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Stage Manager for Mac

Stage Manager for macOS works like Apple’s, plus what people have asked Apple for: your stages come back after a restart. Free and open source.

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“cleanshotx - scrolling screenshots is much more robust.”

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“I don't think it makes sense to spend the money for Cleanshot when other apps do most of what it does for a lot less or free.”

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Stage Manager for macOS works like Apple's, plus what people have asked Apple for. Stages come back after a restart and stay in a fixed order. Shift-click opens a window in a new stage, you can drop one card onto another to merge stages, and Ctrl-Option-1 to 9 switches between them. It's native Rust, free, and open source. Requires macOS 14+ on Apple silicon.

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