OpenDesktopNew Workspace Desktop ⌃⌥⌘N
A brand-new Desktop with your default layout. Out of the box: Chrome (or Safari), Terminal and Finder at 33, 44 and 23 percent of the screen.
New Tidy All Desktops sorts every window by kind
One keystroke. A new Desktop, laid out.
OpenDesktop lives in your Mac's menu bar. It opens a fresh Desktop with your browser, Terminal and Finder side by side, and puts every other Desktop back in order when things pile up.
- Free
- Notarized by Apple
- No data collected
- Apple silicon and Intel
- macOS 14 or later
Everything lives in the menu bar
Every command has a shortcut, so a fresh, tidy workspace is one keystroke away.
Tidy This Desktop ⌃⌥⌘T
Windows piled on top of each other snap back into their columns, even with two windows of the same app.
Tidy All Desktops ⌃⌥⌘C New
Every Desktop at once: workspaces back in columns, everything else sorted by kind, empty Desktops gone. Three dings when it's done.
Templates ⌃⌥⌘S ⌃⌥⌘O
Save a Desktop exactly as it is: every app, where it sits, Chrome's tabs, Finder's folder, Terminal's directory. Reopen it on a new Desktop from a gallery of cards, and make any template the one ⌃⌥⌘N opens.
Close This Desktop ⌃⌥⌘W
Closes every window on the Desktop and removes it, after you confirm. Anything unsaved still asks you first.
Empty Desktops clear themselves
Optional: while you're away from your Mac, OpenDesktop deletes Desktops with nothing on them, so Mission Control stays short.
Feel organized, not overwhelmed
The tools that keep a Mac full of windows calm.
Tidy All sorts every window by kind
Videos with videos, images with images, chats with chats, apps with apps, on as few Desktops as hold them comfortably.
- A lone video never sits on a Desktop of its own; it joins the others.
- Windows keep their shape: portrait videos stay portrait, laid out in neat rows.
- Workspaces get their browser, Terminal and Finder columns back.
- It shows the plan first, and three dings tell you when it's done.
Videos
Images
Chats
Workspace
Save any Desktop as a template
Every app and where it sits. Reopen it later on a new Desktop, on the screen it was saved from, from a gallery with a screenshot of each layout.
- Chrome's tabs, Finder's folder and Terminal's directory come back too.
- Set any template as the default for ⌃⌥⌘N.
One menu, every shortcut
OpenDesktop is three small panes in your menu bar. Nothing else to learn.
- Links for Shortcuts, Raycast or a shell: opendesktop://new, tidy, tidy-all, close.
- Works across several displays.
- Keep Desktop Order: Desktops stay exactly where you drag them, and new ones go at the end.
- Starts at login if you want it to; it asks once.
Set up in about a minute
Once, and then it's one keystroke.
- Open the downloadDouble-click OpenDesktop.dmg and drag OpenDesktop into Applications.
- Start itIt appears in the menu bar as three small panes. Choose whether it starts at login.
- Allow AccessibilitySystem Settings opens at Privacy & Security > Accessibility. Switch OpenDesktop on.
- Press ⌃⌥⌘NYour first workspace opens on a new Desktop.
What it asks for, and why
macOS has no public way to create a Desktop, so OpenDesktop drives Mission Control the way you would.
AccessibilityTo move and size windows and to operate Mission Control: pressing its + button and dragging windows between Desktops.
Automation, per appFinder, Chrome, Safari and Terminal, to open new windows and to read what a template saves.
Screen Recording, optionalOnly for the screenshot on a template's card. Without it, the card shows a drawing of the layout.
Nothing leaves your Mac. OpenDesktop makes no network requests and collects no data. No account, no analytics, no ads. Privacy policy
Questions, ideas, bugs?
Tell us what would make your Desktops calmer. Every message goes straight to the person who builds OpenDesktop.
Get your Desktops back
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