"Cinch" your desktop windows into place

Cinch is a new Mac utility from Irradiated Software. It helps keep your desktop windows organized by snapping them into predefined sizes and locations when you hold them near an edge of your screen. While its toolset is limited in comparison to its big sister, the keyboard-based SizeUp (which we covered a while back), Cinch is designed as a quick-and-easy window organization tool for users who prefer to stick with their mouse for such things.

When you run Cinch, it shows up in your menubar. When you drag any window to a top, left or right edge of the screen, it "snaps" (or cinches) to take up the full width or height of the screen: top half stretched horizontally if dragged to the top, and a vertical half for left or right. It's handy, and it's easy to get so used to it that you forget it isn't built into the operating system.

Cinch works with multi-monitor setups, and there's no configuration necessary. Just run it and start dragging windows where you need them. Cinch is available for download as a free trial, and a license can be had for $7US.

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Johnny Wilde

Would you tell me how you uninstalled Cinch???
Thanks Johnny
johnny@wildeco.com

February 22 2010 at 7:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

RyanR

Hello Mr Jordan, I am here to present you with Windows Fanboi Award 2009. Be proud.

December 30 2009 at 9:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Simplicated

Yet there are still many third-party software copying features of Mac OS X like ExposÃ© and Dashboard. Douche.

December 23 2009 at 8:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

longterm

Doesn't work with my 4-monitor setup. I get the action on the leftmost and rightmost monitors, but not the center one, which is set as the main monitor (where my menubar resides).

It seems like a great idea, but I don't see how to make this work.

December 18 2009 at 4:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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bump

I just updated the website and screencast with a tip on how to better use Cinch with multiple displays: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/

December 21 2009 at 7:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Thayne Miller

At least a few hundred million people

December 18 2009 at 3:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Janichsan

Steve Jobs, Linus Torvald, me, a couple of millions other Mac & Linux users...

December 18 2009 at 3:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ben_poole_15

um isn't this a third party company not apple? how is apple copying anything?

December 18 2009 at 1:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jack Chance

Double Standards? There is no double standard.
There is one standard. Steve Jobs defines it.

All else is garbage.

December 18 2009 at 1:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eccent

MacOSXHints had applescripts how to do this(or something similar) yesterday:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20091208103758143

December 18 2009 at 1:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

TheBen

Nice add-on for every Mac in my opinion.
Yes, it's a feature that originally came from Windows 7, but who said that Windows 7 has absolutely no go features? You can't simply say that ALL of the features that it offers are worthless, and if there' a feature that I like about it it's this and now I'm glad I can have it too, without switching to a crappy OS (not talking about 7 in specific anymore, I'm speaking about Windows in general) :).

I also agree with blachole, I don't think is a $7 app, more like a free one (or if the developer is insisting - a symbolic $0.99 price tag would fit as well). For now I'm afraid I'll have to uninstall it until the developer lowers it's price...

December 18 2009 at 12:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply