Best Hot Corner and Screen Edge Tools for Mac

The short answer. SuperCorners turns the hot corners themselves into custom workflow triggers. MakeItHome is pointer-driven and fires screen-edge quick actions and app switching. Rectangle and Tiles are window managers that respond to screen edges, and they are in this list because the gesture is the same even though the job is different — Rectangle and Tiles will move a window, SuperCorners will run a shortcut, and macOS already ships a home screen action on every corner. The first question is whether you want a corner to do something or a drag edge to do something, because the two occupy the same pixels and conflict.

This guide covers 4 hot corner and screen edge tools for macOS. Every fact below is drawn from the same verified records that back each app’s own page. The recommendations are our editorial judgment, not payment. Last verified 2026-10-05.

Quick comparison

What actually decides this

• Corners or edges. A corner fires when you stop there; an edge fires while you are dragging. Corner triggers compete with the system action macOS already assigns to the same corner, and edge triggers compete with window managers and with each other.
• What fires when it triggers. Move a window, run a shortcut, launch an app and show a desktop are four different payloads. Rectangle and Tiles are the first; SuperCorners and MakeItHome are the second and third.
• How many zones it supports. Four corners is all macOS gives you and a pointer tool can add edges and custom regions. The number of zones is the number of gestures you can remember, which is a smaller number than the one advertised.
• How it asks for permissions. Screen recording and accessibility are the usual grants, and a pointer-driven tool needs both. The grant is the price of the gesture and it is worth knowing what is being paid before installing.
• What happens when you drag past by accident. The corner is where the pointer goes when you reach for something else. A corner trigger without a delay or a confirmation will fire when you did not intend it, which is why the good ones let you tune the dwell time.

Our picks

• SuperCorners — Its record describes turning hot corners into custom workflow triggers, which is the corner-trigger case. Choose it when you want the corners themselves to run a workflow.
• MakeItHome — Its record describes a pointer-driven launcher for screen-edge quick actions and app switching, which is the edge-action case. Choose it when you want pointer-driven screen-edge actions and app switching.
• Rectangle — Its record describes a window manager that moves and resizes windows with shortcuts or by dragging them to edges and corners, which is the window case. Choose it when the edge gesture you want is the one that moves and resizes windows.
• Tiles — Its record describes snapping and rearranging windows with screen edges, shortcuts or the menu bar, which is the snapping case. Choose it when you want to snap and rearrange windows from edges, shortcuts or the menu bar.

The apps

MakeItHome

MakeItHome is a system tool for macOS. Pointer-driven launcher for screen-edge quick actions and app switching. It is released under MPL-2.0.

What it does. Overscreen app switching — cross a screen edge to reveal the running apps with live, real-time window previews. Click a preview to jump straight to that window. App locking — pin an app to a screen edge so it is always one flick away, on every Space. The Widgets Zone — the top edge hosts a dedicated widgets area where you choose which built-in widgets appear. Fast web search — start a web search directly from the top zone, with full-page results in an instant overlay.

MakeItHome is listed with current version 2.1.0.

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Rectangle

Rectangle is a window manager for macOS. Free, open-source macOS window manager that moves and resizes windows with keyboard shortcuts or by dragging them to screen edges and corners. It is released under MIT. It is freemium.

Strengths. Is free and open source under the MIT licence, with the source published on GitHub. According to the developer, supports macOS 10.15 and later on both Intel and Apple silicon. According to the developer, snap areas let windows be placed by dragging them to a screen edge or corner, and portrait layouts are supported.

Trade-offs. Custom shortcuts for any window size and position require the separate paid Rectangle Pro. Rectangle Pro is free for only 10 days before it must be purchased for US$9.99. It snaps windows to predefined positions rather than tiling them automatically, so it is not a tiling window manager. The free application covers a fixed set of sizes and positions; custom shortcuts for arbitrary sizes need Rectangle Pro. Rectangle Pro is a separate paid application rather than an in-app purchase, and it is free for only 10 days.

Not for. Anyone who wants automatic tiling window management, which is a different model from snapping to positions. Users on macOS 10.14 or earlier, since Rectangle requires 10.15 or later.

What it does. Move and resize windows with keyboard shortcuts. Repeat a shortcut to cycle through window sizes. Snap areas: drag a window to a screen edge or corner to snap it. Portrait display layouts supported.

Rectangle is listed with current version 2.0.3.

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SuperCorners

SuperCorners is a Mac utility for macOS. Turn Hot Corners into custom workflow triggers. It is released under GPL-3.0.

What it does. Additional Zones - Trigger actions when moving your mouse the middle of any screen edge. Action Sets - Configure your actions on a per app basis for maximum control. Launch Apps - Launch apps directly from corners and zones. Trigger Hotkeys - Simulate hotkeys directly from corners and zones.

SuperCorners is listed with current version 2.0.1.

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Tiles

Tiles is a system tool for macOS. Snap and rearrange windows with screen edges, shortcuts, or the menu bar. It is free.

Tiles is listed with current version 1.3.2.

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How to choose

• Free of charge. Tiles — no payment is required.
• No licence fee, source available. MakeItHome and SuperCorners — the source can be read and, under the terms of each licence, reused.
• Freemium. Rectangle — free to use, with paid tiers for additional features.

Open source: MakeItHome, Rectangle and SuperCorners (3 of 4).

Common mistakes

• Installing two tools that both claim the same edge. They compete and the winner depends on which one was launched first.
• Assigning an action to the top-left corner and then reaching for the menu with the mouse. The corner fires and you learn nothing until it happens again.
• Assuming a corner can do what an edge can. Dragging is a continuous gesture and a corner is a destination; the two are not interchangeable.
• Granting screen recording for a gesture. Some of these need it and some ask for it out of habit, and it is worth checking which.

How this guide was put together

Each app’s facts come from its own record: the developer’s own pages and repository, the App Store listing where one exists, and the documentation, each with a source grade and an access date. Where a fact rests on the developer’s own statement rather than on something we verified independently, the sentence says so. Where our data has no value for something, the guide says “not published” instead of guessing.

A price appears here only where the record carries one from a stated source; the guide never estimates one, and it records the pricing model alongside so the two can be read together. Prices change and vary by region, so each app links to its own page for the current detail.

The facts and the recommendations are kept apart on purpose. Everything in the app entries, the comparison table and the answers above is composed from the records. The short answer, the criteria and the picks are our editorial judgment: they reflect what we would choose and why, and they are not paid for. Where we make a recommendation we name the condition it applies under, because we do not call anything “the best” without explaining the criteria.

Verified 2026-10-05.