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Coming from macOS, I have to say that this feature is extremely neat. This feature alone makes working with multiple windows on a large display so much nicer on Windows than on Mac. On the Mac you have all those different modes — full screen, side by side, resize — and confusing ways to trigger the modes: click green button, alt click green button, drag to top of screen and wait, etc.

The Aero Snap feature was something I immediately understood when I started using Windows, and I learned about it just from the feedback you get when you drag a window to the side. You can see that they tested it with real users.

It feels like Apple didn't test their feature with real users at all. It's bad on the desktop, but it's even worse on iPad — I only ever triggered the multi-tasking features accidentally and ended up confused what was going on.

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There's a $0.99 app for macOS called Magnet that implements aero snap like functionality. I'd highly recommend.

Additionally an app called Spectacle for keyboard accelerated window management.

I found that once I got used to the keyboard shortcuts, my window management on macOS became second nature.

https://www.spectacleapp.com/

I think Rectangle is the spiritual successor to Spectacle.

https://rectangleapp.com

That developer has some really cool apps. Just switched to macOS from Windows and already discovered there’s no way to mimic middle click on the touchpad. This person has an app for that!

Wow, now that you mention it this person does have some cool apps. For example, Hookshot (https://hookshot.app) does snapping with your cursor anywhere on an app.

Thanks for the tip. It seems the dev increased the price (it costs 8€ now). I bought it nevertheless.

Unfortunately, the app seems to work nowhere near as well as the Windows feature. Might be because of my multi-monitor setup, but it seems to do something different everytime I hit an edge, and trying to hit an edge between two displays is difficult.

Long-time user of BetterTouchTool here, which implements this feature as well. If you just want the snap functionality they also offer this as a cheaper ($2.99), stand-alone version with BetterSnapTool[0].

[0] https://folivora.ai/bettersnaptool

I’m a pretty big fan of penc. It’s has snap like functionality placed on gestures on the trackpad and is free https://deniz.co/penc/

I would recommend it as well. Once you start getting used to the hotkeys it really speeds things up. They even have commands to send app windows to other monitors.

There's rectangle app that does aero-snap and much more, and it is opensource: https://rectangleapp.com/ I been using it for a while and love it.

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