flincth
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Rectangle throws one window at a time into a half, a third or a corner of the screen, and you start over 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.
Press a shortcut or drag a window to a screen edge, and it snaps into place. Then the next window, and the next. Rectangle does not remember which apps belong to which kind of work, so the arranging starts again every time.
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.
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Rectangle places windows. Flincth sets up the whole desk for the work in front of you.
| Feature | Flincth | Rectangle |
|---|---|---|
| Whole desk in one step | Yes. Every app in the setup moves at once | No. One window per shortcut or drag |
| Remembers where each app goes | Yes. Each app keeps its place in every setup | No. “Tile All” splits whatever is open into an even grid |
| 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. Restores one window at a time |
| A shortcut for each kind of work | Yes. Each setup gets its own shortcut | No. Shortcuts per window position, not per task |
| Works without Accessibility access | Yes. Windows move through Apple Shortcuts | No. Requires Accessibility access |
| From the Mac App Store | Yes. Installed, updated and reviewed by Apple | No. Downloaded from its website or Homebrew |
| Multiple displays | Yes. Regions across every display | Yes. Moves windows between displays |
| No subscription | Yes. Pay once | Yes. Free and open source |
Rectangle itself is free, but it has no saved workspaces and no clipboard history. Rectangle Pro, which adds one-shortcut workspaces, is sold on rectangleapp.com; Maccy is on the Mac App Store. US prices, checked on 30 September 2026.
Throwing one window into place is a moment. Setting up the right desk for every kind of work is your whole day.
Coding, writing, meetings: each setup knows its apps and where they go. No more dragging the same windows into the same places every morning.
Each setup keeps its own clipboard history, so client notes never turn up in your code and yesterday’s research stays with the research.
Flincth never asks for Accessibility access. It moves windows through the “Flincth Apply” shortcut you install once in Apple Shortcuts.
“Not Flincth” puts your desk back exactly as it was, one click away. Your setups and clipboard history never leave your Mac.
Happy throwing one window at a time? Rectangle is a good free tool for that. And because Flincth leaves windows alone after you switch, the two can share a Mac.
Because Rectangle only moves the window in front of you. Flincth remembers which apps belong to each kind of work, where each one goes and what you copied for it, and puts all of it back with one switch. Getting close with Rectangle means buying Rectangle Pro for workspaces and a separate clipboard manager.
Yes, for anyone who arranges the same windows again and again. Instead of a shortcut per window, you get a setup per kind of work, with its own layout, its own hidden apps and its own clipboard history.
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.
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.
No. Flincth applies your layout when you switch setups. It does not watch for drags or rearrange windows afterwards.
One switch for the windows. One clipboard for the work.
Requires macOS 14 or later · No subscription