Rectangle
Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas (by rxhanson)
QuickLook
Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows (by QL-Win)
| Rectangle | QuickLook | |
|---|---|---|
| 724 | 69 | |
| 24,493 | 16,224 | |
| - | 1.1% | |
| 8.5 | 4.0 | |
| 6 days ago | 25 days ago | |
| Swift | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Rectangle
Posts with mentions or reviews of Rectangle.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-24.
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Updating My Mac Window Shortcuts Strategy for Optimal Workflow
Rectangle’s installation is incredibly straightforward. Its immediate out-of-the-box functionality was a pleasant surprise. For anyone seeking to reduce the friction of window management on their Mac, Rectangle is a solution I wholeheartedly recommend.
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How I stay (more) focused with ADHD
Tip: I use Rectangle app to set up keyboard shortcuts to resize windows (I only have three shortcuts there: left/right half of the screen and full screen).
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Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
But Raycast also has some functionality in that direction.
[1] - https://rectangleapp.com/
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Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2024
Two more little utilities that I cannot live without on Mac:
A tiling window manager like https://rectangleapp.com/
Muzzle, which automatically silences desktop notifs when you're screensharing https://muzzleapp.com/
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Macbook M3 Max new MacOS user
I suggest using Rectangle instead of Magnet; it has the same features but is free. I don't know what other Windows features you want to have.
- Newb: ONE tip you can share that would make my Mac OS experience better?
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Found this on Facebook and I've started questioning my life choices...
I’ve used this app forever. Adds in all the window snapping features.
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Recommend apps for learning Macbook hotkeys and shortcuts coming from a Windows background.
third-party window management apps like Magnet and Rectangle
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MacOS tools to make your life easier
Rectangle Mac - Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas, similar to Windows.
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Everything I install and set up on a new MacBook as a web developer
I was a Spectacle user for years, but I recently switched to using Rectangle for window management. Rectangle has a few more options than Spectacle; I’m still getting used to it but I have no strong feelings either way.
QuickLook
Posts with mentions or reviews of QuickLook.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-30.
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IrfanView
Always have to install Quicklook on my windows machines, too used to it on Mac
https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
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Powertoys Peek - does this feature need to be included natively in future version of Windows?
yes
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PowerToys Release 0.70 with Mouse Without Borders and PowerToys Peek
I meant this one
I hope you can look at the features of QuickLook because like the guy above said, it's currently vastly superior :)
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How do you all feel about Windows?
There is QuickLook for Windows although is not as good as the macOS one: https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
- Preview exel and word without have it installed, like a pdf file, no edition, just to visualise.
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Whatever happened to Peek for Powertoys?
You can use QuickLook in the meantime.
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Lightweight, offline, documents viewer (mainly PDF, PPT, Word)
QuickLook is pretty useful. It is basically the Windows Version of MAC's QuickLook.
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File-Explorer that can display Readme.md files.
I've been using QuickLook for years, functions just like Preview in macOS (hitting the spacebar after selecting a file pops open a window with the content): https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
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Photoshop shows different colors and my gradients are ruined, all of this happened overnight. But everywhere else, the file preview's colors are correct. Do you know any reason? Is this related to the Pantone thing?
Why does the Quicklook app show the correct colors and photoshop doesn't?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Rectangle and QuickLook you can also consider the following projects:
Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.
PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
SylphyHorn - Virtual Desktop Tools for Windows 10.
alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS
linux
PlayCover - PlayCover is a project that allows you to sideload iOS apps on macOS (currently arm, Intel support will be tested)
qView - Practical and minimal image viewer
AutoEq - Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
Windows10Debloater - Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.