WindowReturn
Restore your Mac windows across displays and Desktops
Details
- External ID
- 1252086
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- WindowReturn
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
Description
Save and restore Mac window layouts across displays and Desktops. WindowReturn remembers sizes and positions, switches layouts when matching monitors connect, and can reopen saved apps and Finder folders. Preview each Desktop, then get back to work with one click. A native menu bar app with a 14-day free trial.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- window position restorer for mac multi-monitor setups
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A native macOS menu bar app that monitors display topologies and programmatically manipulates third-party window positions requires deep interaction with private or low-level macOS Accessibility and CoreGraphics APIs.
What it would actually take: The app must be written in Swift/Objective-C leveraging macOS Accessibility (AXUIElement) APIs, CoreGraphics, and Display Services to detect monitor connect/disconnect events and query window geometry. The hard parts are handling multi-space/virtual desktop detection (which lacks public APIs), permission sandboxing restrictions, and glitch-free window repositioning across diverse third-party app frameworks. It requires specialized macOS systems programming expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 381 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #109 of 382 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.
- Resettle · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- MacLayout · hn · 2026-03-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- DisplaySpan · ph · 2026-09-18 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Switchover · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Cue for Monitors · ph · 2026-09-24 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Smooth window arrangement in macOS restored · hn · 2025-11-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Split · ph · 2026-09-25 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- docklayout · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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