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Window Tidy vs Cinch

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When comparing Window Tidy vs Cinch, the Slant community recommends Window Tidy for most people. In the question“What is the best window manager for Mac?” Window Tidy is ranked 33rd while Cinch is ranked 36th. The most important reason people chose Window Tidy is:

When you want to resize a window you just drag it on the screen and your configured workspaces appear immediately, semi-transparent. Then you just drag and drop your window above the configuration that you want to use.

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Pros

Pro
Easy drag and drop interface

Pro
Allows multiple workspace configurations

Window Tidy facilitates not just window sizes, but windows that are precisely sized to fit together to fill up the screen.

Pro
Fine tune window sizes

You can set up windows to fit as large or as small of an area on your screen as you would like. For example, if you want a 1/3 left, 1/3, center, 1/9 top right, 1/9 center right, and 1/9 bottom right, you can and it is easy to set up.

Pro
Free and paid versions

There are both versions of Cinch available, though the free version can be naggy.

Pro
Simple and easy to use

So simple, even my grandma can use it

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Cons

Con
Doesn't work - has been abandoned

Con
Workspaces don't show up when you drag a window

Workspaces will only appear on one desktop, but not the others.

Con
Does not support the border of multiple displays well

When using multiple displays, the ability to dock a window to half of a display only works on one side of the screen divide. It can work (with some very careful cursor placement) only on the external monitor and not dividing edge of the native (laptop) monitor. It does not support quarter-splits either.

Bottom line, this was a great initial app, adding this capability before anyone else did, but it has been eclipsed by newer apps.