What's Hot at TechRepublic. Simply stated, Magnet lets you quickly and neatly align multiple viewable windows.

There's no need to hassle with clunky apps that often just hide active windows—Magnet maintains viewable windows, unless you choose to maximize one. In other words, the windows aren't hidden and don't require a special gesture or keystroke to access—windows remain immediately viewable and accessible, just more neatly organized.

As a result, it's much easier to keep your Mac desktop organized and efficient. Magnet automatically resizes active application screens into quarter-display-sized windows when you drag the window to one of the screen's four corners.

By superimposing gray shading on an active window when you move it to a predetermined screen location, the application confirms the window is about to be resized, so no accidental or unintended resizing or repositioning occurs when moving windows around on the desktop. It's brilliant. You need to give the application proper permission to operate. After installing the small program (it's less than 4MB), follow these steps. Go to System Preferences. Select Security & Privacy. Click Privacy.

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Choose Accessibility. Check the box for Magnet.app. Click the lock icon in the screen's lower left corner if systems changes are locked, and enter the system administrator username and password to enable making system changes. Select the check box for Launch Magnet At Login to enable the program to start with macOS. Once installed, dragging windows to the sides splits them into horizontal sections. Dragging windows to the top maximizes them, while dragging to the bottom splits windows into vertical thirds.

What's particularly helpful (depending upon the circumstances) is the way windows' text and graphics automatically resize when Magnet changes the windows' sizes according to your placement instruction. Magnet is such an easy and empowering innovation that I'm at a loss as to why the capability isn't automatically included, by default, within macOS. CrowdCafe deserves credit for introducing the feature with such simple and elegant operation.

SEE: (TechRepublic) Worth every penny You need not take my word regarding the utility's power and ease of use—Magnet possesses hundreds of solid five-star reviews on. At the time of this writing, the program is just $0.99 (while discounted 80% for an unstated limited period), and it's the number one paid productivity app in the store. That said, I'd pay up to $10 or maybe even a little more for Magnet without a second thought. There's no going back to working without Magnet.

This image originally appeared on BestReviews – These days workspaces seem to be quite well organised — less piles of paper, pens, books, steaplers, pins and so on. But you know what a mess can be sometimes found on your Mac. And you surely know that decluterring your workspace declutters your mind — organising open windows with Magnet can instantly boost your productivity.

Magnet key features:. Left/Right/Top/Bottom halves and fullscreen & all four quarters of the screen supported. Activated by dragging, customizable keyboard shortcuts or via Menu bar. Up to six external displays supported That is the layouts you can choose from — fullscreen, halves, quarters and up to six external displays are supported. The potential combinations are multiple — you can naturally choose the best fit. Magnet makes it a breeze to copy content from one app to another, compare files side by side or multitask in any other way.Having multiple windows aligned neatly side by side eliminates switching between the apps and allows you to have all the information at hand.

You can switch to any position, for example, to the edge-to-edge fullscreen mode with a predefined shortcut. You can also create custom shortcuts that are handy for you. After a couple of days using Magnet you’ll come across more and more use cases for the app. You’ll feel how it helps you to get more done, to focus, and open up space emotionally and imaginatively. These feelings make the usage of Magnet quite addictive. I find Magnet especially helpful when working with texts or doing some kind of research. Magnet runs on all OS X versions since 10.8 Mountain Lion and is optimised for OS X 10.11 El Capitan, including Dark Mode support. The app boasts a 5-stars raring on the App Store (that is the highest appraisal of the app and the dream for every app publisher). You can get it now for just $0.99 (80% discount). – Magnet – 0.99 – Mac For more information, visit.