Any layout you name.
One key brings it back.
Putback is a Mac window manager built on memory instead of tiling. It learns where your windows already sit, rebuilds any layout you name with one hotkey, and keeps a separate one for every display setup you work at.
- One-time purchase
- 7 day free trial
- Apple silicon and Intel
- macOS Sonoma 14 or later


The window restore your Mac forgot to ship.
Undock your MacBook and every window piles onto one screen. Plug back in and nothing goes home. Putback watches your desk, remembers what belongs where, and puts it all back in under a second.
Others move windows. Putback puts them back.
Snapping tools are great at arranging the windows you drag. They just were not built for the moment your whole desk falls apart.
- Restores when displays change
- Named Scenes
- One hotkey each
- Per app rules
- Undo the last restore
- History with reasons
- Shortcuts actions
- Docks, hubs and sleep
- Layouts stay on your Mac
Putback is not a snapping tool. It is the memory your desk never had.
Design your desk before it exists.
Scenes are desks you can summon. Draw boxes for your apps in Scene Studio, even ones you have not opened, press Apply, and your Mac opens everything into place. Wallpaper included.

Apps open into place
Add any app to a scene as a placeholder. Apply, and Putback launches it, waits for its window, and seats it exactly where you drew it.
Even apps running without a windowWallpapers per scene
Give Coding a focused wallpaper and Mellow a sunset. Switch scenes and the whole desk changes, not just the windows.
Includes the built-in macOS gallery
One hotkey each
Every scene gets its own shortcut. Morning setup, meeting mode, deep work: each one is a single keystroke away.
Rebindable, with collision checksThree steps. Then forget it exists.
Every screen on this page is the real app, captured from a running copy of Putback 1.3.

Work like you always do
Arrange your windows once. Putback quietly snapshots your desk as you go. No setup ceremony, no rules to write.

Unplug without thinking
Grab your MacBook and go. macOS crushes everything onto one screen. That used to be your problem.

Plug back in. Done.
The instant your displays return, every window slides back to its exact place. Position, size, display, all of it.
No dark patterns.
No subscription. No nonsense.
Putback is built in the open by one person who got tired of re-dragging windows. The app counts what it actually does and shows you receipts, not marketing.
In their words.
“Having 4 screens and about 15 different windows open at the same time, Putback is genius when MacOS decides to scramble my layout.”
“I was struggling to find a solution for switching displays and keeping my windows in place for a long time and while other solutions required a lot of hand holding - Putback just works.”
“Every window stays where it should be.”
Pay once. Own it.
Every plan starts with a 7 day free trial. No card, no account, no countdown guilt. Just download it and see.
Personal
1 Mac- Every feature, forever
- Scenes + Scene Studio
- Move it to a new Mac anytime
- 7 day free trial first
Family
5 Macs- Everything in Personal
- Cover the desk and the laptop
- One key, whole household
- Deactivate a Mac to free a spot
Team
20 Macs- Everything in Family
- One invoice, no accounts
- Priority email support
- 7 day free trial first
Prices in USD. Licenses are per-Mac, not per-user, and a Mac can be deactivated anytime to free its spot. Questions? We answer fast.
Everything you would ask before trying it.
Why doesn't my Mac remember window positions?
It can, on Macs with "Displays have separate Spaces" on and "Automatically rearrange Spaces" off, though windows then can't span across displays. Many setups are configured otherwise, and even correct settings still lose windows to dock timing or certain apps. Putback restores exactly, every time, with a separate memory per setup. If the settings fix works for you, you may not need it.
Can I save a window layout on a Mac and restore it later?
Yes, and you do not have to save anything by hand for the automatic case: Putback keeps a separate memory of each display setup and puts every window back when that setup returns. When you want a specific arrangement on demand, save it as a named Scene and switch to it with a hotkey.
What are Scenes?
Named snapshots of a desk that you switch to by hotkey or click. Scene windows come forward and arrange exactly, with hide-others optional if you want the rest tucked away. Triggers can apply a scene on a schedule or when a video call starts. Nothing moves without the toast showing.
What happens when a scene's apps are not open?
Putback opens them and places each window the moment it appears. Apps running without a window get reopened too. If something refuses to come up, the toast tells you exactly what happened instead of pretending it worked.
Why does Putback need Accessibility access?
It's the permission macOS requires for any app that moves windows (Rectangle and Magnet use the same one). Putback uses it only for that: your layouts never leave your Mac, and the app is signed and notarized by Apple.
Is it a subscription?
No. You pay once, starting at $19, with a 7-day free trial of everything. If the trial ends before you buy, restoring pauses but your layouts stay saved, ready for when you upgrade.
How do the Mac limits work?
Each purchase is one license key that activates a set number of Macs: 1 on Personal, 5 on Family, 20 on Team. Getting a new Mac? Deactivate the old one from inside the app and the spot frees up instantly. No accounts, no per-person tracking.
How is this different from Rectangle or Magnet?
They tile: you press a shortcut and the front window snaps into a half or a quarter. Putback works from memory instead. It learns where your windows already sit, gives you named Scenes that one hotkey rebuilds, and keeps a separate layout for every display setup. Same shelf, different job, and they run together happily alongside Stage Manager.
How does Putback handle Mission Control Spaces?
Putback works within the Space you can see on each display: it remembers and restores those windows exactly, and it never records or moves windows on your other Spaces. Full multi-Space memory is on the roadmap. If you live in many Spaces, the visible ones are safe today.
Which Macs does it support?
macOS 14 Sonoma and later. The download is a universal build that runs natively on both Apple silicon and Intel, so there is only one version to get. Works with any number of displays. Sidecar and DisplayLink screens have not been tested yet, so try yours during the trial.
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The Mac window manager that remembers your layout.
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