When comparing AROW vs Gridsutra, the Slant community recommends AROW for most people. In the question“What is the best window manager for Mac?” AROW is ranked 22nd while Gridsutra is ranked 38th. The most important reason people chose AROW is:
If you use external monitors, the app is useful. It also supports retina screen without problems.
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Pros
Pro Support for multiple monitors
If you use external monitors, the app is useful. It also supports retina screen without problems.
Pro Customizable options
You can customize the app in Option, for example, where you can change the appearance of the preview outline, adjust the width of the recognition areas, and set keyboard hotkeys for quick window snapping.
Pro Define OS X window buttons
AROW enables you to change the actions of OS X’s window buttons. It only requires either a right or a left-click for the action to take place.
Pro Smart Panel to move and resize windows
The customizable grid panel is very intuitive and is an accurate way to resize and move windows. Simply drag your mouse across its grid, the window will be moved, and resize to the exact position instantly.
Pro Easy ways to snap windows
Simply drag windows to the edges of your Mac’s screen. Once the cursor reaches the screen’s edge, the window will automatically move and resize to fill exactly half or quarter of the screen.
Pro Good Adobe support
Gridsutra has Adobe support with the ability of stacking Adobe windows.
Pro Simple UI
The interface if Gridsutra is well thought through and easy to use.
Pro Window arrangement with a single click
Windows can be arranged or snapped in Gridsutra with a single click.
Pro Intuitive UI and delightful user experience
Pro A great tool for a reasonable price
Pro Highly flexible
Gridsutra works with most MacOS applications.
Pro Great drag and drop functionality
The drag and drop option in the layout gives freedom to the user for arrangement of any windows to any positions desired.
Pro Useful ignore/unignore feature
The ignore / unignore feature in Gridsutra allows the user to block unwanted applications to be listed in the layout option.
Pro Custom layout support
Cons
Con Trouble with GUI
Yosemite (10.10.5) it works but it's impossible to open the application GUI.
