StageSet for macOS

How it works

Set the stage once. Never again.

A profile is a snapshot of your entire window arrangement. Make as many as your life needs — Desk, Laptop, Meeting, Deep Work.

Act I

Arrange

Set up your windows the way you actually work — sizes, positions, displays, even which desktop each one lives on.

Act II

Save

One click in the menu bar captures everything, across all your desktops — including minimized and fullscreen windows.

Act III

Trigger

Attach the profile to a display, a hotkey, or a Shortcut. From then on, restoring is automatic.

Triggers

Your layout knows when it’s needed

Out of the box, StageSet puts windows back whenever your displays change. Profiles add triggers of their own.

Any display changeNo setup

Unplug, replug, sleep, wake. StageSet remembers the last layout for each set of displays you use and puts every window back, on its own desktop.

Display connect

Attach a profile to a specific monitor. StageSet recognizes it by its unique ID — same monitor, any port, any dock. Plug the cable in and your desk is set.

Hotkey

A global shortcut per profile. ⌥⌘1 for Work, ⌥⌘2 for Focus — your whole desk rearranges before you lift your fingers.

Shortcuts

Native App Intents. “When Zoom opens → Meeting profile” is a two-step Shortcut, and on macOS 26 so is “join the office Wi-Fi → Office.”

Beyond one desktop

It restores your desktops, too

Most window managers stop at the visible screen. StageSet captures every desktop in Mission Control — and puts each window back on the one it belongs to.

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All Spaces, one snapshot

Capture sees windows on every desktop, not just the one you’re looking at.

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Desktops recreated

Missing desktops are created on restore, and windows are moved onto them — verified one by one.

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Focus modes

A profile can flip your macOS Focus when it activates — Work layout, Work focus.

Pricing

Pay once. Own it.

^$19

One-time purchase. No subscription. No account.

3-day free trial — no card needed
Unlimited profiles
Use on up to 3 Macs
Free updates

Buy StageSet — $19

FAQ

Fair questions

What permissions does it need?

Only Accessibility, which is how any window manager reads and moves windows on macOS. Screen Recording is optional: macOS requires it just to read window titles, which lets StageSet include windows on desktops you haven’t opened since it started. StageSet never reads window contents and never records anything.

Why isn’t it on the Mac App Store?

The App Store sandbox forbids the Accessibility API entirely — no sandboxed app is allowed to move another app’s windows, so an app like this can’t exist there. StageSet is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple instead.

What happens to windows that aren’t in a profile?

A profile only moves the windows it captured. Separately, when your displays change, StageSet puts every window back where it was the last time that set of displays was connected. You can turn that off in Settings.

Does it work with multiple desktops (Spaces)?

Yes — that’s the flagship feature. Capture covers all desktops, and on restore StageSet can recreate your desktops and move each window onto the right one, verifying every move. It requires “Displays have separate Spaces” (the macOS default).

Every window, in its place.