PinLayout
Every app, pinned in its place. On Mac and Windows.
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Plug your laptop back in and your apps go back to their own screens. PinLayout pins apps to zones, keeps a layout for each monitor and reopens pinned apps in place after a restart. One account for Mac and Windows. 7-day free trial, no card needed.
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PH · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Windows
- Mac
- Productivity
Similar launches
See all 330 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial A zone-based layout UI is buildable, but reliably pinning and restoring windows across macOS and Windows requires deep OS-level window management APIs and permissions work.
What it would actually take: A real version would be a native desktop app with a background agent that records window positions per monitor configuration and restores app placement on relaunch. On macOS this means Accessibility API and notarized signing; on Windows it means Win32 window APIs and handling DPI and display changes. The hard part is making restore reliable across apps and display setups, which calls for experienced native desktop engineers familiar with both OS platforms.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #172 of 331 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
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