Tiles turns your messy Mac desktop into reusable workspaces

If you juggle multiple monitors and a dozen apps at once, you’ve probably had the thought: “I wish I could get back to that perfect window setup from a few minutes ago.” Tiles, a new macOS app featured on August 29, 2026, is designed to solve exactly that problem by treating your desktop layout as something you can save and reuse.

The app lets you capture your current workspace—every open app, each window’s size and position, and how they’re spread across displays—as a “tile.” You can then restore that layout later with a click, a keyboard shortcut, or via a widget. In practice, that means you can create presets like “Coding,” “Writing,” or “Client Call,” and jump between them instantly instead of dragging windows around every time your context changes.

Tiles lives quietly in the macOS menu bar and is meant to run all day with minimal overhead. It doesn’t replace native tools like window snapping or Mission Control; it sits on top of them as a higher‑level workspace layer. For remote workers who switch modes constantly, creative professionals managing complex screen layouts, or traders and hobbyist investors tracking multiple charts, Tiles offers a pragmatic quality‑of‑life upgrade to the Mac desktop experience.