Pinned Tools
Put any window exactly where you want it, from the keyboard. Halves, thirds, two thirds, quarters, centred, filled, or thrown onto the next display.
USD 19, paid once. Covers every 1.x release. macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon and Intel.
Why it is not on the Mac App Store
Moving another application's window is only possible through the macOS Accessibility API, and macOS never grants that to a sandboxed app. The App Store requires the sandbox. There is no version of this app that can satisfy both, so it is sold here instead, signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, which is the other way Apple supports.
Pinned and Pinned Notes are sandboxed and are on the App Store. This one cannot be, and saying so plainly is better than pretending it was a choice.
The shortcuts
Thirteen of them, on control and option. Never command, because every application owns its command combinations, and control-option is the pair macOS itself leaves alone.
| Shortcut | Puts the window |
|---|---|
| ⌃⌥← ⌃⌥→ | Left half, right half |
| ⌃⌥↑ ⌃⌥↓ | Top half, bottom half |
| ⌃⌥1 to ⌃⌥4 | The four quarters |
| ⌃⌥5 to ⌃⌥7 | Left, centre and right thirds |
| ⌃⌥C | Centred, keeping its size |
| ⌃⌥↩ | Filling the screen |
| ⌃⌥D | On the next display |
Two thirds and fill-with-a-margin are in the menu and ship without a shortcut, because every combination taken by default is one you cannot use for something else.
Things it gets right
The screen you meant
A window is on the display it overlaps most, not the one its corner is in. Drag a window most of the way onto a second monitor and fill the screen: it fills the one you dragged it to.
No edge left showing
The right third is anchored to the right edge rather than measured from the left, so a width that does not divide by three leaves no sliver of desktop.
Between two monitors
Moving a window to another display keeps where it sits proportionally. Two displays are rarely the same size, and shifting it by the difference throws a centred window off the edge of a smaller one.
Nothing is watched
Shortcuts are registered with macOS one combination at a time. The app never installs a keyboard monitor, so it never sees anything you type.
Your licence works offline
There is no licence server. Your key is checked on your own Mac with a signature, the app makes no request when it starts, and it keeps working with the network off forever. An app that has to phone home to ask whether you may run it stops working the day the seller loses interest, and this one is bought outright.
The licence carries your name and covers every 1.x release. It is a receipt, not a lock: a check inside a binary you own can be removed by somebody determined enough, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
Before you buy. Download it, grant Accessibility when it asks, and see whether it fits your hands. Everything works during the trial.
Getting your licence in
Buying sends a key to your email beginning PT1-. Open Pinned Tools from the
menu bar, choose Licence, and paste the whole key. If it wrapped across lines in your mail
client, paste it anyway: the line breaks are ignored.