Waki Grid features
01 / Layouts
Pick a layout, or draw the one your work needs.
Six built-in layouts cover the usual cases. When they do not, draw zones on a canvas shaped like your display, overlap them if you like, set the gaps, and save as many variations as you have kinds of work.
- Built-in layouts you can previewHalves, thirds, quarters, main + side, focus and a 3×2 grid. Hover a card to preview it on your screen before you commit.
- Custom zones on a canvasDraw zones on a canvas shaped like your display. Zones can overlap; gaps are adjustable; each layout is named and saved.
- One layout per displayAssign a layout to each connected display, or let every display follow the one you selected. Layouts remember which display they belong to.
- Built-in positions never go awayHalves, thirds, quarters, full screen and center are always available next to your zones, in every arrangement method.
02 / Drag & snap
Drag a window into a zone. Let go. Done.
Hold Shift while dragging and your zones appear over the display; release over one and the window is moved and resized to fit. Prefer edges? Drag to a side for a half, a corner for a quarter, the top for full screen.
Hold Shift while dragging to reveal zones, move over a zone, then release to snap the window into place.
- Zones appear while you dragChoose when the zones show: on a Shift-drag, an Option-drag, or every drag. Release over the zone you want.
- Edges and cornersDrag to the left or right edge for a half, into a corner for a quarter, to the top edge for full screen, without any layout at all.
- Restore and undoDrag a snapped window out and it returns to its previous size. Undo the last snap if the window landed wrong.
03 / Shortcuts
Place any window without touching the mouse.
One shortcut shows numbered zones over the front window; press the number and it is there. Give your favourite zones their own shortcuts, or step through the layout with next and previous.
Open the numbered zone palette, choose zone two, and the front window moves into the right-hand zone. Shortcuts are configurable.
- The numbered paletteA shortcut lays the zones over the front window’s display with a number on each. Press 1 to 9 or click. Esc closes it.
- Shortcuts per zone and per positionAssign a key combination to any zone, to next and previous zone, and to the built-in positions: left half, right half, maximize, center.
- Every shortcut in one listSettings shows everything Waki Grid listens for, in one place, so nothing collides with your other apps.
04 / App rules
Apps open where they belong. Every time.
Pair an app with a zone or a built-in position. When it launches, its window goes straight there. After a restart, a new display or a messy afternoon, Arrange All puts every app with a rule back in its place.
Assign an app to a zone. When that app launches, Waki Grid places its window in the assigned zone.
- A rule per appPick a running app and where its window should land: a zone of your layout or a built-in position. Rules are edited in a plain list.
- Placement on launchThe rule fires the moment the app’s window appears. No dragging, no shortcut, no thinking.
- Arrange AllOne action, or one shortcut, places every running app that has a rule. The fastest way to rebuild a desk.
05 / Appearance
Light or dark for the whole Mac, on one key.
Switch macOS between light and dark from Waki Grid, its menu bar item, or a shortcut that works in any app. Every app that follows the system appearance switches with it.
A shortcut for the whole Mac’s appearance
- The system setting, not a themeThis changes macOS itself. Mail, Safari, Xcode and everything else set to “Auto” or “System” follow.
- A shortcut in any appThe default is ⌃⌥⌘D; change it to whatever you like. The menu bar item shows the current mode.
- Waki Grid’s own look stays yoursThe app’s theme and mode are a separate choice, shared with every Waki app.