When comparing Gridsutra vs Magnet, the Slant community recommends Magnet for most people. In the question“What is the best window manager for Mac?” Magnet is ranked 11th while Gridsutra is ranked 38th. The most important reason people chose Magnet is:
Easy to learn keyboard shortcuts.
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Pros
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
Pro Keyboard centric
Easy to learn keyboard shortcuts.
Pro Intuitive handling
Just drag the window to one of the sides of the screen and it snaps there. This is especially useful for those who can't be bothered remembering the shortcuts.
Pro Cheap
At $0.99, it is not that expensive.
Pro Mouse controllable
Supports dragging a window along the edges of the screen to activate.
Pro Do not have to learn or remember keyboard shortcuts
Pro It's often on sale
For example, at the writing of this pro it's currently at $1.
Pro Up to six external displays supported
Cons
Con Cannot setup custom sizes and window positions
Unfortunately, you can only move windows to preset positions.
Con Can only be purchased from the App Store
Magnet is only available in App Store.
Con Can't hide the menu bar icon
It would've been nice to be able to hide the icon so it doesn't clutter the menu bar.
Con Interference when switching between folders
Default Folder-X app "warns" that Magnet App may interfere with it's ability to switch between folders in Open and Save dialogue boxes.
Con Causes cursor bugs in IntelliJ IDEs
Unfortunately, Magnet causes the caret to bounce around in IntelliJ IDEs, this is very annoying.