Window tiling comes to Scopo, and it stays in your Space

For a while, Scopo did one thing: it gave you a window switcher scoped to the Space you were working in, so Cmd+Tab stopped throwing every window on your Mac at you. People asked for the obvious next step almost immediately. Once you can switch cleanly within a Space, you want to arrange cleanly within it too.

So that's what shipped. Scopo now does window tiling, and it does it the Scopo way: scoped to your Space.

What window tiling on macOS usually looks like

If you've used Rectangle or Magnet, you know the model. You drag a window toward a screen edge, or hit a shortcut, and it snaps to a half or a quarter. It works well, and on a single screen it's often all you need.

The catch shows up if you like to keep different kinds of work in different Spaces. Those tilers treat your whole Mac as one canvas. They don't know that the windows in one Space are a different world from the windows in the next. Snapping is about pixels on a display, not about where you are.

Scopo already knows where each Space begins and ends, because you drew those boundaries yourself when you split your work across Spaces. Tiling just builds on that.

How tiling works in Scopo

There are two ways to tile, and they build the exact same layout. Use whichever fits the moment.

From the keyboard. Press Option+D to split the focused window's tile in two. Add Shift to split the other axis. Splitting opens an empty tile with a picker showing live thumbnails of every window in your current Space. Arrow keys move between tiles and flip across the divider; press Enter to drop a window in, or Esc to undo the split. Splits nest, so you can go from a simple left/right to columns, stacks, and full grids without ever touching the mouse.

With a drag. A small handle fades in above each window when your cursor gets close. Grab it and drag the window into a tile. Because tiling lives on its own handle, a normal title-bar drag never snaps a window by accident. Tiling is always something you mean to do.

Close a window, minimize it, or send it full-screen, and its neighbor expands to reclaim the space. Prefer a fixed structure instead? You can keep the empty tile.

The part that's different: it stays in your Space

Every Space keeps its own tiling layout, on every monitor. Build a three-pane setup in one Space, switch to another, and that Space's layout is right where you left it. Snapping a window never drags in something from another Space, because Scopo already knows where each Space begins and ends.

It's the same principle as the switcher: one Space, one scope, no clutter from anywhere else. Tiling and switching now live in a single tool that understands your Spaces, instead of one app for snapping and another for switching.

If you want the full walkthrough, the Window Tiling feature page covers every shortcut, and the comparison with Rectangle and Magnet lays out where Scopo's approach differs.

Also new: make Scopo look the way you want

Alongside tiling, this release adds real appearance controls. Open Settings and you'll find a live preview of the switcher panel that updates as you drag the sliders. No guessing, and no popping the switcher open again to check your work.

On macOS 26 and later, you can turn on a Liquid Glass background and choose between a frosted look or a clearer, more translucent one, with a tint slider to dial in how much the panel stands out from your wallpaper. On earlier macOS versions, you get blur and opacity controls that do the same job: a softer, more transparent panel, or a denser one that's easier to read over a busy desktop. If you ever want to start fresh, a full reset is one click away.

It's a small thing next to tiling, but it's the kind of detail that makes a tool you use dozens of times a day feel like yours.

Try it

Window tiling and the new appearance controls are part of Scopo Pro today. The switcher itself is free forever, and you can try every Pro feature with an optional 30-day trial. Tile, switch, and stay in the Space you're working in, all from one place.