Hoverboard is an intuitive window manager for Mac. With Hoverboard, you only need to learn 1 shortcut to rearrange your windows in any 2d grid. What makes it different from countless window managers already available is that Hoverboard is free, open source and much more intuitive (as shown by empirical alt-research conducted and peer-reviewed by myself).
If you want to know more about the process of creating this app, consider reading my blogpost.
Download the
latest release from
Github. Open it. When it asks to move to your /Applications folder, confirm.
Hoverboard can only update if it's in /Applications (but it will still ask for
confirmation of course). That's it.
Hoverboard comes with a brief tour that guides you through the features that it provides. Still, here is a short summary:
- Quickly press and release any of the two
cmdkeys on your keyboard (adjacent to your space bar). - Move your windows with your arrow keys. By default it starts with a 1x1 grid. As soon as you press one of the arrow keys, it expands in that direction and resizes the window to half of your grid.
- Use
shiftif you want to resize a window to twice the size of a row or column.
I am planning to continue the development of Hoverboard. If you spot a bug and know how to fix it, please feel free to send me a pull request! If you don't know how to fix it, send me an email and I'll look into it. In general, I am a bit cautious to add new features (read more).
- Cocoapods to install the dependencies below.
- HockeyApp for crash report collection and statistics.
- LetsMove to prompt the user to move Hoverboard to the Applications folder (this is necessary for installing updates automatically after user confirmation).
- Sparkle is used for updating the app.
Furthermore, it uses some of my own frameworks:
- ElsloooKit is proprietary and only used for the About window. Replace it by Apple's default about window if you decide to fork this project.
- OnboardKit is used for the Getting Started tour. It's developed with Hoverboard in mind and may be a bit oriented very much towards Hoverboard but it should be possible to decouple it.
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