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Moom VS Cairo Shell

Compare Moom VS Cairo Shell and see what are their differences

Moom logo 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).

Cairo Shell logo Cairo Shell

Cairo is a desktop environment for Windows.
  • Moom Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-14
  • Cairo Shell Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-19

Moom videos

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  • Review - Mixed Nuts: MOOM (Awesome Window Resizing Tool for Mac Users)
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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Moom and Cairo Shell)
Window Manager
100 100%
0% 0
Image Optimisation
0 0%
100% 100
OSX Tools
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0% 0
Note Taking
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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare Moom and Cairo Shell

Moom Reviews

Best 6 Mac Window Managers
Although it’s the default way of controlling Moom, you can operate this Mac window organizer in other ways too. Head into Moom’s settings, and you can set up keyboard shortcuts, as well as drag and drop.
Source: mackeeper.com
Top 6 Window Manager Apps for Mac
While Moom is similar to other apps on this list, it does have a few tricks up its sleeve. First, there are several ways to use the app. You can either set it up in your Dock, have it stay in the Menu Bar, or use it as an invisible app running in the background.
The 6 Best Mac Window Management Tools
Moom lets you resize your window differently. Instead of putting everything in the menu bar, the window management options reside inside the green button. To view those different arrangements, you'll have to press the Option key while hovering your mouse over the green button.
Moom vs Magnet vs Spectacle
But that’s not all. Moom supports window layouts snapshots. This means that it can record where is each window so they can be restored after a trigger. This trigger can be connecting a second display or just a keyboard shortcut. This feature makes this tool way more powerful than its rivals.
Source: medium.com

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Moom seems to be a lot more popular than Cairo Shell. While we know about 65 links to Moom, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Cairo Shell. 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.

Moom mentions (65)

  • Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for 10 years
    Most of the time, I don’t. It sounds silly but macOS window management works best when you don’t micromanage and just let windows pile up at whichever size fits their content, kind of like papers on a desk. Instead I group windows by virtual desktop (space) on two monitors, switching out virtual desktops to mix and match sets of windows. Individual windows are rarely moved or resized. On the odd occasion I need... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
    I similarly find something like Yabai a bit too heavy-handed for my needs, and instead prefer Moom[0]. I find that only need tiling occasionally, and for that Moom excels since it doesn’t add any new key shortcuts to memorize and is only ever visibly present when hovering your cursor over a window’s green button. Its Aero Snap equivalent is optional and turned off by default too, which is great for me (I trigger... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
  • Rethinking Window Management in Gnome
    I ended up using Moom [1] to work around some of the oddities of macOS window management. It's relatively low-feature, mostly for window arrangements and sizing. I use it on a vertical monitor to split window placement horizontally, since macOS can only natively do vertical splits. It has other features too (like saving layouts and keyboard shortcuts), but I don't use them that much. 1. https://manytricks.com/moom/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
  • Any alternatives to Sizer4 for Mac? (Resizing a window to a specific size like 1024x768)
    Moom by Many Tricks (https://manytricks.com/moom/). Source: 12 months ago
  • MOOM doesn't work with Vivaldi
    I've got question tho, I'm using MOOM (https://manytricks.com/moom/) to help me organize application window. But somehow, it doesn't work on Vivaldi window. Source: 12 months ago
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Cairo Shell mentions (2)

  • Microsoft is turning Windows 11's Start Menu into an advertisement delivery system
    Back when I was an edgy teenager I tried every Windows desktop shell replacement available. My favorites were LiteStep and Emerge Desktop. I was there when Cairo Shell first emerged but has never tried a working version since I moved to other OSes before any usable version was out. I am now using Windows for work and I think it’s time to revisit these options. Source: over 1 year ago
  • My first personal server
    Hyper-V Server 2019 gets my vote, with the Cairo Desktop it's a near unbeatable setup. Add the FoD pack, browser of your choice, Windows Admin Center for local management of the entire system including virtualized guests. It's a very robust enterprise grade server that requires NO LICENSE and ends up having a very nice GUI for a core server. Source: over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Moom and Cairo Shell, you can also consider the following products

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

VirtuaWin - VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7/Win10). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces').

Magnet Window Manager - Magnet Developers

bug.n - Provide views (i. e. virtual desktops) for showing only those windows, which you need to do your work..

Mizage Divvy - Divvy is an entirely new way of managing your workspace.

Dexpot - If you don't have Dexpot yet, the new update makes it a must-have tool for Windows, adding a ton of features to your desktop that you never knew you wanted.