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Cinch VS Hookshot

Compare Cinch VS Hookshot and see what are their differences

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Cinch allows you to resize your windows simply by dragging them to a screen edge

Hookshot logo Hookshot

Cursor movement window snapping on macOS
  • Cinch Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-30
  • Hookshot Landing page
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    2023-04-12

Cinch videos

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Category Popularity

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Cinch

Hookshot

Window Manager
17 17%
Window Manager
83% 83
OSX Tools
18 18%
OSX Tools
82% 82
OSX Window Manager
28 28%
OSX Window Manager
72% 72
Mac Tools
15 15%
Mac Tools
85% 85

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Hookshot seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 23 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Cinch mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Cinch yet. Tracking of Cinch recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Hookshot mentions (23)

  • macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux
    Rectangle and its paid cousin, Hookshot (https://hookshot.app) are great. I use Hookshot. They are the best window managers I've used on MacOS, because the resize features work flawlessly every single time. Other ones I've tried (e.g. bettertouchtool) have occasional issues with that. They'd be perfect if they supported full customization of drop zones. They have some limited customization, including via the... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
  • macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux
    Since a few people already have mentioned Rectangle for Window management, I wanted to point out that there is also a payed version of it called Hookshot (https://hookshot.app/). The same developer also offers a great app called Hyperkey (https://hyperkey.app/) which defines CAPS as your hyper-key. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
  • MacBook apps you can't live without!
    Hookshot - A mouse/gesture-based window manager. I always have one installed and then almost never use it. This I started using right away. Then I realized the only things I used it for were built into Raycast. Still, it's my favorite of the window management tools that I've tried. Source: over 2 years ago
  • My new Setup! Ultra Wide Monitor ans 16“ M1 Max 😍🤩
    I've got the same setup. Hookshot and SwitchResX are essential. Source: over 2 years ago
  • LG 34WK95U review (from MBP 16" 2021 perspective)
    The LG software is trash, I bought Hookshot.app to better manage my windows. Source: over 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cinch and Hookshot, you can also consider the following products

LayAuto - Automated window management for Mac ✨

Magnet Window Manager - Magnet Developers

Spectacle App - Move and resize windows with ease.

Moom - Move your mouse over the green zoom button in any window, and Moom's mouse control overlay will appear (as seen in the above animation).

Rectangle - Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.

BetterSnapTool - 10 Oct 2017 . BetterSnapTool allows you to easily manage your window positions and sizes by either dragging them to one of the screen's corners or to the top, left or right side of the screen.

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