Xpectacle
A free Mac window manager, one shortcut at a time
Details
- External ID
- 1257689
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Xpectacle
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Open Source, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Description
A powerful window manager for your Mac. Move, resize, and center windows with keyboard shortcuts. Free, open source, and inspired by Spectacle. Move, resize, and center your Mac’s windows with keyboard shortcuts. Xpectacle is a free, open-source window manager inspired by Spectacle, rebuilt in Swift for Apple Silicon.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- keyboard-driven window manager for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While standard window management scripts are straightforward, a reliable macOS desktop utility requires native macOS Accessibility and CoreGraphics C/Swift APIs that frequently break across OS updates.
What it would actually take: A production version requires a native Swift macOS app integrating macOS Accessibility APIs (AXUIElement) and Quartz Display Services/CoreGraphics. The difficult parts are properly handling multiple monitor setups, differing DPI scales, macOS space switching, sandboxing/permission prompts, and edge cases where third-party apps do not adhere to standard accessibility hierarchies. Expertise in low-level macOS system programming and event handling is required.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 218 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #64 of 219 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- Sidebar based/tabbed tiling window manager for macOS · hn · 2026-04-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Smooth window arrangement in macOS restored · hn · 2025-11-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Chain Your Mac · ph · 2026-09-20 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Split · ph · 2026-09-25 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Sash · hn · 2026-04-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Switchover · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- SoloDisplay · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Mac Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 98 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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