SnapState
Save your Mac windows. Restore them instantly.
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SnapState is a Mac window-layout app. Save your window layouts as workspaces and restore them in one click, so plugging in a monitor or switching tasks never scrambles your desktop. $9.99 one-time purchase.
PH · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop window managers · 103 launches, 13 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 103 launches in desktop window managers →
Could you build this?
Partial The saved-layout UI and settings are standard, but the core feature relies on macOS Accessibility APIs in native Swift. Handling window positions reliably across monitor changes and apps that resist control is hard to get right.
What it would actually take: This would be a native Swift/AppKit app using the Accessibility API (AXUIElement) and the window server to read and set window frames, plus a display-configuration observer to detect monitor changes. The hard part is edge cases: apps with restricted window management, full-screen spaces, and permission handling and notarization. It needs macOS platform expertise and extensive testing across hardware setups.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 354 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #89 of 355 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 361 days after the earliest competitor.
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- WindowReturn · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Many Displays · ph · 2026-10-24 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Layr · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Zonewell · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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