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A one-click window manager for macOS. Click any app and Tile arranges its open windows into a clean grid. No keyboard shortcuts to memorize, no snap zones to drag toward, no scripts to configure. Adjustable gaps. Optional Watch Mode that auto-tiles as windows open and close. Zero data collection, no network access. $4.99 one-time purchase, no subscription.

What's in the app

• One-click tiling. Click any app to arrange its windows into a clean, even grid. No dragging, no snapping zones, no keyboard shortcuts.
• Watch Mode. Optional auto-tiling as windows open and close. Per-app toggle. Resets each session for safety — you opt in fresh each launch.
• Adjustable gaps. A slider controls the spacing between tiled windows. Set it once; every tile operation respects it.
• Privacy first. Zero data collection, no network access, no analytics. Everything stays on your Mac.
• $4.99 once. No subscription. No trial that expires. Buy it, own it.

Why the studio shipped this

The macOS window-management market has two endpoints. On one end: keyboard-driven tilers like Rectangle and Magnet, which expect you to memorize shortcuts and trigger one window at a time. On the other end: scriptable tiling window managers like Yabai, which require disabling System Integrity Protection and editing config files.

Tile sits between them. The user the studio designed for is the person who wants their desktop organized but does not want a keyboard layout to learn, does not want to drag windows to invisible zones, and does not want to edit a config file. Click the app you want tiled. Tile arranges its windows. Done.

The studio shipped Tile because that user wasn't being served — everything in the category was either too keyboard-heavy or too configuration-heavy. The product is the answer to "I just want it tiled, can the computer do it for me without me reading a manual."

How it was made

Native Swift and SwiftUI for macOS. The window-manipulation layer uses macOS's AXUIElement Accessibility API, which is how every legitimate Mac window manager works — including Rectangle and Magnet. The Accessibility API is the supported way to read window positions and move windows under user control; Apple ships it for assistive technology and gives third-party apps the same access when the user grants Accessibility permission.

Watch Mode hooks into Accessibility notifications for window creation and destruction. Per-app toggles live in user defaults; the per-session reset is intentional, not a bug — the studio's stance is that any feature that rearranges windows automatically should be a conscious decision the user makes each time, not a setting that quietly does something the user forgot about.

Zero networking. The app has no infrastructure on the studio's side; there is nothing for Tile to phone home to because there is no home. The privacy posture is enforced by absence, not by policy.

What Tile is not

Not a tiling window manager in the X11 / i3 / Yabai sense, where the system enforces a fixed tile layout and forbids overlapping windows. macOS doesn't allow that without disabling SIP, and the studio is not in the business of asking users to weaken system security to use a window manager.

Not a productivity dashboard, a window-spy app, or an analytics service. It's a tile button. The product is the button.

Frequently asked

What is Tile?

Tile is a one-click window manager for macOS. Click any app and Tile arranges its open windows into a clean, even grid. There are no keyboard shortcuts to memorize, no snap zones to drag toward, and no scripts to configure.

How is Tile different from Rectangle, Magnet, or Yabai?

Rectangle and Magnet are keyboard-driven tilers: you press a shortcut to move the focused window into a half or quadrant. Yabai is a scriptable tiling window manager that requires disabling System Integrity Protection on macOS. Tile is one-click: you click the app you want tiled and it arranges every window that app has open. Different ergonomic posture for a different user — the person who wants their desktop organized without learning a keyboard layout or editing config files.

What does Watch Mode do?

Auto-tile as windows open and close. Toggle per-app. Watch Mode resets each session for safety, so you opt in fresh each time you launch Tile — the studio's stance is that any feature that rearranges windows automatically should be a conscious decision, not a setting you forgot was on.

Can I control the spacing between tiled windows?

Yes. A slider controls the gap between tiled windows. Set it once; every tile operation respects it.

How much does Tile cost?

$4.99, one-time purchase. No subscription. You own it after you buy it.

Does Tile collect data?

No. Zero data collection, no network access, no analytics. Tile runs entirely on your Mac and has no infrastructure of the studio's to leak anything through.

What macOS versions does Tile support?

macOS 14 (Sonoma) and later. Tile uses modern macOS Accessibility APIs that earlier versions don't ship with.

Where is the full case study?

Blake's personal case study — including the deeper take on why Tile sits between Rectangle and Yabai in the macOS window-manager landscape, the AXUIElement-not-SIP design decision, and the session-reset Watch Mode discipline — lives at blakecrosley.com/work/tile. This page is the studio's product overview.