TileOrg vs Moom: Saved Layouts or Project Groups

The short answer

Moom is the better pick if you want flexible window moving and resizing plus saved layouts that put apps back in place, for example when you plug in an external display. TileOrg is the better pick if you work on several projects at once and want each project's specific windows grouped, tiled and one hotkey away. Moom costs $15. TileOrg costs $29 once.

What Moom does well

Moom by Many Tricks has been around for years and version 4.6 shipped in August 2026. Hover over a window's green button and a palette pops up with up to 61 actions. There is drag-to-edge snapping, an on-screen grid, and a keyboard mode for moving and resizing without the mouse. You can chain actions together and give almost every custom action its own keyboard shortcut.

Moom also has saved layouts, and they do more than people expect. You arrange your windows, save a layout, and restore it later from the menu or a keyboard shortcut. A layout can:

• restore one window from each saved app to its position
• fill generic slots with your frontmost or nearest windows, whatever app they belong to
• launch the apps in the layout if they are not running
• hide every app that is not part of the layout
• run automatically when you add or remove a display

It costs $15 direct, with a license that does not expire and at least a year of updates, and there is a free trial. Moom 4.6 runs on macOS 10.13 High Sierra or newer. An older version, Moom Classic, is still on the Mac App Store.

Where TileOrg works differently

Moom's layouts think in apps and window positions. Its own help page says that for an app-based layout, one window from each app goes back to its saved spot. Generic layouts pick windows by how recently you used them or how close they are to each zone. Window titles do not come into it.

That is fine when one app means one task. It breaks down when you have three Terminal windows and two Cursor windows open, each for a different repo. A layout that says "Terminal on the left" cannot know which Terminal window you mean.

TileOrg's unit is the project, a named group of specific windows. You pick them with the window picker (⌃⌥Space): this terminal, this editor window, these two browser windows. You tile them into panes once, single, horizontal split, vertical split or grid, up to 4 windows per pane. Then ⌃⌥1 to ⌃⌥9 switches between projects and ⌃⇧1 to ⌃⇧6 switches panes inside one. Assignments survive a reboot, and TileOrg re-matches windows to their projects after a restart.

TileOrg also watches for coding agents. Every 3 seconds it checks the process tree under each terminal for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, aider and opencode, ties each agent to its project, and shows its status in the menu bar. ⌃⌥A jumps to the agent that has waited longest. Moom has nothing like that, and it is not trying to.

Side by side

Feature	Moom	TileOrg
Price	$15, free trial	$29 one-time, 30-day trial
Move and resize single windows	Palette, grid, snap, keyboard	Not the focus
Saved layouts	Yes, by app or by window order	Yes, by named project
Tracks specific windows of one app	No, it matches by app or window order	Yes
Hotkey to restore	Yes	Yes, ⌃⌥1 to ⌃⌥9
Auto-run on display change	Yes	No
Launches apps	Yes, one window per app	At startup, with session restore on
Coding agent tracking	No	Yes
macOS	10.13 or later	14 or later

Who should pick Moom

If most of your day is one or two apps, and what annoys you is resizing windows and rebuilding your setup every time you dock your laptop, buy Moom. Its display-triggered layouts do exactly that, and TileOrg does not. It is also cheaper, and it still runs on old Macs that TileOrg cannot support.

Who should pick TileOrg

If you switch between projects many times a day, and each project uses the same apps as the others, TileOrg fits better. The question it answers is "show me everything for the frontend repo," which a per-app layout cannot answer when every project has its own terminal and editor. If you run coding agents in parallel, the agent tracking is the deciding feature.

Can you use both?

Yes. Use Moom to nudge or resize one window on the fly, and TileOrg to switch the whole set of project windows. I would avoid running a Moom layout with "hide other apps" on the same windows TileOrg manages, since both would be deciding where those windows go.

For other comparisons, see TileOrg vs Magnet and TileOrg vs Rectangle. If saving layouts is your main goal, read how to save window layouts on a Mac, or start with the guide to the best macOS window managers.