Description
Plug in an external monitor and every window piles onto one screen; unplug for a meeting, plug back in, and you are dragging and resizing them one by one again. Realign is a small macOS menu bar utility that saves your arranged layout and puts everything back with one shortcut.
It sits in the same family as Rectangle and Magnet but skips snapping. It only saves a whole desktop and restores it: one layout for the laptop alone and one for each set of external monitors, applied automatically when displays change if you want.
Save and restore: ⌃⌥⌘S saves the current layout and ⌃⌥⌘R restores it; saving again overwrites the layout for the current display setup.
Auto-restore on display change: Restores the layout when you plug in or unplug a monitor. Off by default.
Pick a layout: Restore the laptop or multi-display layout from the menu regardless of what is connected, and choose what the shortcut restores.
Install: macOS 14 or later, via Homebrew or by dragging the release into Applications; it asks for Accessibility access on first launch to move windows. MIT licensed.
It sits in the same family as Rectangle and Magnet but skips snapping. It only saves a whole desktop and restores it: one layout for the laptop alone and one for each set of external monitors, applied automatically when displays change if you want.
Features
Save and restore: ⌃⌥⌘S saves the current layout and ⌃⌥⌘R restores it; saving again overwrites the layout for the current display setup.
Auto-restore on display change: Restores the layout when you plug in or unplug a monitor. Off by default.
Pick a layout: Restore the laptop or multi-display layout from the menu regardless of what is connected, and choose what the shortcut restores.
Install: macOS 14 or later, via Homebrew or by dragging the release into Applications; it asks for Accessibility access on first launch to move windows. MIT licensed.
