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I use Rectangle Pro, and it helps a lot, but IMHO workspace integration is poor still. I'll give this one a try. BTW, if this works, can you please consider asking money for it? Keep it open source but perhaps add a friction-less support channel (read: not github issues) for paying ", "context": "switched from Windows to macOS last year", "use_case": "window management", "switched_from": "", "story": "HopTab\u2013free,open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab"}, {"id": 752021681, "item_id": 47001355, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001355", "by": "puttycat", "date": "2026-02-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I highly recommend Rectangle or Rectangle Pro for the same reasons.", "excerpt": "Agree + I highly recommend Rectangle or Rectangle Pro for the same reasons.", "context": "", "use_case": "Window snapping (macOS)", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}, {"id": 751958784, "item_id": 46997424, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997424", "by": "joedrago", "date": "2026-02-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the \"best\" one is Rectangle Pro, but it isn't free", "excerpt": "I think for preexisting solutions, the \"best\" one is Rectangle Pro, but it isn't free, so maybe that doesn't count. That said, eventually I realized I don't even want the whole \"window split\" stuff and I'd prefer to just have a few keybinds that throw windows into specific coords on my screens, so I installed Hammerspoon (free) and wrote a screen's worth of Lua to do this for myself. 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I use Rectangle Pro, and it helps a lot, but IMHO workspace integration is poor still. I'll give this one a try. BTW, if this works, can you please consider asking money for it? 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That said, eventually I realized I don't even want the whole \"window split\" stuff and I'd prefer to just have a few keybinds that throw windows into specific coords on my screens, so I installed Hammerspoon (free) and wrote a screen's worth of Lua to do this for myself. It is written for my two adjacent", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}, {"id": 740550032, "item_id": 46284377, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284377", "by": "Brajeshwar", "date": "2025-12-15", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I thought I will get rid of Rectangle Pro (I use only that custom window resizing)", "excerpt": "How do you deal with the permissions on using Shortcut? With the new macOS Spotlight improvement and the window management getting better, I thought I will get rid of Rectangle Pro (I use only that custom window resizing) and tried a window Resizer Shortcut. I\u2019ve tried giving it as much freedom as I can but it keeps bumping into more and more gates. Btw, I think I jumped too early on that Spotlight thing. I remember,", "context": "", "use_case": "Window resizing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: PasteClean \u2013 Desktop app to strip tracking parameters from clipboard"}]}