SwiftShift.app

Sweet window management for macOS

https://github.com/pablopunk/SwiftShift/assets/4324982/8f0566b9-d18e-462e-8d74-52bcf6c95f52

Installation

There are several ways:

• 💰 Buy it at swiftshift.app (pay what you want)
• 🍺 Install it with homebrew brew install --cask swift-shift
• ⬇️ Download the latest release on Github
• 🚀 Clone it and build it yourself

Features

• Launch at login
• Hide menubar icon
• Focus on window
• Smart resizing with quadrants
• Ignore custom apps

Quadrants

https://github.com/pablopunk/SwiftShift/assets/4324982/5aac5bab-ad87-43c1-b2fe-fd55077f56f6

Contributing

You can either use Xcode (be careful with signing) or build it
directly from the command line:

Build and run from the command line

make run

Accessibility permissions running locally

Make sure you don’t have Swift Shift running already. If you have 2 versions of Swift Shift, only one will get
Accessibility permissions. To fix it:

• Quit all Swift Shift instances
• Remove Swift Shift from the System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Accessibility
• Run the app you want to test
• Enable Accessibility permissions

I’m open to PRs and requests. If you are looking for something to do, take a look at the issues marked as help wanted.

Release

1. Xcode > Swift Shift > General > Targets > Swift Shift > bump the version and the build (e.g. 0.26.0)
2. Xcode > Product > Archive
3. Select latest build and Distribute App > Direct Distribution > Distribute
4. Wait for Apple service to notarize it
5. Go to Distribute App again > Distribute > Export > Save it somewhere in your computer
6. make appcast "path/to/the/folder/you/saved" (make sure to use quotes)
7. Create a new branch, create a commit, tag it and push it

export APP_VERSION=0.26.0
git checkout -b "$APP_VERSION"
git commit -am "$APP_VERSION"
git tag "$APP_VERSION"
git push
git push --tags

8. Create a PR from that branch and merge it
9. Draft a new release and select that new tag
10. Click “Generate release notes”
11. Upload the SwiftShift.zip from the folder you saved the notarized app
12. Publish release