SMBAct vs Divvy
Do you prefer to manage windows with keyboard shortcuts without a mouse? Do you appreciate quality support and want more features for your money? Then SMBAct is the right product for you.
SMBAct is not only a feature-rich window manager with many predefined window sizes and positions, with transparent multi-display behavior, but also a window switcher.
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Comparing SMBAct vs Divvy
See why users prefer using SMBAct as an alternative.
| Sizing and Positioning | SMBAct | Divvy |
|---|---|---|
| Create custom shortcuts to snap windows | ✓ | ✓ |
| Get windows exactly where you want them (including Maximize) | about 45 predefined positions | the screen is grid-divided, choose needed position/size with a mouse |
| Fullscreen, 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 | ✓ | — |
| You own your configs | available for download | — |
| Multiple profiles for hotkeys setting | coming soon | — |
| Snap window by dragging (build-in function in Win10) | coming soon in macOS and Linux | — |
| Window Switcher | SMBAct | Divvy |
|---|---|---|
| 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 of 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 | Divvy |
|---|---|---|
| Embedded Browser Window (know more about this feature) | ✓ | — |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux | Windows, macOS X |
| Pricing | €14,99 | €13.99 |
| User support | User Tutorial on YouTube | — |
A little more about the fundamental difference…
Both SMBAct and Divvy are excellent window managers with different approaches to the problem.
The way of managing the workspace offered by Divvy is quite original, but it is aimed at users who prefer the mouse to the keyboard. Despite the possibility to set custom hotkeys for any position, it is nevertheless quite difficult to remember all of them. And if some positions are used only occasionally, it will eventually boil down to calling up the window with a “grid” screen again, and selecting the desired position of the window with the mouse.
SMBAct, on the other hand, allows you to quickly call the Window Actor with a fuzzy search, where you can find the desired position or size without using the mouse.
