SMBAct vs Rectangle
Upgrade your app experience now with SMBAct - the ultimate Rectangle alternative with expanded features, unmatched support, and cross-platform compatibility.
With SMBAct, you can move and resize in Windows, macOS and Linux using keyboard shortcuts or calling Window Actor where you can perform fuzzy search of needed action. SMBAct also allows switch focus between windows, activate, hide, close, maximize any of them.
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Comparing SMBAct vs Rectangle
Let's see in details why users prefer SMBAct over Rectangle.
| Sizing and Positioning | SMBAct | Rectangle |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ✓ | ✓ (in pro version) |
| Fuzzy search Window with custom trigger shortcuts to apply predefined sizes and/or positions | ✓ | — |
| You own your configs | available for download | iCloud Sync |
| 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 | Rectangle |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Rectangle |
|---|---|---|
| Embedded Browser Window (know more about this feature) | ✓ | — |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux | macOS |
| Pricing | €14,99 | Free, €9.99 (pro) |
| User support | User Tutorial on YouTube | — |
Multi-display support
Rectangle is a great and UX friendly window manager, but according to user reviews, if you have more than one display you start having problems.
For example, the size of the second screen is calculated incorrectly and the windows are moved and positioned incorrectly.
SMBAct supports a multi-display environment with additional features, e.g:
- Hide all windows only on active display or on all screens
- Open Switcher Window on display where is mouse pointer at this moment
- Using Switcher Window activate any window on the active or main display
- Save window position after moving between displays
