PanewiseSnap one side. Pick the other.
Drag a window to the edge of the screen and Panewise fills the empty half with live previews of everything else you have open. Click one, or just start typing.
Free · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon & Intel · Notarized by Apple
Drag a window to a screen edge…
However you reach for it, it's right there.
Drag to an edge
Sides for halves, corners for quarters, the top to fill the screen. A glass preview shows exactly where it'll land.
Use the layout bar
Drag to the top centre for 60/40, thirds, main + stack or a grid. Drop into a slot and the picker fills the rest, one by one.
Or the keyboard
The shortcuts you already know from Rectangle — halves, thirds, quarters, displays — with ⌃⌥Z to undo the last move.
Windows that stay together.
Once two windows share an edge, Panewise treats them as a pair — so the split you set up keeps working for you.
A divider you can grab
Hover the border between two snapped windows and a handle lights up along it.
- Drag to resize both windows at once
- Double-click to even them out to 50/50
- Click ⇄ to swap the two sides
Snap groups
Click one window and its partner comes forward too. Minimise one, and the other follows. Move the pair to another display with ⌃⌥⌘→.
Switch this side
Double-tap ⌃ — or click the ⇄ pill at the top of a snapped window — and the picker opens right over it. Choose a replacement and it slides into place.
A picker that learns
The apps you usually pair come first, your favourite split for a pair is restored, and if the other side is already filled, no picker gets in the way.
Type to launch
The window you want isn't open yet? Type its app's name in the picker and Panewise launches it straight into the empty half.
Layouts & app rules
Save where every app lives and bring it all back with ⌃⌥⌘1. Or set a rule: “when Slack opens, put it in the right third.”
Smooth, never showy
Windows glide into place on a spring, however slowly an app redraws. Reduce Motion is always respected.
Undo
Snapped the wrong thing? ⌃⌥Z puts the last moved windows back exactly where they were.
Move from anywhere
Hold ⌃⌘ and drag anywhere inside a window to move it — right-drag to resize from the nearest corner.
Your fingers already know these.
Same defaults as Rectangle, so switching costs nothing. Every shortcut can be changed in Settings.
Your screen stays yours.
Panewise draws window previews on the spot and throws them away. It never records, stores or sends anything — no accounts, no analytics, no tracking. The only time it goes online is to check for updates.
Good to know.
Which permissions does it need, and why?
Accessibility (required) is how any window manager moves and resizes other apps' windows. Screen Recording (optional) lets the picker show live previews of your windows; without it you'll see app icons instead. After you allow it, macOS also asks once about bypassing its “private window picker” — choose Allow. Panewise walks you through all of it the first time it opens.
I'm on macOS Sequoia or later — doesn't macOS tile windows already?
It does, and its edge-drag tiling would fight Panewise over the same drag. On first launch Panewise offers to turn macOS's edge tiling off with one click; you can switch it back on any time in System Settings › Desktop & Dock.
I use Rectangle. Will my shortcuts still work?
Yes — Panewise uses the same defaults. Quit Rectangle first so the two don't both respond to the same keys.
Why isn't it on the Mac App Store?
Apps on the Mac App Store must run in Apple's sandbox, and the sandbox doesn't allow one app to move another app's windows. So Panewise is distributed directly, signed with our Developer ID and notarized by Apple, and keeps itself up to date.
How do updates work?
Panewise checks for new versions in the background and asks before installing. You can also choose “Check for Updates…” from its menu bar icon.
How do I uninstall it?
Quit Panewise from its menu bar icon and drag it from Applications to the Bin. If you turned off macOS window tiling, you can turn it back on in System Settings › Desktop & Dock.
Give every window its place.
Download Panewise, drag it to Applications, and snap your first window in under a minute.