BetterSnapTool
The facts below are what the maker publishes about BetterSnapTool, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From BetterSnapTool's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| BetterSnapTool | — | Mac app · price shown in Mac App Store |
The facts
Each one read from BetterSnapTool's own pages, with the date it was checked.
The company
- Company
- The maker is folivora.AI GmbH, based in Unterhaching, Germany, and its about page says Andreas Hegenberg has developed for iOS and macOS since 2009.checked 5 Oct 2026
What it does
- Compatibility limit
- The app works with almost every application, but some apps with non-standard windows are unsupported.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Custom snap areas
- Users can create custom snap areas anywhere on a display to move and resize windows to chosen positions.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Data collection
- Apple’s App Store listing reports that diagnostics may be collected for app functionality and are not linked to the user; Apple says this developer-provided information is unverified.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Distribution
- The maker says BetterSnapTool is currently available only via the Mac App Store.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Founder
- Andreas Hegenberg says he has been fully self-employed and founder and CEO of folivora.ai GmbH since February 2018.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Input controls
- Features include customizable keyboard shortcuts and moving or resizing windows while holding modifier keys.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Multi-monitor support
- The app supports multiple monitors.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The maker says BetterSnapTool may check a text file on its server for important service messages, temporarily logging the requester’s IP address and macOS version; logs are deleted after four weeks.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- BetterSnapTool manages window positions and sizes by snapping windows to screen edges and corners or to custom snap areas.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Window buttons
- Users can customize what happens when double-clicking a title bar or right-clicking the red, orange, or green window buttons.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Window layouts
- It can maximize windows, place them side by side, and resize them to quarters of the screen.checked 5 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platform
- BetterSnapTool is available only for Mac; the App Store lists macOS 10.12 or later as required.checked 5 Oct 2026
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