Disclosure: Anchor is our app. Facts about Moom come from Moom's website and its help pages, checked on 5 October 2026.
Side by side
| Anchor | Moom | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 launch price, one-time (3 Macs); 7-day free trial | $15 (includes at least 1 year of updates, license valid forever); free trial |
| macOS | 14 or later | 10.13 or later (Moom 4.6) |
| Snapping and resizing | No: use macOS tiling or a snapping app | Yes: palette, snap zones, drop zones, keyboard control |
| Saving a layout | Learned automatically per setup | You save layouts from Moom's menu |
| Restore when displays change | Yes, by default | Yes, with "Apply automatically when switching to" on a saved layout |
| Where to get it | anchor.qubixcode.com | manytricks.com (Moom Classic is on the Mac App Store) |
Different jobs
Moom is mainly about arranging windows: hover the green button for a palette of sizes and positions, drag to snap zones, or drive everything from the keyboard. Its saved layouts restore a standard set of windows, and Moom's help describes a trigger that fires a layout "when you add or remove displays from your system", and one for when the display arrangement changes.
Anchor doesn't arrange windows at all. It remembers where you put them on each setup, from your monitors' hardware IDs, and moves them back when that setup returns. Because it learns as you work, the layout it restores is the one you had last, not the one you last saved.
Which should you pick?
- Pick Moom if you want a full window manager, or you're on a macOS older than 14.
- Pick Anchor if you already arrange windows your own way and only want them back after docking. Try it free for 7 days.