AnyDrag

May 15, 2026 · View on GitHub

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Drags as smoothly as a native title bar — no other modifier-drag tool on macOS matches it.

Move any window by holding a modifier key and dragging anywhere on the window — no need to grab the title bar.

Why AnyDrag?

Tools like BetterTouchTool offer similar modifier+drag features, but they move windows through the Accessibility API — an indirect path that goes through the target app's process, adding noticeable lag. AnyDrag takes a different approach: it simulates a native title bar drag at the window server level, achieving the same smoothness as dragging a title bar by hand.

Install

Homebrew

brew install --cask XueshiQiao/tap/anydrag

Manual

Download the latest .dmg from Releases, open it, and drag AnyDrag to your Applications folder.

The app is signed with an Apple Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple, so you can install it without any security warnings.

On first launch, macOS will ask for Accessibility permission — this is required to detect modifier keys and move windows.

Usage

  1. Launch AnyDrag — it lives in your menu bar

  2. Hold Option (default) and drag any window

  3. Hold the modifier key and double-click a window to maximize it; double-click again to restore its original size

  4. Hold the modifier key and right-click a window to open the tiling panel — quickly snap windows to halves, corners, or arrange multiple windows side by side

    Tiling Panel

  5. Click the menu bar icon to change the modifier key or toggle on/off

If macOS "Hold Option key while dragging windows to tile" is enabled and AnyDrag's modifier is not Option, you can also hold Option as an extra key to use native tiling. For example, with AnyDrag set to fn, fn + option + drag starts a native drag from anywhere in the window and still triggers system tiling.

Supported Modifiers

  • Option
  • Command
  • Control
  • fn
  • Option + Command

Requirements

  • macOS 13+

Build from Source

brew install xcodegen
git clone https://github.com/XueshiQiao/AnyDrag.git
cd AnyDrag
xcodegen generate
open AnyDrag.xcodeproj

Then build and run in Xcode (⌘R).

Known Issues

  • When used together with macOS three-finger drag, there is a one-frame snap flicker at drag-end.

License

GPL-3.0