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Windownaut for Mac

Lightweight window manager.

$4.99
In English
Version 1.3.1
4.0
Based on 6 user rates

Windownaut overview

Windownaut is a lightweight and robust window resizer, mover, and more, that aims to have a very small footprint. It allows you to easily resize, move, and add a variety of new control options to almost all app windows. Does not use any system hacks or tricks: it works using standard magical Apple APIs.

Features
  • Window quadrant/corner-aware resizing
  • Eight edge rapid window snapping--simply drag window to an edge and it will resize into one of eight sizes
  • Keyboard and menu bar icon shortcuts for window layouts including a rapid "Cycle layouts" option and "Move to next screen"
  • Move and resize windows from anywhere on the window and without activation
  • Easy to use traffic control buttons customization: 1- Show a visual window layout menu; 2- Quit, not merely close, an app; 3-Force quit an app; 4- Open Finder showing document associated with a document window

Fully functional 14-day trial with a reminder for every 10 operations performed.

What’s new in version 1.3.1

Version 1.3.1:

Note: Now requires OS X 10.10 or later running on a 64-bit Intel processor

  • [Note] Fixes for OS X 10.10 and 10.11
  • [Fix] Zoom/Fullscreen window button actions are now working again under OS X 10.10 and 10.11.
  • [Fix] Window move and resize shortcut saving broke under OS X 10.10/10.11. Fixed.
  • [New] Better looking snap indicator.

Windownaut for Mac

$4.99
In English
Version 1.3.1
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4.0

(13 Reviews of Windownaut)

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Tachy0n
Tachy0n
Jan 9 2023
1.3.1
0.0
Jan 9 2023
0.0
Version: 1.3.1
Version 1.2.6 seems to be the only one on the website. Still works in 12.6.1. I wonder what happened to 1.3.1. Does anyone have a link?
Tachy0n
Tachy0n
Oct 21 2015
1.2.6
0.0
Oct 21 2015
0.0
Version: 1.2.6
Windownaut still runs in Yosemite, except you can't use the function where you click on the green button to get the dropdown menu. Because this hasn't been updated and Yosemite just thinks you wanted to use full-screen mode. Maybe if there is a hack to turn that off, Windownaut’s function might work again. For now I will stick with the keyboard shortcuts.
Maudlin
Maudlin
Jul 31 2014
1.2.6
0.5
Jul 31 2014
0.5
Version: 1.2.6
I bought this for the move and resize functions. Unfortunately, these freeze every few minutes and can only be brought back to life by quitting and restarting Windownaut. I can't be doing this every 10-15 minutes throughout the day . The problem occurs with both Mavericks and Snow Leopard. I've emailed the developer for suggestions, but had no response after 3 weeks. I've now bought Zooom2 which costs more - but works, unlike this product.
Aargl
Aargl
Jun 5 2014
1.2.6
5.0
Jun 5 2014
5.0
Version: 1.2.6
The last post on the dev's blog being from april 2012, I fear it's another abandonware... :-/
jamessezhi
jamessezhi
Mar 4 2013
1.2.6
5.0
Mar 4 2013
5.0
Version: 1.2.6
Love this application!!
Maudlin
Maudlin
Jul 31 2014
0.5
Jul 31 2014
0.5
Version: null
jamessezhi
jamessezhi
Mar 4 2013
5.0
Mar 4 2013
5.0
Version: null
Aargl
Aargl
Feb 22 2013
5.0
Feb 22 2013
5.0
Version: null
f-rol-orange-fr1926
f-rol-orange-fr1926
May 12 2012
5.0
May 12 2012
5.0
Version: null
Cjbolland
Cjbolland
Mar 17 2012
3.5
Mar 17 2012
3.5
Version: null
E101
E101
Mar 6 2012
5.0
Mar 6 2012
5.0
Version: null