I purposely keep Rectangle really slim on features. Rectangle has all but a handful obscure pieces of functionality in Spectacle, and is as close as you’re going to get to a drop-in replacement. I don’t see the author of Spectacle letting go, but why take the risk if you don’t have to? Features Among other things, an app with accessibility privileges has the potential to log keystrokes.Īgain, the odds of coming across a malware version of Spectacle are probably always going to be pretty slim. In order for a window manager app to work on macOS, you need to give that app accessibility privileges. It is not likely that you’re going to go download a malware infested version of Spectacle from an unofficial source, but if somehow you did end up with one then there is a lot of damage that could be done. You can argue that notarization is merely a false sense of security, but from my perspective it is a valid guarantee that the app you’re getting is the one that I’ve notarized with my developer id and without malware as long as you get it from the GitHub repo ( downloads also point to GitHub).
Spectacle stopped being maintained before Apple started enforcing app notarization. Even if someone else took up the torch and released and hosted a universal binary of Spectacle, the odds of bugs getting fixed in Rectangle are higher since it’s written in Swift. Currently the only way to get Spectacle running on Apple Silicon is to compile the app yourself.
Apple SiliconĪs of v0.38, Rectangle is available as a universal binary that runs on both Intel and Apple Silicon. If Spectacle does it for you, that’s awesome - it’s a great app, but there are some concrete reasons to go with Rectangle, even outside of a direct feature comparison. Rectangle is increasingly mentioned (thanks!), but I still see Spectacle users that say they have no reason to switch.
#SPECTACLE FOR MAC INSTALL#
In every single post I’ve seen where someone asks which apps they should install on their new mac, one of the first suggestions is a window manager.
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