Magnet: one window, right now.
Drag a window to a screen edge or press a shortcut, and it snaps into half, a third or a quarter of the display. Then the next window. Then the next. Every time you change what you are working on.
Magnet snaps a window. Flincth sets up the whole desk.
Magnet makes you arrange your desk one window at a time, every time your work changes. Flincth remembers the whole desk. One switch moves every app’s window into place, hides the apps you don’t need, and brings up the clipboard history for that work.
Flincth: every window, one switch.
A setup names the apps for a kind of work and the region each one belongs to. Switch to it and they all move at once, and the clipboard shows only what you copied for that work.
Illustrative diagrams, not app screenshots.
Flincth does more of the work.
Magnet places windows. Flincth sets up the whole desk for the work in front of you.
| Feature | Flincth | Magnet |
|---|---|---|
| Whole desk in one step | Yes. Every app in the setup moves at once | No. One window per drag or shortcut |
| Clipboard manager | Yes. A separate text history for each setup | No. Not included. You need a second app |
| Hides the apps you don’t need | Yes. Apps outside the setup can hide when you switch | No. Not available |
| One click back to your old desk | Yes. “Not Flincth” restores the desk as it was | No. Not available |
| A shortcut for each kind of work | Yes. Each setup gets its own shortcut | No. Shortcuts per snap position, not per task |
| Works without Accessibility access | Yes. Windows move through Apple Shortcuts | No. Requires Accessibility access |
| Multiple displays | Yes. Regions across every display | Yes. External and vertical displays |
| No subscription | Yes. Pay once | Yes. Pay once |
Magnet + a clipboard manager such as Maccy$14.98
Flincth, both in one app$9.99
US Mac App Store prices, checked on 30 September 2026. Magnet also offers optional iCloud sync and runs on macOS 13; Flincth requires macOS 14 or later and keeps your setups on your Mac.
Why people move to Flincth.
Snapping one window is a moment. Setting up the right desk for every kind of work is your whole day.
Your desk, ready in one switch
Coding, writing, meetings: each setup knows its apps and where they go. No more dragging the same windows into the same places every morning.
The right snippets, not all of them
Each setup keeps its own clipboard history, so client notes never turn up in your code and yesterday’s research stays with the research.
Fewer permissions to hand out
Flincth never asks for Accessibility access. It moves windows through the “Flincth Apply” shortcut you install once in Apple Shortcuts.
Nothing to lose by trying
“Not Flincth” puts your desk back exactly as it was, one click away. Your setups and clipboard history never leave your Mac.
Only ever snap one window at a time? Magnet does that well. And because Flincth leaves windows alone after you switch, you can keep Magnet for those moments too.
Good questions.
Is Flincth a Magnet alternative?+
Yes, and it goes further. Magnet places one window at a time; Flincth saves the whole desk as a setup, with its apps, their places and its own clipboard history, and puts it all back with one switch.
Why does Flincth need a shortcut instead of Accessibility access?+
Flincth is sandboxed and never asks for Accessibility access. It moves windows through the “Flincth Apply” shortcut, which you install once in Apple Shortcuts. The app walks you through it.
Can Flincth move windows between desktops?+
No. It places ordinary windows on the current desktop and does not move them between Mission Control desktops or into or out of full screen.
Does Flincth snap windows when I drag them?+
No. Flincth applies your layout when you switch setups. It does not watch for drags or rearrange windows afterwards.
Stop rebuilding the same desk.
One switch for the windows. One clipboard for the work.
Requires macOS 14 or later · No subscription