GestureCraft vs Swish (2026)

People land on "GestureCraft vs Swish" expecting two versions of the same app. They aren't. Swish is a dedicated window manager — you swipe and pinch on a window's title bar to snap, resize, and move it. GestureCraft is a general mapper for three input surfaces — trackpad gestures, keyboard shortcuts, and mouse buttons — that run whatever action you assign. Full disclosure: I make GestureCraft, so I'll be straight about when Swish is the one to get.

At a glance

	GestureCraft	Swish
Price	$7.99 once	$16 once (or on Setapp)
Macs per license	Up to 3	2
What it's for	Map gestures, keys & mouse to actions	Window management by gesture
Trackpad gestures	Yes → any action	Yes → window & app actions
Keyboard shortcuts as triggers	Yes	No (preset snap hotkeys only)
Mouse buttons as triggers	Yes	No (runs the same gestures on a Magic Mouse)
Magic Mouse gestures	2-finger tap & swipe	Yes (for window snapping)
Window snapping	Yes, as an action	Yes — its specialty (grids, resize, Spaces & displays)
Run Shortcuts, launch apps, run scripts	Yes	No
Learning curve	Minimal	Minimal (zero-config)
Subscription	No	No (one-time; also on Setapp)
Try before you buy	14-day refund	14-day trial
macOS	26+	10.13+

What Swish is best at

Best for: managing windows by swiping and pinching on the title bar.

Swish is a polished, single-purpose gem. Roughly thirty built-in gestures live on the window title bar, the Dock, and the menu bar: swipe to snap a window to a 2×2, 3×2, or 3×3 grid, pinch out to fullscreen and in to quit, swipe down to minimize, drag a divider to resize two adjacent windows at once, and move windows between Spaces and displays. It's deliberately zero-config — you toggle gestures on or off and add modifier keys, but you don't wire up your own gesture-to-action rules. It's a one-time $16 for two Macs (also on Setapp), runs on macOS 10.13 and later, and works with the Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse. If what you want is the best window management on a trackpad, Swish does that better than GestureCraft's single snap action, and this page won't talk you out of it.

What GestureCraft does differently

Best for: mapping trackpad gestures, keyboard shortcuts, and mouse buttons to a broad set of actions. GestureCraft isn't a window manager — it's a mapper. It takes three input surfaces — trackpad gestures, keyboard shortcuts, and mouse buttons — and runs whatever action you assign: run a Shortcut, launch or switch to an app, type a keystroke or a whole sequence, run a script, or snap a window. A rule reads like a sentence: when I do a two-finger swipe, run a Shortcut, in every app or just one. Where Swish gives you a fixed, deep set of window gestures, GestureCraft gives you an open-ended set of actions across all three surfaces — window snapping is one of them, not the whole app. It's native and notarized for macOS 26, event-driven so it sits at near-zero idle CPU, keeps no account, and does its work on your Mac. It's a one-time $7.99 with free updates on up to three Macs and a 14-day money-back guarantee.

They solve different problems

This is the honest heart of the comparison: Swish and GestureCraft overlap only where trackpad gestures and window snapping meet. Swish takes that overlap and goes deep — it's the better tool if your goal is to arrange windows quickly by gesture. GestureCraft takes it wide — it's the better tool if window snapping is just one thing you want, alongside launching apps, running Shortcuts and scripts, typing keystroke sequences, and doing all of that from a key or a mouse button as well as a gesture. Neither replaces the other cleanly. Some people run both: Swish for windows, GestureCraft for everything else.

Price

Both are one-time purchases with no subscription: GestureCraft is $7.99 once for up to three Macs; Swish is $16 once for two Macs, or included in a Setapp subscription. GestureCraft is cheaper, but since they do different jobs, price isn't the real decision — the job is. Pay for the one that matches what you're trying to do.

Which should you pick?

• You mainly want to snap, resize, and move windows by trackpad gesture → Swish (or the free Rectangle for keyboard-driven snapping).
• You're on an older Mac (macOS 10.13 through 15) → Swish; GestureCraft requires macOS 26.
• You want to map gestures, keys, and mouse buttons to Shortcuts, app launches, and scripts, with window snapping as one action → GestureCraft.
• You want both — deep window gestures and general mapping → run Swish and GestureCraft together; they don't conflict.

Comparing more tools? See the full roundup of Mac gesture and input apps, or the GestureCraft vs BetterTouchTool head-to-head.