TileOrg vs Raycast Window Management: Do You Need Both?

The short answer

If you already run Raycast and only need to throw windows into halves, thirds or quarters, keep using Raycast. Its window commands are free and you do not need another app. TileOrg is for a different job, grouping the windows of each project and switching the whole set with one key, plus tracking coding agents running in your terminals.

What Raycast gives you for free

Raycast is a launcher first. Window management is one of its built-in extensions, and the pricing page lists it under the core features of the free plan.

The Raycast manual lists a long set of commands for the focused window. Halves in every direction, thirds, first two thirds, fourths, corner quarters, top and bottom sixths, center, maximize, and a "Reasonable Size" that resizes to 60% of the screen. You can move a window to the next display or the next Space, type an exact size like 1920 by 1080, and set gaps between windows. Any command can get a hotkey.

That covers what most people install Rectangle or Magnet for. If this is your whole need, stop here. You already have it.

What Raycast Pro adds

Raycast Pro costs $10 a month or $96 a year. Among other things, it adds Custom Window Management Commands, which the pricing page marks as not included in the free plan.

Under that heading the manual describes Create Layout. A layout places up to eight app windows per display, each with its own size and position, and each entry can open a Quicklink, a file, a URL or command line arguments in its app. "Save Current Layout" reads the windows on screen and pre-fills a layout from them. An "Other Windows" option can leave, minimize or close anything the layout does not place.

That is a real feature, and it overlaps with TileOrg more than the free commands do. If you pay for Raycast Pro anyway and want two or three fixed arrangements, try Raycast layouts before buying anything else.

Where TileOrg works differently

A Raycast layout is a recipe. Each entry names an app and where its window goes, and you run the recipe when you want that arrangement.

A TileOrg project is a list of specific windows. You create a project with ⌃⌥N, open the picker with ⌃⌥Space, and assign the exact terminal, editor window and browser window that belong to it. You tile them into panes, either single, horizontal split, vertical split or grid, with up to 4 windows per pane. Then ⌃⌥1 through ⌃⌥9 switches between projects in under 100 ms, and ⌃⇧1 through ⌃⇧6 switches panes inside one.

This matters when you have two windows of the same app in different projects. Say two VS Code windows, two Chrome windows and three terminals, split across two repos. TileOrg tracks which one belongs where, and the assignments survive quitting the app and rebooting the Mac.

The other difference is agents. TileOrg scans the process tree under each terminal window every 3 seconds and detects Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, aider and opencode. Each agent is attached to its project, the menu bar shows whether it is working, waiting, idle, errored or done, and ⌃⌥A jumps to the one that has waited longest. Raycast has nothing like this in its window commands.

Side by side

Feature	Raycast	TileOrg
Price	Free; Pro $10/mo or $96/yr	$29 one-time, 3 Macs
Halves, thirds, quarters	Yes, free	No, pane layouts instead
Multi-window layouts	Pro, up to 8 windows per display	Yes, per project
Groups specific windows	No, layout entries are apps	Yes
Keeps assignments after reboot	Layout config is saved	Yes, re-matches windows
Coding agent tracking	No	Yes, 5 agents
Also a launcher	Yes	No

Who should pick which

Pick Raycast alone if you want snapping and a launcher in one app, or if you already pay for Pro and your setups are fixed per app. A "Writing" layout that opens your editor on the left and Safari on the right is exactly what Raycast layouts do well.

Pick TileOrg if you switch between several projects a day and each one has its own windows of the same apps. It also fits if you run coding agents in parallel and lose track of which terminal is waiting on you. It costs $29 once, with a 30-day trial that needs no account.

Can you run both?

Yes. TileOrg adds a project layer and does not replace other tools. Use Raycast to nudge a window to a third, and TileOrg to swap the whole workspace. Both use hotkeys, so check for clashes. TileOrg uses ⌃⌥ plus a digit, Space, Tab, A and N by default, and every TileOrg shortcut can be changed.

For the wider field, read the guide to the best macOS window managers. If you want saved arrangements specifically, see how to save and restore window layouts on Mac. And if you came from snap tools, compare TileOrg with Rectangle or BetterSnapTool.