Hold ⌃⌥ and tap an arrow. LilSnap puts the window exactly where you want it: halves, quarters, thirds or your own layouts. Or just drag it to an edge.
Click a window, then press a key
Thirty seconds of real snapping, recorded on a Mac.
The Shortcuts icon in the menu bar is macOS showing that LilSnap's shortcut ran.
Everything you reach for every day, and nothing you have to think about.
Halves, quarters, thirds, two-thirds, fourths, sixths, center and maximize. Press a half again and it steps to ⅔, then ⅓.
Hold ⌃⌥ and press → and ↑ together for the top-right quarter. No letters to memorise.
Drag a window to an edge or corner and a preview appears right behind it. Drop it at the top center for the Snap Bar with six ready layouts.
One shortcut arranges the windows in front. Three windows get one big and two stacked, so no corner of your screen goes to waste.
Draw a layout on a 12×12 grid, give it a shortcut, and it shows up in the menu next to the built-in ones.
Add space between windows and around the edges. Thirds stay exactly equal, gaps or not.
Send a window to the next display in one press. Portrait monitors stack layouts top to bottom. Restore puts any window back where it was.
The icon draws the front window's layout. Open it for a tile grid with every shortcut printed right on its tile.
Actions for the Shortcuts app, plus a lilsnap:// URL scheme for Raycast, Alfred or a Stream Deck.
About 16 MB of memory and 0% CPU while idle. No network access, no account, no tracking. In English and French.
Every shortcut starts with ⌃⌥. Change any of them in Settings.
A small menu, a cheat sheet when you need it, and every shortcut yours to change.
Every layout as a tile, with its key printed on it. The current one is marked.
One click from the menu: what to press for one, two, three or four windows.
Change any shortcut, or give a layout a second one.
The first time you open LilSnap, it walks you through it.
LilSnap opens Apple's Shortcuts app with its shortcut. Click Add Shortcut.
macOS asks once whether LilSnap may use Shortcuts Events. Click OK. That's it.
Less than a coffee. Once.
macOS 14+ · Apple silicon & Intel
No subscription. No in-app purchases.
No. It reads only window positions and sizes, never titles or contents, and moves windows through its shortcut in Apple's Shortcuts app. The only question macOS asks is whether LilSnap may use Shortcuts Events.
About a fifth of a second. The first snap after a long break can take a few seconds while macOS starts Shortcuts in the background. Press keys as fast as you like: LilSnap queues them up.
That's macOS showing that LilSnap's shortcut just ran. It shows a check mark and goes away by itself. It's how every Mac App Store app that works with Shortcuts behaves.
Your hands already know it: ⌃⌥ plus the arrows, ↩ to maximize, C to center. Thirds are on 1 2 3 and still on D F G. Every shortcut can be changed.
macOS has its own drag tiling. Turn off Drag windows to screen edges to tile in System Settings → Desktop & Dock. LilSnap's Settings has a button that takes you there.
LilSnap opens its setup page by itself when this happens. Check that a shortcut named LilSnap is in the Shortcuts app, and that LilSnap is on under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Automation.
Open LilSnap again from Finder, Spotlight or Launchpad and Settings appears.
No. In our tests it used about 16 MB of memory, 0% CPU and no wakeups while idle. It does nothing until you press a key or drag a window.