Stay
Stay is a macOS window management app that saves and restores window positions and sizes across different display setups.
What is Stay?
Stay is a native macOS utility for keeping application windows arranged the way you want. It helps people who regularly work with multiple apps, multiple monitors, or changing laptop-and-external-display setups by saving window sizes and positions and restoring them later. You can store layouts for a single window, one app, or many open apps, then bring those windows back to their saved locations from the menu bar or with hot keys. Stay can also restore layouts automatically when displays are connected or disconnected and when apps launch. For windows that are harder to match reliably, it includes manual linking and title-pattern tools to improve restoration. Published by Cordless Dog, Stay is mainly aimed at users who want a tidier, more repeatable desktop workflow on Mac.
Key features
- Save window positions and sizes for individual windows, apps, or full desktop layouts
- Restore saved window layouts from the menu bar or with keyboard shortcuts
- Keep separate window arrangements for different monitor and display configurations
- Automatically restore windows when displays are connected, disconnected, or changed
- Restore windows when applications launch
- Manually link difficult windows to improve matching accuracy
- Use title pattern matching for windows that change names frequently
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Stay is legitimate window-management software for Mac. To move and resize other apps' windows, it may need Accessibility permission, which is normal for this kind of tool. It can also run at login and stay available from the menu bar so it can restore layouts automatically. If you no longer use it, removing it mainly affects your saved window arrangements and automation rather than your documents.
Recommendation: Keep Stay if you rely on saved window layouts, hot keys, or automatic window restoration when using multiple displays. If you do not use those features anymore, you can remove it and its support files to free a small amount of space, but your saved layouts and preferences will be lost.
Common paths
/Applications/Stay.app
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Stay
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.cordlessdog.Stay.plist
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