Moom
Moom is a macOS window manager. Its headline feature is saved layouts: arrange a set of windows exactly how they should sit, snapshot the arrangement, and recall the whole thing in one action later.
How I use it
Section titled “How I use it”- Recall a whole workspace, not just a window. Where Magnet snaps one window right now, Moom restores every open window’s size and position together — a saved “layout” is really a saved intention about how I want to be working.
- Every saved layout gets its own hotkey. A layout that requires opening a menu to recall isn’t meaningfully faster than rearranging windows by hand; the value is entirely in the one-keystroke recall.
- Layouts skip apps that aren’t running rather than erroring, which makes recalling one resilient to slightly different starting states instead of brittle.
Worth exploring
Section titled “Worth exploring”Pairing a layout recall with a macro that also launches the relevant apps first, so a single keypress builds an entire working context from cold — not just rearranges windows that are already open.
Divide labor
Section titled “Divide labor”Moom and Magnet split window management deliberately: Moom owns saved, recallable layouts; Magnet owns fast, in-the-moment single-window snapping. Neither job gets layered into a general-purpose automation tool — one owner per job avoids hotkey collisions.
See Magnet for the complementary in-the-moment snapping tool.