Changelog

Fixed

• Going into a window no longer makes it vanish for a moment after it appears, as could happen with Dia.

Fixed

• Menus, dropdowns and alerts in apps such as Brave now keep appearing after you switch windows or come back from the canvas.

New

• Tile in the layout you want: keep holding the tile key to choose Balanced, Columns, Main and side, Center, Main and shelf or Grid, with a preview before anything moves.
• Drag a tile onto another to swap them, or press the Pane key and Return to make a tile the main one.
• A Tiles page in Settings sets the layout for new groups and the space between windows.

Improved

• Windows that join or leave a group settle back into its layout, and a layout you arranged by hand stays as you left it.
• Tiling a group again brings back exactly the layout it had.
• Dividers catch at a third, a half and two thirds, and a double-click evens them out.
• A tile you drag gets smaller as you pull it, so you can see where it’s going.

Fixed

• The same windows now always tile the same way.
• Leaving a video’s full screen (or any app’s) now takes you back to that window, not out to the canvas.
• Opening a file or folder while peeking at the desktop now takes you into its window, instead of leaving your windows stuck over the desktop.

Fixed

• Pane no longer quits on its own when a dialog such as “You’re up to date!” stays open for more than a few seconds.
• Crash reports now reach us from every Mac, whatever your account is called, so we can fix what went wrong.
• The canvas key now leaves a native full-screen window full screen, with a card on the canvas that takes you back.
• Clicking a window in a stack you just made or tiled now opens it the first time.
• A minimized window now keeps a visible card in its place on the canvas.
• The Documentation window no longer changes size as you page through it, so Next stays put.
• Setup comes back in front of System Settings after you allow Accessibility.
• Setup’s wording now matches what shortcuts do, and an old key error clears when you paste a new key.

The first public version of Pane: every window on your Mac, live, on one canvas you pan and zoom.

New

• Every window you have lives on one big canvas. Slide around it with two fingers and pinch to zoom, as you would a map.
• Click a window and it opens full screen, ready to use. Pinch back out to the canvas, or swipe to the window beside it.
• Start typing on the canvas to find a window by its app or title, or move between windows with the arrow keys.
• Pile a task’s windows into a named stack that moves as one. Unstack them and each goes back to where it was.
• A window you take native full screen keeps its place on the canvas as a card that takes you there.
• Tile windows side by side in full screen, or drop one onto another’s edge to share the screen.
• Scrolling strips: a row of full-height columns, wider than the screen, that you scroll along.
• Tidy evens out a messy canvas without losing where things are, and undo takes it back.
• Hold Space over a window to read it up close, then let go to put it back.
• Portals pin a window small in a corner, live, while you work in another.
• Radar beacons on the screen’s edge point at windows out of view.
• Mind: tell Pane what you want done with your windows, typed or spoken, and have it group the canvas by task.
• Each display has its own canvas, and an unplugged display’s windows wait as a stack on the main one.
• Quit an app or restart your Mac, and its windows come back to where they were.
• A hands-on tutorial on first run, and a Documentation window with a page for everything Pane does.
• Send Feedback from the menu bar, right inside Pane.
• Pane updates itself quietly and offers Restart to Update when a new version is ready.