macOS 15 and later · $5 · Unlimited devices

Park any window on the edge of your screen.

Drag a window to the left, right, or bottom edge and it folds into a small tab. Click the tab and the window slides back. Mac OS 9 had this. Your Mac can have it again.

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Drag a window to the right, left, or bottom edge and let go.

Notes

iCloud

Notes

Groceries

Ideas

Three gestures. No new habits.

Sticky Windows rides on the drag you already make. There is nothing to learn and nothing to remember.

Park

Drag a window until the cursor rests against a screen edge. After a quarter second, a strip shows where the tab will land. Let go.

Reveal

Click the tab. The window slides out to exactly where it was and takes focus. Click again, or just look away in Peek mode, and it slides back.

Release

Pull a tab away from the edge, or drag the revealed window off, and it becomes an ordinary window again. Nothing is ever lost.

Small tabs. A lot of room.

Everything Sticky Windows does serves one idea: your windows should be one click away, and out of the way until then.

Pop-out or Peek

Pop-out windows stay until you tuck them. Peek windows duck back when you switch apps or move the cursor away. Choose per tab, or set a default.

Hover previews

Rest on a tab to see the window behind it. With Screen Recording access the preview is live, so you can watch a download or a playing track without revealing anything.

Tab groups

Drop a window onto an existing tab to stack them. The group tab shows the apps inside and a count; click it for a list and pick the one you want.

Badges on tabs

Unread counts from the Dock show on the tab, so a parked Mail or Messages window still tells you when something arrived.

Rules per app

Keep some apps from parking at all, park others the moment they open, and teach apps like Mail to show their main window when you click them in the Dock.

Keyboard first, if you like

Park the frontmost window with ⌃⌥⌘→, ⌃⌥⌘←, or ⌃⌥⌘↓. Every shortcut can be changed.

Every display, every Space

Tabs live on the edges of any display and follow you across Spaces. They step aside while a full-screen app is in front.

Remembers your layout

Quit, restart, or log back in: the windows you parked come back as tabs, on the same edges, in the same order.

macOS 15

Plays well with edge tiling

Sequoia also tiles windows dragged to the sides. Sticky Windows can take over the left and right edges while it runs and hands the setting back when it quits.

1997

Pop-up windows, from Mac OS 8.

Mac OS 8 let you drag a Finder window to the bottom of the screen, where it became a tab. Click the tab and the window popped up; click anywhere else and it dropped back down. People who used it never stopped missing it.

Sticky Windows brings the idea to the Mac of today: any app, any edge, and animations that respect Reduce Motion. The window on the right is drawn the way it looked in 1997.

Macintosh HD

Applications

Documents

System Folder

Macintosh HDProjectsTrash

It asks for exactly what it needs.

Required

Accessibility

This is how Sticky Windows moves, hides, and restores windows that belong to other apps. First launch walks you through granting it.

Optional

Screen Recording

Only used for live hover previews. Without it, Sticky Windows still works fully; previews show the app icon and window title instead.

Privacy

Nothing phones home

Sticky Windows has no account, no analytics, and no network use apart from checking for updates. Your window layout is saved in a plain file in Application Support.

Make your windows stick.

$5Unlimited devices. Every Mac you own.

A menu-bar app with no Dock icon, notarized by Apple.

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macOS 15 Sequoia or later Apple silicon and Intel Notarized Unlimited devices