Glide
Glide is a macOS tiling window manager that helps you organize windows with keyboard-driven layouts, Spaces integration, and configurable behavior.
What is Glide?
Glide is a tiling window manager for macOS that helps users arrange and control app windows more efficiently. It is designed for people who want a keyboard-focused workflow similar to tiling window managers on Linux while still working within standard macOS features such as Spaces and Mission Control. Glide can manage windows in tiled layouts, let you enable or disable management per Space, and support different setups as you move between displays. It also offers configurable key bindings and text-based settings for users who want to tailor navigation and layout behavior. This makes it useful for developers, power users, and anyone who regularly works with many open windows. Glide is published by Tyler Mandry.
Key features
- Arrange windows in tiling layouts on macOS
- Navigate and manage windows with keyboard shortcuts
- Work with Mission Control and separate Spaces
- Enable or disable window management for individual Spaces
- Customize key bindings and behavior with a config file
- Adapt layouts when moving between built-in and external displays
- Save layout state during a login session and restore it when restarting the app
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Glide is a legitimate window management tool for macOS. To control and rearrange windows, it may ask for Accessibility access, which is a normal permission for this type of app because it needs to observe and move windows across your desktop. If you stop using Glide, removing that permission and quitting the app will stop its window management features. Use it only if you want a keyboard-driven window workflow, and review its settings before enabling automatic launch at login.
Recommendation: Keep Glide if you actively use tiling window management or want faster keyboard-based window control on your Mac. If you do not use those features, you can remove it or disable its login service without affecting normal macOS window management.
Common paths
/Applications/Glide.app~/.config/glide/glide.toml~/.glide.toml
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