SMBAct vs Magnet
Are you looking for an all-in-one alternative to Magnet that offers additional features, transparent and predictable behavior in a multi-display environment and improved customer support? If so, SMBAct is the perfect solution for you!
SMBAct provides a convenient way to move, position and resize windows across different operating systems such as Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can use keyboard shortcuts or call up Window Actor to perform a fuzzy search for the desired action. Moreover, SMBAct also allows you to switch focus between windows, activate, hide, close, maximize any of them.
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Comparing SMBAct vs Magnet
Let's see in details why users prefer SMBAct over Magnet.
| Sizing and Positioning | SMBAct | Magnet |
|---|---|---|
| Use Keyboard Shortcuts to snap windows | ✓ | ✓ |
| Halves, Quarters, Thirds commands | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fourths, Sixths, Eights commands | ✓ | — |
| Maximize, Restore, Next/Prev Display commands | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fullscreen, Smaller, Larger, Center 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 | — |
| Predictable behaviour in multi-display environment | ✓ | — |
| Multiple profiles for hotkeys setting | coming soon | — |
| Snap window by dragging (build-in function in Win10) | coming soon for macOS and Linux | ✓ |
| Window Switcher | SMBAct | Magnet |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Magnet |
|---|---|---|
| Embedded Browser Window (know more about this feature) | ✓ | — |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux | macOS |
| Pricing | €14,99 | €9.99 |
| User support | User Tutorial on YouTube | — |
Responsive customer support
The number one reason why people love SMBAct is our customer service.
We provide full User Tutorial on YouTube about using SMBAct Window Manager and Window Switcher. If after watching you still have questions, or you’ve found something that works wrong, or you know how we could improve SMBAct please contact us.
