SMBAct vs AquaSnap
Are you looking for AquaSnap replacement that offers additional features, enhanced customer support, and cross-platform compatibility beyond just Windows? Look no further than SMBAct - the all-in-one solution that meets all of your requirements and more!
SMBAct provides you with the flexibility to move and resize windows effortlessly by using keyboard shortcuts or the Window Actor feature, which allows you to perform a quick and easy search for any necessary actions. Furthermore, SMBAct enables you to switch focus between windows, activate, hide, close, and maximize any window according to your preference.
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Comparing SMBAct vs AquaSnap
Let's see in details why users prefer SMBAct over AquaSnap.
| Sizing and Positioning | SMBAct | AquaSnap |
|---|---|---|
| Use Keyboard Shortcuts to snap windows | ✓ | ✓ |
| Halves, Quarters commands | ✓ | ✓ |
| Thirds, Fourths, Sixths, Eights commands | ✓ | — |
| Maximize, Smaller, Larger, Center, Next/Prev Display commands | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fullscreen, Restore commands | ✓ | — |
| Close command | ✓ | ✓ |
| Always on top command | — | ✓ |
| Hide one/all windows on all displays commands | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hide one/all windows on active display, Blacklist commands | ✓ | — |
| Cycling through window sizes on repeated commands of custom shortcuts | ✓ | — |
| Fuzzy search Window with custom trigger shortcuts to apply predefined sizes and/or positions | ✓ | — |
| You own your configs | available for download | — |
| Multi-display support | ✓ | ✓ (in pro version) |
| Modify the layout of several tiled windows by resizing one of them | coming soon | ✓ (in pro version) |
| Window stretching by click on the edge or on the side of a window | — | ✓ |
| Window snapping by making them behave like magnets | — | ✓ |
| Group windows and move them together | — | ✓ (in pro version) |
| Making window transparent and always on top when shaking it | — | ✓ |
| Mouse shortcuts | — | ✓ (in pro version) |
| Multiple profiles for hotkeys setting | coming soon | — |
| Window Switcher | SMBAct | AquaSnap |
|---|---|---|
| Custom trigger shortcuts with almost any key | ✓ | — |
| Switch focus to any window | ✓ | — |
| Fuzzy search of any window or application | ✓ | — |
| Minimize, close, fullscreen any window | ✓ | — |
| Hide, close any application | ✓ | — |
| Close all windows of one application | ✓ | — |
| Blacklist applications you don’t want to act | ✓ | — |
| Multi-display support: activation Window Switcher on active display, main display or where is a mouse pointer | ✓ | — |
| Multi-display support: activation of selected window/application on active display or on display where it was before | ✓ | — |
| Other features | SMBAct | AquaSnap |
|---|---|---|
| Embedded Browser Window (know more about this feature) | ✓ | — |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux | Windows |
| Pricing | $14,99 | Free, $29 (pro) |
| User support | User Tutorial on YouTube | — |
Some remarks about AquaSnap
Both SMBAct and AquaSnap are great window managers. However, the ability AquaSnap to divide the screen into 2 (Halves) or 4 (Quarters) parts (with shortcuts) may be inconvenient and insufficient if you have, for example, a wide monitor.
Besides, the cost of the application is comparatively high - 29$ for 1 license/ 1 computer, while the functionality of the free version is very limited.
