Magnet Alternatives

Magnet is described as 'Every time you multitask with many apps open, you need all the windows arranged accordingly. Magnet makes this process swift and easy' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Magnet for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, PortableApps.com, File Explorer and X11 apps. The best Magnet alternative is Microsoft PowerToys, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Magnet are Rectangle, DisplayFusion, Loop - Window Management and AquaSnap.

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  1. VEEER icon
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    VEEER is a lightweight window manager for your mac OSX - designed for designers & developers and built for a maximum workflow speed.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Plumb icon
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    Plumb is designed to reduce the time spent manually moving windows on your desktop. With higher resolution and larger monitors becoming the norm it’s common to have several applications open at any given time — none of which really need 100% of the screen.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Deskovery icon
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    Deskovery is an OS X window manager. Windowshade, align, resize, change transparency of your windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Stay icon
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    If you’re fastidious about keeping your windows tidy, Stay is for you. Stay ensures that your windows are always where you want them to be, even as you connect and disconnect displays.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. WindowSpace icon
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    WindowSpace is a powerful desktop enhancement utility for large monitors, widescreens and multi-monitor systems. Once installed, it allows you to manipulate windows in many new amazing ways – snap windows to the screen edges and other windows, move and resize them with keyboard...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Taekwindow icon
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    Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight and free Windows program that allows you to move and resize windows by dragging them with the Alt key, similar to many X11 window managers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Cinch icon
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    Cinch is Aero Snap for Macs- it offers simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as hot zones. Cinching to the left or right edges of the screen will resize the window to fill exactly half the screen, allowing you to easily...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. QuickTile icon
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    A lightweight utility for allowing you to quickly snap windows to a tiling grid under your existing Linux window manager. Can be triggered via keyboard shortcuts, the command line, or D-Bus calls.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
     
    • QuickTile is the most popular Linux alternative to Magnet.

    • QuickTile is Free and Open SourceMagnet is Paid and Proprietary
  9. Multi Dock icon
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    MultiDock is a simple application that allows you to organize frequently used applications, documents and folders using small panels (Dock’s).

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Easy Move+Resize is based on behavior found in many X11/Linux window managers, adding easy modifier key + mouse drag move and resize to OS X.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Chameleon Window Manager will allow you to control the windows of your programs using customizable buttons added to the title bars of the windows (Always on Top, Minimize to Tray, Minimize to Caption, Specify Transparency, Position window at left/right of screen).

    92 Chameleon Window Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
  12. Slate icon
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    Slate is a window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). Originally written to replace them due to some limitations in how each work, it attempts to overcome them by simply being extremely configurable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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