Rectangle
Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas (by rxhanson)
simple-bar
A yabai status bar widget for Übersicht (by Jean-Tinland)
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| Rectangle | simple-bar | |
|---|---|---|
| 723 | 12 | |
| 24,339 | 1,143 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.2 | 9.3 | |
| 24 days ago | 28 days ago | |
| Swift | JavaScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
Why would you pay for magnet when you can use rectangle, which is the same but open source? https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
simple-bar
Posts with mentions or reviews of simple-bar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.
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My Dashboard / Theme setup
Top bar is: https://github.com/Jean-Tinland/simple-bar
- [Rice] My Neovim setup on mac 😺
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First few hours with my first macOs; things that i'm missing (coming form ubuntu/windows)
Coming from linux, I have the set up of ubersicht/simple-bar + yabai + skhd + alfred that I've found to be very extensible and customizable! Very rice-y :)
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My really customized desktop - dynamic wallpaper, custom widgets, custom folders, diagnostics. Thoughts? All suggestions are appreciated.
Yabai is a tiling window manager (you may like it or you may hate it). It automatically aligns Windows so they’re visible. E.g. if you have one window open it takes up the entire screen, if you open a second one it takes up 50% and the other is also scaled to take up 50%. (Not actually 50%, because by default it leaves some gaps). It also has space management (workspaces) which make them much more useful as they’re usually quite tedious to work with at least for me. It’s very customisable and you can integrate it with Übersicht, (check out Simple-bar) and for example display the title of the window in the bar (In Firefox/Chrome it displays the title of the tab).
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Alternative menu bar
simple-bar: github
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[yabai] green green green
bar: simple-bar mod
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[Yabai] My everyday workspace inspired by Atom one dark theme
simple bar (for yabai)
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showcase: workflow with yabai, custom scripts and theming (little slow when recording sorry, not usually this laggy), idk thought you guys might like this.
Bar: https://github.com/Jean-Tinland/simple-bar
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[yabai/macos] Highly customizable status bar with Übersicht
If you are still experiencing some issues, feel free to open an issue here anytime. :)
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[Aqua/Rectangle] Hackintosh Big Sur Rice
Bar - Übersicht , simple-bar
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Rectangle and simple-bar you can also consider the following projects:
Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.
SketchyBar - A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS
spaceship-prompt - :rocket::star: Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt
PlayCover - PlayCover is a project that allows you to sideload iOS apps on macOS (currently arm, Intel support will be tested)
skhd - Simple hotkey daemon for macOS
linux
gotop - A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]