SMBAct vs Contexts
Looking for additional features, responsive customer support that won’t leave you hanging, and the ability to use the application on operating systems other than macOS? Look no further than SMBAct – the all-in-one solution for replacing Contexts!
SMBAct enables you to easily switch focus between windows, activate, hide, close, or maximize any window. Additionally, SMBAct tiling manager allows you to move and resize windows on macOS (Windows and Linux versions coming soon) using keyboard shortcuts or the Window Actor, which enables fuzzy searching of desired actions.
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Comparing SMBAct vs Contexts
Read on for our in-depth SMBAct vs. Contexts comparison.
| Window Switcher | SMBAct | Contexts |
|---|---|---|
| Custom trigger shortcuts with almost any key | ✓ | — |
| Switch focus to any window | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fuzzy search of any window or application | ✓ | ✓ |
| Minimize, close, hide any window | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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 of Switcher Window | on active display, main display or where is a mouse pointer | simultaneously on all displays by default |
| Multi-display support: activation of selected window/application | on active display or on display where it was before | on display where it was before |
| Filter by space | — | ✓ |
| Have Multiple Switchers | — | ✓ |
| Sizing and Positioning | SMBAct | Contexts |
|---|---|---|
| Use Keyboard Shortcuts to snap windows | ✓ | — |
| Halves, Quarters, Thirds, Fourths, Sixths commands | ✓ | — |
| Eights commands | ✓ | — |
| Fullscreen, Maximize, Smaller, Larger, Center, Restore, Next/Prev Display commands | ✓ | — |
| Hide one/all windows on active/all displays, Blacklist commands | ✓ | — |
| Portrait display layouts | ✓ | — |
| Cycling through window sizes on repeated commands of custom shortcuts | ✓ | — |
| Fuzzy search Window with custom trigger shortcuts to apply predefined sizes and/or positions | ✓ | — |
| Multiple profiles for hotkeys setting | coming soon | — |
| Other features | SMBAct | Contexts |
|---|---|---|
| Operating system | macOS (now); Windows, Linux (coming soon) | macOS |
| Pricing | €14.99 | €9.99 |
| User support | User Tutorial on YouTube | — |
More about SMBAct advantages
Contexts is a good tool, but its functionality is limited only by the Window Switcher.
SMBAct, on the other hand, provides many more features:
- full Window Management, including positioning and resizing windows.
- and of course, multiplatform. SMBAct is built to work the same way on Windows, macOS, and Linux, so you don’t have to change your habits every time (macOS available now, Windows and Linux coming soon).
