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Flexiglass
Flexiglass
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Flexiglass free download for Mac

Flexiglass

Version 1.7.1

Window manager.

3.6
Based on 34 user ratesRead reviews & comments
$9.99
Absolutely Free
Application is not under development & not supported.

Flexiglass overview

Flexiglass enables some of the missing features in OS X window management and offers an extremely convenient way to move, resize, maximize, and close windows on a Mac with a mouse, trackpad and keyboard.

  • Move and Resize: Usually, when you want to move or resize a window on a Mac you are limited by its title bar or lower-right corner. Flexiglass enables more comfortable window management. To quickly move or resize the active window just place the mouse cursor over it, press definable key and start dragging windows with left or right mouse button.
  • Quick Layouts: If you used to work with more than one window at a time Flexiglass will help you to arrange windows on your screen any way you like. Just move a window to the right, left or top, and it will automatically resize and move itself to fill the half of the screen or full screen.
  • Quick Layout Shortcuts: User-defined shortcuts allow users to move windows to the right, left, top and bottom halves of the screen or to maximize them to full screen and back to original size.
  • Multitouch Trackpad and Mouse: You can use finger gestures on your macbook trackpad or Magic trackpad to move and resize. Flexiglass is able to save different settings for a trackpad and a mouse and automatically change them when you plug or unplug devices.
  • Double-click to Zoom: Double-click on window title bar is the easiest way to expand it to full screen.
  • Real Zoom and Real Close: You can change the default behavior of standard Mac OS X buttons. Right-click on the green Zoom button will maximize a window to full screen. Right-click on Close window button will quit the whole application.

What’s new in version 1.7.1

Updated on Feb 27 2019

Version 1.7.1:
  • Fix for Quick Layouts in Chrome

Information

License

Shareware

Size

2.5 MB

Downloads

16465

App requirements

  • Intel 64
  • OS X 10.9 or later
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Tachy0n
Tachy0n
Jun 7 2022
1.7.1
0.0
Jun 7 2022
0.0
Version: 1.7.1
Link is dead, presumably because Nulana was bought by Acronis. I doubt they are interested in having this mac utility as part of their suite so it might be gone for good.
Aargl
Aargl
Jul 4 2021
1.7.1
0.0
Jul 4 2021
0.0
Version: 1.7.1
"Unfortunately, Flexiglass has been discontinued", as they say on the website. :-( For me it is/was the best windows management tool ever, after trying BetterSnapTool, Cinch, Divvy, Moom, Rectangle, Windownaut and probably some other! It works perfectly here on 10.11 and hopefully on 10.14, never had a crash of any kind.
connocmindspin
connocmindspin
Aug 27 2020
1.7.1
1.0
Aug 27 2020
1.0
Version: 1.7.1
Constantly crashes. I really love the app as it makes all the snap to top/side "windows" features just work. Unfortunately, this always crashes. Often needing to force kill and restart the app multiple times a day. It's pretty worthless without actually being able to run.
Neal
Neal
Apr 6 2020
1.7.1
0.0
Apr 6 2020
0.0
Version: 1.7.1
I appreciate "Input Monitoring" is a new Security & Privacy category. But what, precisely, does Flexiglass do with the data input it "monitors" (= captures...?). All keystrokes in ANY app...that's the nightmare stuff of Keystroke Logging Apps formerly and widely regarded as Malware I have never ever seen an app request or require let alone granted this degree of "Privacy" invasion. I believe a fuller account of what Flexiglass monitors and how it is securely flushed from VM, RAM without hours and hours of "monitored input" being compressed to a few Kb's and sent to an insecure server in a nanosecond?
Memphisbird
Memphisbird
Jun 22 2017
1.6.1
5.0
Jun 22 2017
5.0
Version: 1.6.1
I have been a longtime user of Zooom, but it doesn’t work with some apps any longer (Opera browser, for one), and it’s no longer being supported. ​There are a number of window organizers available for Mac, but I don't want to just move my window to a corner or to the top or to the bottom. I want the complete flexibility of using a key or keys and moving my mouse over the window to resize or move, just like I could do in Zooom. Flexiglass does exactly that. It does more than that, actually, but that was the selling point for me. I downloaded the demo from their website (yes, a demo, almost unheard of anymore) in the morning and bought the app in the evening. I didn't need the 15-day demo period to know I was going to buy it. It works perfectly with all the apps I use every day and all the browsers I use. I did have a problem with the app not accepting my license key, though, and I sent an email to the support address. I got a response in NINE MINUTES! Good to go!
Scott-C-H-
Scott-C-H-
Jan 29 2017
1.6.1
0.0
Jan 29 2017
0.0
Version: 1.6.1
Here goes another "system enhancement utility" gone abandonware, just like TotalFinder, TotalSpace, Zooom2, Optimal Layout, FinderPop, to name a few. Looking at their blog, Remotix is the only app they care about at this point. I’ve paid for a lot of Mac utility software like this only to end up seeing them become an abandonware. This is why I have decided to never pay for and install “system enhancement utilities" like this on my Mac. It is a matter of time before the developer finds it either impossible or not worth the trouble to maintain it. Apple updates the OS, and this type of utility is almost guaranteed to break in some way. It is more challenging and tricky to fix because this kind of utilities needs to address far more variables than a typical stand alone application minding its own business within its boundary. Here is how it always turns out; You buy a piece of software like this thinking you can miraculously improve the user experiences. Then, you start spending more time tinkering and troubleshooting as you use it more. Soon, you become a volunteer beta tester for the developer while you also become unnecessarily attached to its novel, optional functionality. After a while, you stop seeing updates and bug fixes, and then you painfully realize that the developers of the utility abandoned it for one reason or another. You will be left with a lot of frustration as a result of your novel setup ripped apart only because some developers no longer felt like doing anything with it. I'm sick and tired of this classic pattern with indie developers and wasting my time and money in the process. I found that, in the long run, these “system enhancements” added more complexity, frustration and “needs” to tinker with, and that just one troubleshooting session would erase any little bits of time I might have saved by using this type of utility. I found that I was much better off just making good use of all the default features on my Mac and eliminate the “needs” to use this type of “enhancement” all together. Any small gains in user experience are not worth the massive trade-off of depending on this type of utilities.
Paganel
Paganel
Dec 13 2016
1.6.1
0.5
Dec 13 2016
0.5
Version: 1.6.1
constantly falling
julia555sara
julia555sara
Apr 27 2016
1.6.1
5.0
Apr 27 2016
5.0
Version: 1.6.1
Like Flexiglass because it allowed me to personalize my keyboard. It's very convenient for me as I use my mac for work a lot, so the app just helped me to save my time. By the way, my friends also like it^^
TheBloke
TheBloke
Nov 28 2015
1.6.1
2.0
Nov 28 2015
2.0
Version: 1.6.1
I used this for a couple of years at my last company, and I liked it because it was the only app I knew of that let me add actions to the window title buttons (red/yellow/green) - like maximise/close app. I've now come back to using Mac and installed Flexiglass trial, expecting to purchase it for myself. But then I discovered BetterSnapTool, which does more than Flexiglass for 1/5 the price ($1.99) I'm afraid that Flexiglass is completely eclipsed by BetterSnaptool, which has literally every feature that Flexiglass has as well as many more, at a much lower price. There's simply no reason to buy Flexiglass right now with its current feature set. Also, I must say I find Flexiglass' constant Trial reminders to be highly annoying. I know I'm on a trial, you don't need to remind me randomly several times a day, popping up a window distracting me from what I am doing! If you insist on trial reminders, at least make them Notifications so I don't get new windows stealing focus all the time. I do feel bad saying an app is completely pointless, so here are some suggestions for things Flexiglass could add that would make it worth considering in future: 1. Multiple window tiling: the ability to select two or more windows, and have them tiled on screen, either horizontal or vertical. Eg two or three windows = halves/thirds; four windows = quarters in each corner, etc. Ideally, with automatic re-size - if I resize one window, the other window(s) dynamically resizes as well (like Windows 10 has.) 2. Snapped-together windows ('magnetic'): join two or more windows, such that when I move window A, window B is moved together with it.
ylluminate
ylluminate
Feb 3 2015
1.6
0.0
Feb 3 2015
0.0
Version: 1.6
To be fair, I'd like to make a remark before I rate this. This app is probably the cleanest / easiest app of its type at the moment. I quite like it when compared to Moom and such (Moom is really neat, but disappointingly overly complicated in a couple areas). One thing I would very much like to see, for us multi-monitor / head users with large displays is a grid system to allow easier control over areas of the screen. Such a large granularity adjustment for 27 and 30 inch monitors leaves much to be desired. I frequently have an additional column or row in the mix aside from the traditional four quadrants.
Iliketrash
Iliketrash
Feb 19 2014
1.5.4
5.0
Feb 19 2014
5.0
Version: 1.5.4
See my comments below. This is one of those can't-do-without programs. It quicky becomes second nature and resizing and moving windows the "old" way is just too much work. Nice job.
TheSocalEskimo
TheSocalEskimo
Nov 26 2012
1.5.2
1.0
Nov 26 2012
1.0
Version: 1.5.2
I love this product, I really do. Absolutely superb features, ease of use, customizing options. But this product seemed like it was causing a lot of problems. The biggest thing was that it would not let my mac mini restart. It would go to the white screen as with the loading circle to shut down but never get any further than that till I would have to hard shut down my computer. Another thing that it would affect would be that sometimes I could not open my preferences pane accept by restarting(hard shut down) of my computer. And I don't know if it's related to flexi glass but now some of my usb ports on my computer are not even working even though I uninstalled flexi glass... Not happy here. I really really really want this to work, I used to use mondo mouse till I upgraded to Mountain Lion as it was not supported, and had to find alternatives like flexiglass. Still looking for one. I really really want to like this product and would, but it just causes too many serious problems. Also if anyone was wondering. Even though I upgraded to mountain lion, I have not had any of these problems after Mountain lion upgrade until installing flexiglass. Uninstalling flexiglass has fixed all the problems accept for my usb ports which makes me believe that that was not caused by it, but everything else without a doubt was. I deeply regret not being able to recommend this product and because of these problems I can't give the value or overall rating anything but the lowest score since it is not worth the consequences. I hope that you guys can fix some of these issues in the future.
Mark-Lee
Mark-Lee
Jul 1 2012
1.5.2
0.0
Jul 1 2012
0.0
Version: 1.5.2
I have everything turned off in the app (move, resize, layouts), but whenever I move my mouse cursor, the app spikes to 3% of CPU usage. Whaaaa?
Iliketrash
Iliketrash
Mar 27 2012
1.5.2
5.0
Mar 27 2012
5.0
Version: 1.5.2
Still waiting for a fix for the bug where this program misinterprets trackpad readings during window drags, making the window move much faster than expected. Otherwise, this program is potentially the most efficient with regard to CPU and RAM usage of its competitors. The best of the breed was Zooom2 but it doesn't work correctly when resizing windows on Lion.
Revco
Revco
Feb 28 2012
1.5.2
0.0
Feb 28 2012
0.0
Version: 1.5.2
Not Shareware. App Store only. $7.99 US = $7.42 AUD. On the Australian App Store for $8.49 AUD. Nice software but I really don't like the App Store.
Trashie
Trashie
Jan 16 2012
1.5.1
0.0
Jan 16 2012
0.0
Version: 1.5.1
Good app does some nice missing features but the memory use of this app seems to be very high....
Vyselegend
Vyselegend
Dec 15 2011
1.5.1
0.0
Dec 15 2011
0.0
Version: 1.5.1
Your app is very functional, useful, practical, and helpful. Unlike the eye candy confusing mess that mostly is the app Moom.
Nerdnase
Nerdnase
Dec 8 2011
1.5.1
4.0
Dec 8 2011
4.0
Version: 1.5.1
I use it every day and especially like the features for two screen setups. Works well. (I have to turn it off when using Photoshop because it interferes with cloning key shortcut).
Surfspirit
Surfspirit
Aug 29 2011
1.3.1
4.0
Aug 29 2011
4.0
Version: 1.3.1
Too much CPU and RAM!!!
enigma2k
enigma2k
Aug 14 2011
1.3
3.0
Aug 14 2011
3.0
Version: 1.3
I really like the app but it suffers from stability issues under Lion and I would really love to have the option to bring windows to the front while moving/resizing like it is possible with Zooom2. I really don't get why such a basic feature is not already implemented...
firewall00110
firewall00110
Sep 19 2021
1.7.1
1.0
Sep 19 2021
1.0
Version: 1.7.1
connocmindspin
connocmindspin
Aug 27 2020
1.0
Aug 27 2020
1.0
Version: null
Memphisbird
Memphisbird
Jun 22 2017
5.0
Jun 22 2017
5.0
Version: null
Paganel
Paganel
Dec 13 2016
0.5
Dec 13 2016
0.5
Version: null
julia555sara
julia555sara
Apr 27 2016
5.0
Apr 27 2016
5.0
Version: null
TheBloke
TheBloke
Nov 28 2015
2.0
Nov 28 2015
2.0
Version: null
movibe
movibe
Nov 18 2015
4.0
Nov 18 2015
4.0
Version: null
Iliketrash
Iliketrash
Feb 19 2014
5.0
Feb 19 2014
5.0
Version: null
Andrew8042
Andrew8042
Sep 27 2013
3.0
Sep 27 2013
3.0
Version: null
jmu
jmu
Dec 9 2012
5.0
Dec 9 2012
5.0
Version: null
TheSocalEskimo
TheSocalEskimo
Nov 26 2012
1.0
Nov 26 2012
1.0
Version: null
Alessandro-R-
Alessandro-R-
Jul 6 2012
2.5
Jul 6 2012
2.5
Version: null
Cjbolland
Cjbolland
Mar 17 2012
5.0
Mar 17 2012
5.0
Version: null
Nulana
Nulana
Feb 28 2012
5.0
Feb 28 2012
5.0
Version: null
KingGorilla
KingGorilla
Feb 23 2012
4.0
Feb 23 2012
4.0
Version: null
Nerdnase
Nerdnase
Dec 8 2011
4.0
Dec 8 2011
4.0
Version: null
Surfspirit
Surfspirit
Aug 29 2011
4.0
Aug 29 2011
4.0
Version: null
enigma2k
enigma2k
Aug 14 2011
3.0
Aug 14 2011
3.0
Version: null
anonymous-dragonfly-1924
Jul 27 2011
4.0
Version: null
Stig77
Stig77
Jul 8 2011
5.0
Jul 8 2011
5.0
Version: null
yugenro-1
yugenro-1
Jul 5 2011
5.0
Jul 5 2011
5.0
Version: null
Ronl
Ronl
Jul 4 2011
0.5
Jul 4 2011
0.5
Version: null
Magosilvan
Magosilvan
Jun 2 2011
4.5
Jun 2 2011
4.5
Version: null
Screentom
Screentom
Jun 2 2011
4.5
Jun 2 2011
4.5
Version: null
Javermejo
Javermejo
Jun 2 2011
2.5
Jun 2 2011
2.5
Version: null
Randy-Crawford
Randy-Crawford
May 23 2011
3.5
May 23 2011
3.5
Version: null
Jeff-Wholeman
Jeff-Wholeman
May 21 2011
5.0
May 21 2011
5.0
Version: null
Dedalus271
Dedalus271
May 6 2011
4.5
May 6 2011
4.5
Version: null
Lenny-S
Lenny-S
May 6 2011
5.0
May 6 2011
5.0
Version: null
Ramito
Ramito
Apr 28 2011
4.5
Apr 28 2011
4.5
Version: null
ibgreen
ibgreen
Apr 23 2011
5.0
Apr 23 2011
5.0
Version: null
jrietz
jrietz
Apr 11 2011
2.0
Apr 11 2011
2.0
Version: null
João-Paulo-Pacheco
João-Paulo-Pacheco
Apr 8 2011
5.0
Apr 8 2011
5.0
Version: null
Phiddlestyx
Phiddlestyx
Apr 4 2011
2.5
Apr 4 2011
2.5
Version: null
$9.99
Absolutely Free
Application is not under development & not supported.

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