For macOS · Built by one person

Stop moving the same windows
every single day.

Settle is a window manager that remembers where your windows belong. Save a layout once. Bring it back with one click. Let automation do the rest.

Get Settle
Free for 14 days. $9.99 once if you stay.
Focus workspace
Settle menu bar popover with nine saved layouts
Personal workspace

You open the same apps. You arrange them in the same way. Then a meeting happens. Your monitor comes off. The laptop moves to the couch. And you rebuild everything from scratch.

Settle ends that loop.

1
Click to switch layouts
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Accounts, cloud, tracking
14
Day free trial
$9.99
Once. No subscription
Saved layouts

Arrange once.
Forget forever.

Open the apps you use. Put them where you want them. Hit save. Next time you need that arrangement, it's one click away from your menu bar.

  • Chrome, Slack, Terminal — where you left them
  • Name layouts like you think (Coding, Writing, Review)
  • Assign keyboard shortcuts to every layout
Menu bar popover with nine saved layouts and Work profile active
Workspaces

Work mode.
Focus mode.
Home mode.

Group layouts by context. Work has its own set. Meetings have theirs. Personal keeps the weekend apps tucked away. Switch modes, get a different menu bar.

  • Each workspace gets its own emoji, its own shortcut
  • Layouts scoped to the workspace — no noise
  • The workspace name says what mode you're in
Workspace dropdown showing Work, Focus, Meetings, Personal
Visual editor

Drag blocks.
Windows follow.

No config files. No terminal commands. A canvas, a grid, and the apps you care about. Split by halves, thirds, or quarters. Snap to grid, or don't.

  • Per-screen grids: ½, ⅓, ¼
  • Every screen remembers its own arrangement
  • Cmd+Click to select underlying windows
Layout editor canvas with three colored window blocks
The magic part

Windows move on their own.

The moment your monitor plugs in. At 9 AM sharp. When a specific app launches. Settle watches for the trigger you pick and applies the layout you chose.

Monitor detection

Dock it.
Undock it.
It just knows.

Plug in your external display — Settle recognizes the exact set of monitors and switches to your docked layout. Take the laptop to another desk, it goes back to the laptop-only setup. No rearranging.

Settings Automation tab with Monitor, Time, and App rules
Time-based

09:00 arrives.
Your setup is already waiting.

Mornings for deep work, afternoons for meetings, evenings for reading. Pick a time window, pick a layout, pick the days. Settle handles the handoff.

  • Multiple slots per profile (work hours, lunch, afterhours)
  • Respects manual overrides — change a layout and Settle waits for the next slot
  • Weekday / weekend scheduling built in
Meetings workspace layouts
Keyboard

Snap without
touching the mouse.

Press ⌃⌥← for left half. ⌃⌥→ for right. ⌃⌥F for fullscreen. Halves, quarters, thirds, center — every snap zone has a shortcut. Every saved layout can have one too.

  • Works with Apple Shortcuts
  • Chain it into Stream Deck, Focus modes, whatever you already run
Snap shortcuts settings
Organization

Every arrangement.
One overview.

See every layout across every workspace. Search, filter, edit, delete. Preview each one with the actual window positions before you apply it.

Settings showing all layouts grid
How Settle is different

Most window managers
snap. Settle remembers.

Plenty of tools can throw a window to the right half of the screen. Settle is built for what happens after — when your setup changes, your day changes, or you just want yesterday's arrangement back.

Capability
Other window managers
Settle
Snap to edges & corners
Keyboard shortcuts
Save entire layouts (not just positions)
Group layouts into workspaces
Auto-switch on monitor change
Time-based layout switching
App-specific launch positions
Multi-display memory
Partial
Subscription
Often yes
No — one-time
Account required
Sometimes
Never
Data collected
Varies
None
Pricing

One price.
Yours forever.

Try everything for 14 days. No credit card. No account. When the trial ends, pay once and keep it.

Settle for Mac v1.0
$9.99once
  • Unlimited layouts and workspaces
  • Monitor, time, and app-based automation
  • All snap shortcuts + Apple Shortcuts support
  • 14-day full-featured trial
  • No subscription. No account. No cloud.
Download on the Mac App Store
Requirements

A quiet guest on your Mac.

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macOS 14 or later

Sonoma, Sequoia, and beyond. Apple Silicon and Intel, one universal binary.

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Accessibility permission

Asked once on first launch. Used only to read and set window positions.

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About 20 MB

Native Swift. Light on memory. Doesn't touch your battery.