Your windows, exactly
where you left them.
Unplug the dock, open the lid at a café, wake from sleep — macOS piles every window onto one screen and calls it a day. MinoPane puts them all back in under a second. And it never asks you to save anything: arranging your windows is the save.
Sixteen years of the same complaint
Apple communities have asked since 2010. The fix still is not built in.
“Connecting and disconnecting external monitors is a disaster.”
MinoPane detects the dock, and every window is back in under a second — no animation theater, just done.
Layout apps make you save profiles — then lose everything you arranged after saving.
There is no save button. Moving a window is saving it. The app learns continuously.
Home, office, café — different monitors, different muscle memory.
Each setup is recognized like a fingerprint — same-model monitors, clamshell open or closed, even if you swap ports.
“Why did my windows just move?” Automation you cannot trust is worse than none.
Every restore shows a 5-second undo toast. One click puts it back the way it was.
No save button. That is the feature.
Every competitor asks you to store layouts by hand. MinoPane just watches you work.
Auto-learning layouts
Move a window and MinoPane remembers — continuously, silently. No profiles to configure, no snapshots to remember before sleep. You already saved your layout, by making it.
Sub-second restore + undo
Dock detected → windows back instantly. A 5-second undo toast follows every restore — the first in this category.
Knows home from office
Monitor configurations are fingerprinted automatically. Three setups, zero configuration.
Snapping, free forever
Halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, size cycling, window gaps, move-to-display — plus Spectacle and Rectangle shortcut import. Everything the good free apps do, free here too. Forever.
Mis-placement beats guessing
If a window match is uncertain, MinoPane leaves it alone. Automation you can trust starts with knowing when to do nothing.
Reads positions, not contents
Window titles and positions only. Network calls: license check and update check. That is the whole list. No SIP changes, no screen recording.
How MinoPane compares
The snapping is table stakes. The restore is the product.
| MinoPane | Rectangle Pro | Moom 4 | macOS built-in | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auto-learning (no save button) | — | — | — | |
| Recognizes each monitor setup | — | partial | — | |
| Sub-second restore | mixed reviews | mixed reviews | — | |
| Undo for restores | first | — | — | — |
| Thirds / advanced snapping | free | — | ||
| Price | $15 once | $9.99 | $15 | free |
Snapping free. Restore, once.
Use it as a great free snapping app. Upgrade the day your dock betrays you.
Free
- All snapping: halves, thirds, quarters, sixths
- Size cycling + window gaps
- Move windows across displays
- Spectacle / Rectangle shortcut import
- Keyboard-first everything
Pro
One-time- Auto-learning layouts — no save button
- Per-setup automatic restore
- Restore on wake from sleep
- Named layouts
- 14-day full-featured trial
- 14-day refund, no questions
Frequently asked questions
Dock in. Everything back.
Snapping is free forever. The restore has a 14-day full trial.
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