SnapBrew is a menu-bar window manager for macOS that snaps any app's window into place - drag it onto a layout, press a shortcut, or pick from the menu. Tidy your screen in one motion.
It lives quietly in the menu bar (no dock icon). Grab a window's title bar and a layout palette appears; drop the window on a tile and it snaps there. Prefer the keyboard? Every layout has a global shortcut. Need something the presets don't cover? Draw your own zones.
Highlights
- Drag to snap - drag any window and a layout palette appears; drop it on a tile to snap. The target area lights up on screen before you let go.
- 13 built-in layouts - halves, thirds, quarters, maximize and center, each with a global shortcut on
⌃⌥⌘(e.g.⌃⌥⌘←for left half). - Custom zones - draw your own rectangle on a grid (30/70 splits, off-center panes, anything), name it, and it joins the palette with an optional shortcut.
- Multi-display aware - the palette follows your cursor from screen to screen, and windows snap on the display you drop them on - at any resolution or scale.
- Menu-bar native - no dock clutter. Every layout sits one click away in the status menu, each with a little preview glyph.
- Works with every app - moves any app's windows through macOS Accessibility; nothing to install per app.
- Light & dark - follows your system appearance, down to the frosted drag palette.
How it works
Grant Accessibility access once (SnapBrew walks you through it on first launch), then just use your Mac. Drag a window to bring up the palette, or press a layout shortcut to snap the focused window instantly. Open the menu-bar icon to pick a layout or manage custom zones.
Your custom zones and their shortcuts are saved locally in ~/Library/Application Support/snapbrew/. No account, no cloud, no tracking.
Perfect for
- Side-by-side work - editor and browser, or docs and reference, snapped to halves in a flick.
- Big and ultrawide displays - thirds and custom columns turn a wide screen into a real workspace.
- Multi-monitor setups - snap on whichever screen your cursor is on, no fiddling.
- Keyboard-first users - a shortcut for every layout, including your own zones.
