A Moom alternative: simpler zones you draw and drag into

Moom is one of the most capable window managers on the Mac: a pop-up palette, saved layouts, keyboard control, chains of actions and more. Screen Divider is deliberately narrower. You draw the zones you want once, then drag windows into them. Here is an honest look at which one fits how you work.

What Moom does well

Moom, from Many Tricks, has been around for years and is still actively developed: version 4.6 came out on August 19, 2026. It costs $15 direct, with a free trial, at least a year of updates and a license that never expires. Owners of the older version can upgrade for $8, and the previous generation, Moom Classic, is still sold on the Mac App Store for $6.99.

Its range is the draw. Hover over a window's green button and a customizable palette of actions appears. You can save a layout of your apps and windows and restore the whole arrangement in one step, which is handy if your laptop moves between a desk monitor and the couch. It also has snap regions at the screen edges, drop zones built from a saved layout, an on-screen grid, full keyboard control, Hover move-and-resize with modifier keys, and chains that run several actions at once. If you like to tune every detail, Moom gives you the controls to do it.

Where Screen Divider is different

Screen Divider does one job. In its visual editor you split the screen into a grid, then merge neighbouring cells into the zones you actually use: a tall column for a browser, a wide strip along the bottom for a terminal, a small corner for chat. Save it, and from then on you drag any window by its title bar, an overlay shows the zone it will land in, and letting go snaps and resizes it to fill that zone.

There is less to learn and less to configure. You don't build actions, folders or chains; you draw a layout and drag. Each display keeps its own layout, so an ultrawide monitor can have five zones while the laptop screen keeps two. The trade-off is real, though: Screen Divider has no keyboard shortcuts and does not save or restore which windows go where. It only snaps the window you drag.

Moom details checked on manytricks.com (product page and release notes) and the Mac App Store, October 17, 2026.

Which should you choose?

Pick Moom if you want one tool that does everything: keyboard control, one-click restore of a full workspace, chained actions, or support for a Mac older than Ventura. It is a well-made app and the free trial makes it easy to find out. Pick Screen Divider if you keep the same arrangement all day, want zones that aren't even halves or thirds, and would rather draw a layout once and drag than set up actions. If all you need is free halves and quarters, Rectangle is free and good.

Weighing other options? See how Screen Divider compares as a Magnet alternative and a Divvy alternative, or read our guides to snapping windows on a Mac and splitting the screen on a Mac.

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