Although only a minor bump in version number, Moom 4.1.1 contains a good number of improvements, including the biggie: Moom 4 is aware of macOS Sequoia’s snap-related features, and automatically disables them when the corresponding Moom features are active. You can also now drop windows on partially obscured target areas in drop zones, and we improved things in a number of other areas—check out the release notes for all the details.

Moom 4.1.1 can be downloaded from our site (you won’t lose your settings), or you can update within the app itself via the update checker in the gear icon menu in Moom’s Settings window.

Note: We released 4.1.2 to fix a regression in “Move to Other Display” that affected some users.

Moom 4.1 is out with some bug fixes, and adds a couple of oft-requested features—as much as something can be oft-requested after only existing for a week! First off, you can now see your keyboard shortcuts in the Settings window; set their visibility using the Show Hot Keys in Sidebar menu item in the View menu. (There are three states: On, off, and only visible when the window is wider than its minimum width.)

But the big news in Moom 4.1 is the expanded access to drop zones: You can now activate drop zones in three different ways, including by holding a modifier key (Shift, Fn, Command, Option, and Control) down while dragging a window. This means you can quickly access any of five different layouts’ saved window locations simply by holding a key while dragging a window:

You can even combine drop zone modifier key activation with Moom’s Hover feature—if a modifier key has an assigned layout, and that modifier key is used to hover-move windows, then that layout’s drop zones will instantly activate when you start hover-moving a window.

You’ll find the settings for drop zones’ new access methods in the Snap section of Moom’s Settings, and we highly encourage you to read the relevant section in Help for full details on how these new drop zone access methods work.

And as always, you can read the full release notes to see everything that’s new or fixed in this update. And you can get the update via the in-app updater (in the Settings window’s gear icon), or by downloading a fresh copy of the app from our site—don’t worry, you won’t lose your settings.

Moom 4.0.1 is out, and it addresses three small issues:

• Those with non-retina displays will no longer see weirdly-sized icons in their palette and Moom’s Settings windows after moving windows around.
• You can now use Moom’s keyboard mode on Moom’s own settings window without glitches.
• If you tell Moom to resize and center a window, and the resized window can’t be sized to what you specified (because it’s got a minimum window size, for instance), Moom will now correctly center the window anyway.

You can also read the above in Moom’s release notes, of course—which also contains the massive list of what’s new in 4.0, in case you haven’t seen that yet!

You can update within Moom 4 by clicking the gear icon in Moom’s Settings window and clicking the Check Now button, or by installing a new version from our site—you won’t lose your settings.

Moom 4 is available now, and requires macOS 10.13 or newer. Moom 4 is priced at $15, and existing (Mac App Store or direct) Moom 3 users can upgrade for just $8. Please see How Can I Buy Moom 4 for details on purchasing—especially if you’re an App Store customer, as Moom 4 is only available directly from Many Tricks. (New App Store customers who have just bought Moom Classic in the App Store qualify for Moom 4 upgrade pricing. The total of the App Store and upgrade purchase is the same $15 as new direct customers pay for Moom 4.)

It may have been a long time coming—over 12 years since Moom 3’s release—but we think Moom 4 was well worth the wait. During those years, we’ve been listening to all your input, as well as learning more about what we can do with windows on macOS, and Moom 4 reflects that feedback and learning. It’s both the same app you’ve known and used since its initial release in 2011, and an entirely new app that offers a number of new window management tools.

What’s new?

So what’s new? A slew of stuff! If you enjoy reading long lists, take a look at the release notes, which detail all the changes. It’s an extensive list.

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Note: We managed to work around this slowdown in Moom 3.2.27. Please update now if you haven’t already! After updating, feel free to re-enable the highlight feature; it’ll work fine.

With the release of macOS 14.5, we received a number of reports from users that Moom’s keyboard mode had become so slow as to be unusable—there would be a many-second delay after invoking keyboard mode before the onscreen controller appeared. At first, we were unable to replicate the problem, but after working with the users, we figured out the setup that will cause the problem—and we found a way to prevent it from happening.

The following applies if you use Moom on macOS 14.5 and use Moom’s keyboard mode (Moom Settings → Keyboard → Trigger keyboard control with hot key is enabled). In addition, the problem seems to occur more often for those using multiple displays.

While we don’t know what changed in macOS 14.5 to cause this slowdown, we do have a fix to prevent it from happening: Open Moom’s Settings and go to the General tab, then disable the grid/keyboard control highlight by moving its slider all the way to the left:

With the highlight off, Moom’s keyboard mode will work without delay. We’re still investigating what changed in macOS 14.5 to cause this problem, and to hopefully identify a workaround so we can bring back the highlighting feature. For now, though, leave the highlight off if you use Moom’s keyboard mode on Mac running macOS 14.5.

Today’s Moom update fixes a few annoying little things that have popped up, mostly since Sonoma was released:

• Moom will no longer generate a macOS permissions request about accessing data from other apps. (This only affected users using third-party desktop image apps from the Mac App Store.)
• We’ve improved error logging to help diagnose issues Moom may have when interacting with other apps.
• Moom’s pop-up menu now works when the LanguageTool app is running.
• Moom’s pop-up also now works when the TopDrop app is running (Hat tip to Alex P. for reporting this one.)

As always, update from within the app, or just download a fresh copy from Moom’s page (you won’t lose your settings).