Deft Deft

Windows habits, on your Mac.

Deft is a free, native menu-bar app that brings window snapping, live previews, and Windows-style keyboard behaviour to macOS — without changing anything permanently.

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Free & open source · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon · signed & notarized
What it does

Everything you missed from Windows

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Windows Snap

Drag to edges and corners to snap. Snap Layouts, Snap Assist, shared resize dividers, and Win+arrow keys.

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Live Preview switcher

Real, moving window thumbnails in Alt+Tab and Cmd+Tab, Snap Assist, and when you hover the Dock.

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Windows keyboard

Ctrl works as Cmd, the Win key, F-keys, Home/End, Explorer keys in Finder — with auto keyboard detection.

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Mouse & scroll

Independent natural-scroll for mouse and trackpad, side-button back/forward, and Ctrl+scroll to zoom.

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System Monitor

Live CPU, RAM, and SSD cells in the menu bar, smoothly animated. Click for details.

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Claude Code usage

See how much of your 5-hour Claude Code window you've used, right next to CPU/RAM — estimated from local logs, no account needed.

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Display controls

Resolution, refresh rate, rotation, main display, power a display off, and drag-to-arrange displays.

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Clean Keyboard

Lock every key, Fn, and media button so you can safely wipe the keyboard.

See it move

Snapping that feels like home

Dragging a window to the left edge snaps it, then Snap Assist fills the right half
Drag to an edge — Snap Assist fills the rest
Dragging a window to the top opens Snap Layouts
Snap Layouts — drag to the top, pick a zone
Alt+Tab switcher with live window previews
Alt+Tab with live previews
A closer look

Liquid Glass, everywhere

Menu bar: CPU, RAM and Claude Code cells
CPU · RAM · Claude Code, beside the Deft icon
The Deft menu
Everything is a switch
System Monitor details with Claude Code usage
Click a cell for details
Arrange Displays window
Drag displays into place, rotate, set main
Built-in Manual
Built-in Manual, English and Thai
Private by design

It stays on your Mac.

Deft collects nothing, has no accounts, no ads, and no tracking. It asks only for the macOS permissions it needs — and the code is open, so you can verify exactly what it does.

  • Accessibility — move and resize windows, translate shortcuts.
  • Screen Recording — draw live previews. Nothing is ever recorded or sent.
  • Input Monitoring — tell a Windows keyboard from a Mac one.
  • The only network use is checking for updates on GitHub.
Get started

Install in a minute

  1. Download the latest Deft.dmg from the releases page and open it.
  2. Drag Deft into your Applications folder.
  3. Launch Deft and grant the permissions it asks for.

Prefer Homebrew?

brew tap ninjait07/deft https://github.com/ninjait07/deft
brew trust ninjait07/deft
brew install --cask deft

Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without security warnings.

Free forever

If Deft makes your Mac feel like home

A small tip keeps it free and evolving. Thank you!

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