SwiftShift.app [](https://GitHub.com/pablopunk/swiftshift/releases/)
May 13, 2026 · View on GitHub
Sweet window management for macOS
https://github.com/pablopunk/SwiftShift/assets/4324982/8f0566b9-d18e-462e-8d74-52bcf6c95f52
Installation
There are several ways:
- 💰 Buy it at swiftshift.app (pay what you want)
- 🍺 Install it with homebrew
brew install --cask swift-shift - ⬇️ Download the latest release on Github
- 🚀 Clone it and build it yourself
Features
- Launch at login
- Hide menubar icon
- Focus on window
- Smart resizing with quadrants
- Ignore custom apps
Quadrants
https://github.com/pablopunk/SwiftShift/assets/4324982/5aac5bab-ad87-43c1-b2fe-fd55077f56f6
Contributing
You can either use Xcode (be careful with signing) or build it directly from the command line:
Build and run from the command line
make run
Website
The marketing site lives in www/ and is deployed by Vercel with Root Directory set to www.
cd www
bun install
bun run dev
Accessibility permissions running locally
Local Debug builds use a separate app identity (Swift Shift Dev / com.pablopunk.Swift-Shift.dev), so they can coexist with the released app without reusing the same Accessibility permission entry.
I'm open to PRs and requests. If you are looking for something to do, take a look at the issues marked as help wanted.
Release
One-time setup: store notarization credentials in your keychain:
- Generate an app-specific password at appleid.apple.com (Sign-In and Security → App-Specific Passwords)
- Run:
xcrun notarytool store-credentials "SwiftShift" --apple-id YOUR_APPLE_ID --team-id YOUR_TEAM_ID
It will prompt you to paste the app-specific password.
Then release with a single command:
make release VERSION=0.28.0
This will: bump the version, archive, export, notarize, staple, generate the appcast, create a branch/commit/tag, open a PR with auto-merge, create a GitHub release with the zip attached, and update the Homebrew cask automatically.
If GH_PAT is available in the environment, the release script will use it to push the Homebrew tap update to pablopunk/homebrew-brew.
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License
MIT License