Sweet window management for macOS
demo-light.mp4
There are several ways:
- 💰 Buy it at swiftshift.app (pay what you want)
- 🍺 Install it with homebrew
brew install --cask swift-shift - ⬇️ Download the latest release on Github
- 🚀 Clone it and build it yourself
- Launch at login
- Hide menubar icon
- Focus on window
- Smart resizing with quadrants
- Ignore custom apps
quadrants-light.mp4
You can either use Xcode (be careful with signing) or build it directly from the command line:
make runMake sure you don't have Swift Shift running already. If you have 2 versions of Swift Shift, only one will get Accessibility permissions. To fix it:
- Quit all Swift Shift instances
- Remove Swift Shift from the System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Accessibility
- Run the app you want to test
- Enable Accessibility permissions
I'm open to PRs and requests. If you are looking for something to do, take a look at the issues marked as help wanted.
One-time setup: store notarization credentials in your keychain:
- Generate an app-specific password at appleid.apple.com (Sign-In and Security → App-Specific Passwords)
- Run:
xcrun notarytool store-credentials "SwiftShift" --apple-id YOUR_APPLE_ID --team-id YOUR_TEAM_IDIt will prompt you to paste the app-specific password.
Then release with a single command:
make release VERSION=0.28.0This will: bump the version, archive, export, notarize, staple, generate the appcast, create a branch/commit/tag, open a PR with auto-merge, create a GitHub release with the zip attached, and update the Homebrew cask automatically.
If GH_PAT is available in the environment, the release script will use it to push the Homebrew tap update to pablopunk/homebrew-brew.
MIT License

