Note: For those living in the past, say roughly around August 19th 2026 or so, this post will appear timely. For those of you living in the present, it’s old news, as Moom 4.6 has been out since, well, August 19th 2026. It seems someone, perhaps me, forgot to push the Publish button in a timely manner. Whoops.

Moom 4.6 is out, and the big news is its support for placing windows in saved layouts based on proximity of those windows to the layout’s saved window locations. Moom can place windows using pure proximity, or a combination of proximity and frontmost—these two options replace the “any windows” choices in older versions of Moom. These new options are fully explained in Moom’s help, in the section on frontmost/nearest saved layouts, complete with some easy-to-follow screenshots.

Moom no longer considers hidden and minimized windows when restoring a layout that’s configured to apply to windows on the active display, and we worked around an issue where hidden apps’ windows weren’t correctly positioned when restoring a layout.

There are some other minor fixes, too; you can see them all in the release notes. As always, you can update in app by checking for updates, or by downloading a fresh copy of the app (you won’t lose your settings) from our site.

Moom 4.5.1 has been released, and it contains a number of minor bug fixes, improvements, and for those of you driving on under-construction Bay-Area bridges, some visual changes. There aren’t any huge changes in this release (hence the .0.1 increment in the version number), but Moom now gets along with Bartender’s Top Shelf feature, works around an issue with the cmux app, and does a better job at maintaining window ordering when restoring layouts on newer macOS versions.

More details can be found in the release notes, if you’re interested. As always, you can update within Moom, or by downloading a fresh copy of the app from our site (you won’t lose your settings).

For those of you on Moom Classic, there’s a small update coming its way, too—it’s been approved, so should be available now in the Updates section of the App Store app. (And if not now, then very shortly.)

Moom 4.5 has been released, with a couple of (very nice!) new features, and some bug fixes and behind the scenes improvements.

The first new feature is that Moom can now leave room for Stage Manager, if it’s visible and you’ve enabled Moom’s setting (in the gear icon) to allow room for Stage Manager.

The second new feature is an often-requested one: Moom can now optionally hide apps that aren’t in a saved layout when you restore that layout. This is a per-layout setting, so you can have some layouts that hide other apps, and some that don’t. For those of you (like me!) who don’t like Spaces, but still like to focus on certain projects, this is a great way to do just that.

You can read about the other changes and improvements in Moom’s release notes, and you can update with the in-app updater, or by downloading a fresh copy of the app (you won’t lose your settings!) from Moom’s web page.

Moom includes a year of updates with purchase, so if this update shows as paid for you, it means your year has expired. You can either purchase another year of updates now for $8, or wait and purchase when you’re ready—you won’t ever miss any updates, as you’ll get all prior updates up to that point, plus another year of updates.

Moom 4.4.2 is out today. This update adds a setting to control whether or not Moom auto-applies layouts on sleep and wake events; you can set it per saved layout. (Moom 4.4.1 made auto-applying on sleep and wake the default behavior, and some of you let us know you didn’t like that change. So now it’s changed back to off by default, and under your control.)

There are a number of other smaller bug fixes and improvements in Moom 4.4.2; check out the release notes for the full story.

As always, you can update in-app, or by downloading a fresh copy of Moom from our server (you won’t lose your settings).