macOS 14+ · Apple silicon and Intel
Tiling for the Mac.
Every window you open lands where it should. Nine desktops, one keystroke, and every binding and preference changed in a settings window, not a config file.
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Settings
No Config File
Change a Keybind by Pressing It
Gaps, the focus border, desktop count, which terminal ⌥↩ opens, every shortcut. Click a binding and press the new chord; it warns you if something else holds it.
Seven tabs, and ⌘ K searches all of them. There is a config file underneath, and you never have to open it.
Tessa Settings
Search settings⌘K
Focus left
Bound to ⌥H and ⌥←
⌥H
Focus right
Press a new chord to change it
⌥L
Move the window left
Bound to ⌥⇧H and ⌥⇧←
⌥⇧H
Primary modifier
Every binding follows it
⌥
Recording. Press a chord, or ⎋ to keep the current one.
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Bindings
Every Default Binding
Rebind any of them in the app.
Both sets are bound. This only changes what is printed.
Focus
- Focus left
- ⌥H
- Focus down
- ⌥J
- Focus up
- ⌥K
- Focus right
- ⌥L
Move the window
- Move the window left
- ⌥⇧H
- Move the window down
- ⌥⇧J
- Move the window up
- ⌥⇧K
- Move the window right
- ⌥⇧L
Move the edge
- Move the edge left
- ⌥⌃H
- Move the edge down
- ⌥⌃J
- Move the edge up
- ⌥⌃K
- Move the edge right
- ⌥⌃L
Desktops
- Go to desktop 1–9
- ⌥1 – 9
- Throw the window there
- ⌥⇧1 – 9
- Show the desktop
- ⌥D
Windows
- New terminal
- ⌥↩
- Fill the desktop
- ⌥F
- Float the window
- ⌥V
- Make this the main window
- ⌥M
- Applications
- ⌥Space
- Show every shortcut
- ⌥/
Layout
- Flip this split
- ⌥E
- Flip every split
- ⌥⇧E
- Lay out as a grid
- ⌥G
- Switch this desktop's layout
- ⌥⇧M
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Why Tessa
Why Tessa
| Feature | Tessa | yabai | AeroSpace | Rectangle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs with SIP enabled | ||||
| Windows split themselves | ||||
| Nine instant desktops | ||||
| Settings you can click | ||||
| No config file | ||||
| No terminal to install | ||||
| Built-in app launcher | ||||
| Shortcut cheat sheet | ||||
| Signed and notarised |
04/Price
One-Time
$19.99
A perpetual licence for version 1.
- Pay once, keep it forever
- Two machines per licence
- 14 days free, no card
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Questions