BetterStage for Mac
Native macOS workspace and window manager with stages across monitors, per-monitor layouts, Tabbed Layouts, Bento Box tiling, and review-first AI Staging.
$19.99
In English
Version 1.2.0When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
BetterStage overview
BetterStage is a native macOS workspace and window manager for people who switch between projects, windows, and monitors all day. A stage is a workspace that spans every display, so switching stages changes the whole Mac setup together without macOS Spaces animation.
Current features include per-monitor Window Modes, Bento Box auto-tiling with reversible Fill, Tabbed Layouts with pane zoom/restore, AI Staging with recipe/review/refine/apply flow, Snap Wheel and snap zones, keyboard shortcuts, Pinned Displays, layout presets, and window rules. BetterStage requires macOS 14+ and Accessibility permission for window management.
What's new in version 1.2.0
- New: Introducing BetterStage AI — the no-setup way to use AI Staging. Describe your workspace in plain English and it arranges your apps across every monitor for you, with no API key to bring or configure. It's an optional subscription; you can still connect your own AI provider on any Pro license.
- New: In Tabbed Layout you can now zoom a single pane to fill the whole screen, then restore your full layout in one click — from the pane's menu or the snap wheel. A one-time tip shows you how to bring the panes back.
- New: Bento Box's window fill is now reversible — enlarge a window to take over its screen, then restore it right back to where it was. (The snap wheel's 'Maximize' action is now called 'Fill'.)
- Improved: AI Staging is much easier to use — describe your projects and stages in a plain-English Recipe (with a ready-made starter template), preview exactly what will happen before anything moves, and let BetterStage pick the best window mode for each monitor by grouping your apps and choosing Tabbed Layout or Bento Box per screen.
- Improved: Settings has a cleaner, card-based layout with a Window Modes overview, so Native, Bento Box, and Tabbed Layout are clear at a glance.
- Performance: Window dragging is smooth again. Moving a window used to stutter and lag — now windows glide fluidly under your cursor.
- Fixed: In Tabbed Layout, the tab bar no longer freezes when a background app is busy (for example, an installer copying files) — your tabs and panes stay clickable while that app catches up.
- Fixed: Minimized windows now stay minimized when you switch stages and come back.
- Fixed: Windows stranded off-screen after your Mac wakes or your monitors change are recovered to the correct stage and monitor.
- Fixed: Find bars and pop-up panels no longer get dragged around or teleported along with your windows.
- Fixed: After sending an app to another stage, clicking its Dock icon now switches you to that stage.
- Fixed: 'Fill' no longer kicks a monitor out of Tabbed Layout into Bento Box.
BetterStage for Mac
$19.99
In English
Version 1.2.0
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