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What is Vindue?

Vindue is a free, open-source menu-bar window tiler for macOS in the spirit of Divvy: a tray click (or an optional hotkey) throws a grid over your screen, you drag across cells, and the frontmost window snaps to exactly that region. ("Divvy" is a Mizage trademark; this project is unaffiliated.)

No Dock icon, no account, no telemetry — Vindue lives in your menu bar and keeps every setting in a JSON file you own.

Features​

  • Drag-to-tile grid — translucent panel overlay, live selection highlight, window lands exactly on the chosen cells (work area, gaps, margins applied)
  • Panels on every display at once — each grid mirrors its display's aspect ratio; drag on any panel to place the window there
  • Keyboard shortcuts with display memory — save grid regions to keys; assignments can pin to a specific display or follow the panel
  • Nine presets — full, halves, quadrants — proportional on any grid size
  • Schema-validated settings — form and raw-JSON views of the same config, live reload, proportional shortcut rescaling on grid changes
  • Display identification that survives replug — canonical labels with positional suffixes for identical monitors
  • Built for AI and automation — every panel action is also an API call: loopback REST for scripts, MCP for Claude & friends (automation guide)
  • Private by construction — loopback-only server, browser-request rejection, everything local

Free and MIT licensed.

Next: the quickstart — install, grant access, first tile in under a minute.