Press kit

Alt-drag, for the Mac.

Kolibri moves and resizes Mac windows while you hold a modifier key and move the mouse. You never aim for a title bar or an edge.

Questions, promo codes, anything else. Write to carl-fredrik@arvidson.io.

The basics

One gesture, paid for once.

Name
Kolibri: Move Windows
What it is
Menu bar app for macOS 13 or later
Price
$7.99 / 99 kr, paid once. No subscription, no in-app purchases
Developer
Carl-Fredrik Arvidson, Arvidson Tech AB, Sweden
Privacy
Collects nothing. No account, no analytics, no network connections
Mac App Store
apps.apple.com/app/kolibri-move-windows/id6806594778
Kolibri Pro
kolibri.arvidson.tech, free for Kolibri owners

How it works

Hold two keys. The window under the pointer moves.

Hold fn and ctrl and move the mouse. Add Option and the same gesture resizes, from the nearest corner or from the bottom right. Any modifier combination works, and a preference can require a click before anything moves.

A sandboxed App Store app may not move another app's windows through the Accessibility API, and Apple rejects window managers that try. So Kolibri follows the pointer with its own outline, then hands the final position to a small shortcut in Apple's Shortcuts app, which moves the real window. It lands roughly a quarter of a second after you let go. The only permission Kolibri asks for is one Automation prompt, on the first move.

Kolibri Pro is the same app outside the sandbox. It moves the window itself while you drag, contents visible. It is a notarized direct download that reads the App Store receipt of the installed Kolibri on the same Mac, offline. No license key, no account, no server.

Kolibri does not tile or snap windows to screen edges. Magnet and Rectangle do that, and Kolibri runs fine next to them.

Copy you can use

Take any of this as it is.

One line

Kolibri moves and resizes Mac windows while you hold a modifier key and move the mouse, like alt-drag on Linux.

Short

Kolibri is a menu bar app that moves the window under the pointer while you hold fn and ctrl. Add Option to resize. You never aim for a title bar or an edge. It runs inside the App Store sandbox, asks for no Accessibility access, and collects no data. $7.99, paid once.

Long

On Linux you hold Alt and drag a window from anywhere inside it. macOS has never had that. You aim for the title bar to move a window and for a few pixels of edge to resize it.

Kolibri adds the missing gesture. Hold fn and ctrl and move the mouse, and the window under the pointer follows. Add Option and it resizes from the nearest corner. Pick any modifier combination you like, or require a click before anything moves.

Apple does not let a sandboxed App Store app move other apps' windows directly, so the store build draws an outline that tracks the pointer and places the window when you release the keys. People who want the window itself to follow can run Kolibri Pro, a free notarized download that unlocks from the App Store receipt. No license key, no account.

Kolibri costs $7.99 once and collects no data.

Kort, på svenska

Kolibri är en app i menyraden som flyttar fönstret under pekaren medan du håller fn och ctrl. Lägg till alternativtangenten för att ändra storlek. Du behöver aldrig sikta på en titelrad eller en kant. Appen kör i App Stores sandlåda, kräver ingen hjälpmedelsåtkomst och samlar inte in någon data. 99 kr, engångsköp.

Two builds

Store and Pro, side by side.

Kolibri Kolibri Pro
Price $7.99 / 99 kr, once Free for Kolibri owners
Where Mac App Store Direct download, notarized
While you drag An outline follows the pointer The window follows, contents visible
When you let go The window lands where the outline was The window is already there
Sandboxed Yes No
Permission One Automation prompt for Shortcuts Accessibility
Updates App Store Built in, through Sparkle
License The purchase The App Store receipt on the same Mac, checked offline

Media

Real desktop captures, free to use.

Kolibri Pro, the window follows the pointer. MP4
Kolibri from the App Store, the outline. MP4
A Mac desktop with two TextEdit windows and Kolibri's outline in the middle of a move.
Moving a window, store build. PNG, 2560 × 1600
A Mac desktop with Kolibri's outline resizing a window from its bottom right corner.
Resizing from the bottom right, store build. PNG, 2560 × 1600
The Kolibri app icon, a hummingbird.
App icon. PNG, 1024 × 1024