behind BetterTouchTool. It sells on the Mac App Store for $1.99 in the US, with in-app purchases listed, and the store shows it as an Editors' Choice.

You drag a window to a corner or to the top, left or right edge, and it snaps to a half, a quarter or full screen. If the standard zones are not enough, you draw your own snap areas anywhere on the display. The App Store listing also mentions:

• support for multiple monitors
• keyboard shortcuts for any snap area
• a pop-up menu with every snap size and position
• moving or resizing the window under the cursor while holding modifier keys
• custom actions for double-clicking a title bar or right-clicking the red, orange and green window buttons

The custom snap areas are the reason people pick it over Magnet. A zone for the left 40% of an ultrawide monitor takes a minute to set up, and then every drag lands there.

What it does not do

BetterSnapTool works on one window at a time. Neither its product page nor its App Store listing mentions saving a group of windows or restoring a layout. It has no idea that your terminal, editor and browser belong to the same task, so when you switch tasks you find and snap each window again.

If you like the folivora tools and need saved layouts, the same developer sells BetterTouchTool, whose action list includes saving and restoring window layouts. It costs $15 for 2 years of updates or $25 for a lifetime license. That is a bigger app, mostly about gestures and shortcuts.

What TileOrg does instead

TileOrg starts from projects, not screen zones. You create a named project with ⌃⌥N, open the window picker with ⌃⌥Space, and assign the windows that belong to it. Then you tile them into panes. Each pane is single, horizontal split, vertical split or grid, with up to 4 windows.

After that, ⌃⌥1 through ⌃⌥9 switches projects in under 100 ms, and ⌃⇧1 through ⌃⇧6 switches panes. Project assignments survive quitting TileOrg and rebooting. After a restart it re-matches windows to their projects. With more than one display, each monitor keeps its own pane assignments.

It also watches terminals for coding agents. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, aider and opencode get detected, attached to their project, and shown in the menu bar with their status. ⌃⌥A jumps to the agent that has waited longest for input.

Side by side

Feature	BetterSnapTool	TileOrg
Price	$1.99 in the US	$29 one-time, 3 Macs
Drag to snap	Yes	No
Custom snap areas	Yes	No, pane layouts per project
Keyboard shortcuts	Yes, per snap area	Yes, per project and pane
Groups windows by project	No	Yes
Restores layout after reboot	Not listed	Yes
Coding agent tracking	No	Yes
Distribution	Mac App Store	Direct download or Homebrew

The distribution row has a reason. TileOrg needs Accessibility API access to manage other apps' windows, and the way it uses that access does not fit the Mac App Store's sandbox requirements. So it ships outside the store, signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Who should pick which

Pick BetterSnapTool if you work on one thing at a time, like dragging with the mouse, and want zones shaped to your monitor. Two dollars is hard to argue with.

Pick TileOrg if your day is three or four projects, each with its own terminal, editor and browser windows, and rebuilding them by hand is the part that costs you. It is $29 once, after a 30-day trial with no account and no card.

Using both

They do not fight. BetterSnapTool handles where a single window lands when you drag it, and TileOrg decides which set of windows is in front. If a hotkey clashes, change it. Every TileOrg shortcut is customizable.

More comparisons: TileOrg vs Magnet, the other drag-to-snap favorite, and TileOrg vs Rectangle, the free keyboard option. If what you really want is saved arrangements, read how to save and restore window layouts on Mac. The best macOS window managers guide covers the rest.