Mac
macOS 27 or later, Apple silicon. Signed and notarized by Apple.
Your windows, in a row. Glide.
Glide puts every window in a column on an endless horizontal strip and moves you through them with the keyboard or trackpad. No more windows piled on windows. For Mac and Windows.
How it works
Every window is a column
New windows open to the right of the one you’re using. Columns fill the screen’s height in set widths: ⅓, ½, ⅔ or full.
Glide along the strip
The arrow keys take you from column to column, and the strip scrolls just enough to show the one in focus.
Arrange without dragging
Add Shift to take the window with you. Stack windows in a column, turn them into tabs, or send them to another workspace.
Made for the keyboard
One chord for everything
Everything starts with ⌃⌥ on Mac and Win on Windows. Every shortcut can be changed.
Nine workspaces and an overview
Each workspace is its own strip. ⌃⌥O or Win+Tab shows them all; type to find a window.
Never lose a window
Turn Glide off or quit it and every window comes back on screen. If Glide crashes, a watchdog does the same.
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Windows
Windows 11, x64 or Arm. Installs without administrator rights.
Not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info › Run anyway.
Mac and Windows
| Feature | Mac | Windows |
|---|---|---|
| Tiling | ||
| Columns on an endless horizontal strip | Yes | Yes |
| Stacks: several windows in one column | Yes | Yes |
| Tabbed columns | Yes | Yes |
| Width presets, full width and centering | Yes | Yes |
| Tiled layout, or the scrolling strip, per workspaceOn Windows, Win+Ctrl+T switches the workspace; on Mac, ⌃⌥T. In the tiled layout every column shares the screen, with no scrolling. Each workspace keeps its own layout, and Settings › General › Layout sets what new ones start with. | Yes | Yes |
| Resize a column by dragging its edge | Yes | Yes |
| Floating windows | Yes | Yes |
| Slide animation | Yes | Yes |
| Drag a window into a stack, tabs or another monitor | Yes | Yes |
| Workspaces and monitors | ||
| Nine workspaces | Yes | Yes |
| Every monitor tiled, with its own workspaces | Yes | Yes |
| Workspaces in use, in the menu bar or trayOn Windows the tray icon shows a 3×3 grid of the nine workspaces, with the ones in use lit. Glide for Mac shows their numbers in the menu bar. | Yes | Yes |
| Workspace numbers on screen when switching | Yes | Yes |
| Overview of every workspace, filtered by typing | Yes | Yes |
| Live window previews in the overviewOn Mac, with the Screen Recording permission; app icons without it. | Partly | Yes |
| Input | ||
| A shortcut for every action, all rebindable | Yes | Yes |
| Warnings for shortcuts that clash | Yes | Yes |
| Three-finger swipe along the strip | Yes | Yes |
| Mouse wheel along the strip | Yes | Yes |
| Take over the system’s window shortcutsOn Mac, Glide’s ⌃⌥ shortcuts don’t clash with macOS. | Not needed | Yes |
| Appearance | ||
| Gap between windows | Yes | Yes |
| Focus ring in any color | Yes | Yes |
| Focus ring thickness | Yes | Yes |
| Dim unfocused windows | Yes | Yes |
| Behavior | ||
| Per-app rules: float, tile, width, workspace | Yes | Yes |
| Apps reopen where you keep them | Yes | Yes |
| Windows put back when tiling stops or Glide quits | Yes | Yes |
| Crash watchdog that puts windows back | Yes | Yes |
| Start at login | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic updates | Yes | Yes |
| Manage apps running as administratorWindows only: restart Glide as administrator. | Not needed | Yes |
Open source
Read it, change it
Glide is free and MIT licensed. The code is on GitHub: Mac (Swift) and Windows (C#).
Nothing leaves your computer
No accounts, analytics or tracking. Glide only asks GitHub whether there’s a newer version. Privacy policy