Magnet 2
Wonderful window-snapping
One thing Windows still does better than macOS is shortcuts that quickly snap windows to preset areas of the desktop. Magnet adds a similar kind of feature to your Mac, so you can make a window fill a half or a quarter of the screen by dragging it to a screen edge or corner. This version lets you snap your windows to columnar thirds, too.
A grey overlay indicates the area a window should fill when you let go of it. If it needs more space, an overlay, like macOS’s one for volume changes, tells you why. Minimum widths required by some apps can make snapping to a third of the screen’s width more useful on large desktops than on a MacBook, where these apps may not fit in the allocated space. Unfortunately, there’s no way to divide the screen into a finer grid, as rival apps Divvy and Moom can.
Helpfully though, Magnet memorises the previous dimensions of a window and restores them when you drag a window away from its snapped position.
One thing we’d like to be refined is the ability to fill the desktop by dragging toward the screen’s top edge; there are only a few rows of pixels between triggering that or macOS’s shortcut into Mission Control, which can be a tad frustrating.