Try Vircue Beta

1.0.0-beta.1 · macOS 13+

Vircue is a menu-bar window manager for macOS: save arrangements as layouts, restore them with a click or a hotkey, and jump between Spaces with the same layout remembering which apps live where. This is the first public beta — signed by an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, and it auto-updates from inside the app as new betas ship.

Download for macOS DMG

What’s in the beta

• Layouts — save and restore your windows across displays. Multi-monitor variants stored per setup (docked / undocked live side by side).
• Multi-Space layouts — capture different apps on different Desktops; restore hops to each Desktop and positions them there.
• Auto-Arrange — app-aware tiling on the focused screen (⌃⌥A); press again to cycle through primary-left / primary-right / even-grid.
• Picture-in-Picture — mirror any window into a floating corner (⌃⌥P).
• Scheduling — open layouts, apps, or websites on a schedule.
• Global hotkeys — ⌃⌥1–9 for layouts, plus PIP / Auto-Arrange / Minimize.
• Free plan: 3 layouts, manual switching, minimize-Space. Pro trial: 14 days of full Pro on first launch.

Honest limits

A few things are worth knowing up front — they aren’t bugs, they’re constraints macOS places on any window-management app:

• Windows can’t move between Spaces. macOS blocks apps from moving another app’s existing window across Desktops. Vircue works around this by opening a new window on the target Desktop for multi-window apps (Safari, Finder, Notes). Single-window apps (Reminders, Calendar, System Settings) report “On another Space” with click-to-jump.
• Multi-Space navigation needs Switch-to-Desktop shortcuts. For deterministic Desktop jumping, Vircue synthesizes ⌃N. Apple ships those keyboard shortcuts turned off; Vircue’s Settings screen can enable them for you with one click.
• Keeping a Picture-in-Picture live across Spaces costs something. macOS stops drawing a window once it’s on another Desktop, so a plain mirror freezes. Vircue offers two ways around it, and asks once per app: reopen a Chrome/Electron app with background rendering enabled (it stays put, but is relaunched), or move the window onto a hidden display Vircue creates (nothing is relaunched, but the window leaves its Desktop until you close the PIP). Videos skip all of this — Vircue pops the app’s own native player, which never stops playing.
• DRM video may render black on the hidden display. Netflix and Disney+ are exactly the cases Vircue already routes through native video PiP instead, so in practice you won’t hit it.

Privacy

Vircue is offline. No accounts, no servers, no analytics. Layouts and preferences live in a config file in your home folder. See the privacy policy for detail.

Reporting bugs

Menu-bar icon → Settings → Send Feedback… composes a pre-filled email to support@vircue.app. Include what you were doing and what happened. If Vircue crashed, macOS keeps a report at ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Vircue….ips — attach the most recent one.

Thanks for testing — every report shapes the release build.