Panebird – A sandboxed macOS window manager with zero telemetry and Shortcuts

Halves, thirds, corners and your own layouts. Press ⌃⌥← or drag a window to the edge of the screen, and Panebird does the rest.

Free · Pro for $1.99, pay once · macOS 14 or later

Fast to learn, quiet in the menu bar, out of your way.

Keyboard shortcuts

Halves, corners, thirds, fourths, sixths and eighths, on familiar ⌃⌥ arrow-key shortcuts.

Drag to the edge

Drop a window at an edge or corner of the screen and it snaps there, with a preview of where it lands.

Repeat to resize

Press ⌃⌥← again and the window goes from half to two thirds to one third of the screen.

Saved layouts Pro

Arrange the windows of several apps once and bring them all back with a single shortcut.

Todo mode Pro

Keep a task list or chat as a strip at the side while every other window fills the rest.

Private by design

No account, no analytics, nothing sent to the internet. Your settings stay on your Mac.

Get Panebird from the Mac App Store. It lives in the menu bar, not the Dock.

One click adds the Panebird shortcut to the Shortcuts app, which does the moving.

Press ⌃⌥← and the active window takes the left half of the screen.

No subscription. Pay once and Pro is yours on every Mac with your Apple Account.

All shortcuts and menu actions

Drag to the edge

Gaps between windows

Ignored apps

Settings export

Pro Pro

For people who arrange the same windows every day.

Everything in Free

Custom window positions

Saved multi-app layouts

Todo mode

Adjacent windows resize together

FAQ

Apps in the Mac App Store run in a sandbox that cannot move other apps' windows. Panebird works out where a window should go, and the Shortcuts app built into macOS moves it in about a tenth of a second. That is also why a small Shortcuts icon blinks in the menu bar after each move.

macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple silicon or Intel.

No. Panebird is free, and Pro is a single purchase that also unlocks future Pro features.

English, Polish and German. It follows the language of your Mac.

Give every window its place

Free on the Mac App Store. Pro is a one-time $1.99.