Snug 1.1: chain your windows in one straight line

Tiling has one weakness: every new window makes the others smaller. Snug 1.1 adds a way out. Chains stop shrinking your windows.

One straight line

Press ⌃⌥H and your windows line up in a single row that runs off both sides of the display. Each keeps its size, two fill the screen edge to edge, and nothing hides behind anything. Press ⌃⌥ + arrow and the row slides on a spring at 60 frames a second, starting the moment you press the key.

Press ⌃⌥V for Vertical Chain, which runs top to bottom. macOS won’t let a window go above the menu bar, so the windows that don’t fit slide out to the side instead.

Short keys

Keys	What they do
⌃⌥ ← / →	Move along the chain
⌃⌥⇧ ← / →	Move the window
⌃⌥R	Cycle width
⌃⌥F	Full width
⌃⌥C	Center
⌃⌥] / [	Stack into the column before or after
⌃⌥⇧]	Pop out of a column
⌃⌥⇧T	Show a column as tabs

Outside a chain, ⌃⌥F still floats a window and ⌃⌥] and ⌃⌥[ still step through a stack. ⌃⌥T now floats a window everywhere.

Also in 1.1

Display zones divide a wide screen into parts, each with its own layout. You can drag the gaps inside columns and between Grid tiles, apply scenes with ⌃⌥1–9, and control Snug from Shortcuts. Snug now speaks German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. The changelog has everything, including a long list of fixes.

Snug 1.1 is a free update for everyone on 1.x. Download it or wait for the update inside the app. New here? It’s $14.99 once, for macOS 15 or later.