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Universal Display Magnet: Snap your displaysand they stay put

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macOS shuffles your displays

Wake the Mac or plug in a dock, and the monitors land somewhere new, with every window piled onto one screen.

The magnet puts them back

Each set of monitors keeps its arrangement, and it comes back the moment they reconnect, wake or get moved. Even two identical monitors are told apart.

Every window goes home

Window positions are saved every few minutes and as the screens go to sleep, so each window returns to its monitor and Desktop.

Drag a display and it snaps flush

Displays snap edge to edge and line up their edges and centers. Place one with the arrows, type an exact position, then Apply. If anything looks wrong, it reverts by itself after 15 seconds.

  • One click

    Snap Displays Together pulls every display flush. No gaps, no overlaps.

  • Remembered

    Saved for each set of monitors and re-applied on reconnect and wake.

  • No built-in display needed

    Mac Studio, Mac mini or a MacBook with its lid closed.

Two Macs, one desk

Both Macs' displays on one canvas, exactly where Universal Control has them. Drag the other Mac's screens and they snap flush across both Macs, applied live, with an undo.

Any window, one keystroke

Halves, quarters, maximize, center and the next display, on shortcuts you can change. Or drag a window to an edge or a corner and watch the preview.

Save your desk, restore it in a click

A workspace saves every app's windows: which monitor, which Desktop or full-screen Space, and where. Restore it with a click or its shortcut, and apps that aren't open launch by themselves.

Thought through, down to the menu bar

Your Macs, in sync

Arrangements and workspaces travel straight between your Macs over Wi-Fi, Ethernet or a Thunderbolt cable. Encrypted, no cloud, nothing to pair.

Wake one, wake both

Wake or unlock this Mac and the other Mac's screens turn on too, even from deep sleep.

When Universal Control acts up

Activity explains dropouts and lost input in plain words. Reset Universal Control fixes it on both Macs in one click.

One click away

Snap buttons, Save Workspace and every workspace, one click away in the menu bar and the Dock menu.

A shortcut for everything

Give every snap and every workspace its own shortcut. Clashes with other apps are flagged.

All shortcuts

Speaks your language

In 18 languages. It follows your Mac, or pick one in Settings.

Up and running in a minute

Your setup stays yours

  • No account

    Nothing to sign up for. Open the app and it works.

  • No cloud

    Your Macs talk to each other directly on your network, encrypted with a key only the two of them share.

  • No analytics

    No tracking and no usage statistics. Nothing is captured from your screen.

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Questions, answered

Which Macs does it run on?
Any Mac with macOS 14 or later. One download runs natively on Apple silicon and Intel.
Why do my displays keep moving around?
macOS rebuilds the arrangement when displays wake or reconnect, and often gets it wrong, especially with identical monitors or a dock. Universal Display Magnet remembers your arrangement for each set of monitors, tells identical monitors apart by their serial numbers, and puts it back whenever macOS moves things.
Do I need two Macs?
No. Display arrangement, workspaces and window snapping all work on one Mac. With a second Mac linked through Universal Control, you can also arrange both Macs' displays together and keep everything in sync.
What permissions does it ask for?
Device Control and Data Access (called Accessibility on older versions of macOS) to see and move windows, and Local Network to sync with your other Mac. It never asks to record your screen.
Does it work with Magnet installed?
Yes, but two apps can't own the same shortcut. Universal Display Magnet flags any shortcut another app already uses, so you can quit the other app or pick a different shortcut.
Does it work without a built-in display?
Yes. Mac Studio, Mac mini and MacBooks in clamshell mode are fully supported.
Does anything leave my Mac?
Only two things: sync with your own Macs, directly and encrypted, and a daily check for new versions on GitHub, which you can turn off in Settings.

Snap your desk into place

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macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel