Deft

Give your Mac the Windows habits you miss — free, native, and open source.

Deft is a lightweight macOS menu-bar app that brings the window-management and keyboard behaviour of Windows to your Mac, without changing anything permanently.

Features

• Windows Snap — drag windows to edges/corners to snap them; Snap Layouts, Snap Assist, shared resize dividers, and Win+arrow keys. A maximized window shrinks to half size the moment you drag it, like Windows.
• Live Preview — real, moving window thumbnails in the switcher (Alt+Tab in Windows mode, Cmd+Tab in Mac mode), Snap Assist, and when hovering the Dock.
• Windows keyboard — Ctrl acts as Cmd, the Win key, F-keys, Home/End, Explorer keys in Finder, a Windows-style language switch key, and auto-detection of Windows vs Mac keyboards.
• Cut & paste files in Finder — Ctrl+X (or ⌘+X on a Mac keyboard) then Ctrl/⌘+V moves files, like Explorer.
• Mouse & scroll — independent natural-scroll for mouse and trackpad, side-button back/forward, and Ctrl+scroll to zoom (sent as ⌘+scroll to apps that zoom that way, ⌘+/⌘− to the rest).
• System Monitor — live CPU, RAM, SSD, and temperature cells in the menu bar with smooth animation; click for details (CPU, SSD and battery temperatures).
• AI Usage — a Claude Code cell next to CPU/RAM with the same session and weekly percentages /usage shows, read from the file Claude Code keeps on your Mac (no account, nothing leaves your Mac). Click for weekly and per-model limits, reset times, tokens, and approximate cost.
• Display controls — resolution, refresh rate, rotation, set main display, power a display off, and a drag-to-arrange window.
• Clean Keyboard — lock every key so you can wipe the keyboard.
• Glass slider — choose how see-through the menu and windows are, from clear Liquid Glass to frosted; the menu updates as you drag.
• Manual — a built-in guide to every feature, in English and Thai.

See it move

Drag to an edge to snap — Snap Assist fills the rest

Snap Layouts — drag to the top and pick a layout

Alt+Tab with live window previews

Screenshots

Menu bar	System Monitor & Claude Code usage

Arrange Displays	Manual

Install

1. Download the latest Deft.dmg from Releases.
2. Open it and drag Deft to Applications.
3. Launch Deft and grant the permissions it asks for (see below).

The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without security warnings.

Or with Homebrew:

brew tap ninjait07/deft https://github.com/ninjait07/deft
brew trust ninjait07/deft
brew install --cask deft

Permissions & privacy

Deft works entirely on your Mac and collects nothing. It uses:

• Accessibility — move/resize windows and translate shortcuts.
• Screen Recording — draw live window previews (nothing is recorded or sent).
• Input Monitoring — tell a Windows keyboard from a Mac one.

The only network request Deft makes is checking for updates (a small public file on GitHub). See PRIVACY.md.

Build from source

./build.sh                 # build + sign + launch (dev)
KNACK_VERSION=1.0 KNACK_BUILD=1 ./release.sh 1.0 1   # notarized release dmg

Requires macOS 13+, Xcode command-line tools, and a Developer ID for signing/notarizing. The whole app is a single Swift file: Deft.swift.

Follow

Updates, demos and new projects are posted on the NonDev Facebook page — follow along, ask questions, or suggest features there.

Support

Deft is free. If it makes your Mac feel like home, you can tip via PromptPay (in-app) or GitHub Sponsors. Thank you!

License

GPL-3.0 — crafted by Non Bannawat 🇹🇭