What’s New in Rectangle: Recent Features You Might Have Missed

Rectangle app updates frequently, and its release notes are easy to miss if you’re not specifically watching the GitHub repository. This covers what’s actually shipped in recent versions, verified against the project’s own release history rather than a summary written from memory — useful if you installed Rectangle mac a while ago and haven’t checked what’s changed since.

v0.96: corner behavior and a security audit

Per the release notes for v0.96, the latest version at the time of writing:

• Fixed-size windows now have a configurable corner behavior. For windows that can’t freely resize (some utility panels and fixed-dimension apps), actions that would normally result in a corner position can now be set to actually snap to that corner, rather than being centered within the proposed area — a small but specific fix for a category of app that previously behaved inconsistently with Rectangle app‘s corner actions.
• A documented security audit, described in the release notes as pinning the MASShortcut dependency, confirming URL task handling, and hardening config auto-load behavior. This is a concrete, dated instance of the kind of security maintenance referenced in Rectangle app‘s broader SECURITY.md policy — not just a general claim, but a specific audited change landing in a specific release.
• Fixes for false-positive overlap detection on half and third actions, and an added overlap offset option for grid position cycling.
• Missing SF Symbol icons added to menu items, and an updated Korean translation.

v0.95: finer grid positions and numbered display targeting

The prior release added two capabilities with no equivalent in earlier versions:

• Ninths (3×3), twelfths (3×4), and sixteenths (4×4) grid positions, each with a cycling mode — a substantial expansion beyond the halves/quarters/thirds/sixths/eighths/ninths catalog covered in Rectangle app‘s standard action list, aimed at very large or ultrawide displays where even ninths can feel too coarse.
• Move window to a specific display by number, rather than only being able to step to the next or previous display in sequence. This directly addresses the non-intuitive display-ordering behavior that’s shown up in multi-monitor bug reports — being able to target a display by its number sidesteps the ordering logic entirely rather than depending on it.
• A fix for drag-to-screen-edge snapping not working when Notification Center’s notifications were visible on screen — a narrow but real interaction between two separate pieces of macOS UI competing for the same screen edge.

Earlier notable additions worth knowing about if you’re on an old version

Looking further back through the release history, several features landed that are easy to have missed if you installed Rectangle once and never revisited its changelog:

• Haptic feedback support for window snapping (v0.77) — a physical trackpad click sensation when a snap action completes, for Macs with Force Touch trackpads.
• Double/halve the width or height of a window (v0.77) — additional resize actions beyond the standard Make Larger/Make Smaller increments.
• A documented list of apps with known drag-to-snap issues, specifically calling out Adobe Illustrator and After Effects (v0.77) — useful confirmation if you’ve had trouble with Rectangle’s drag snapping in either app specifically, since it’s an acknowledged, named limitation rather than a misconfiguration on your end.
• A separate gap setting for notched displays (v0.80) — relevant if you’re on a MacBook with the display notch and wanted tiled window gaps to account for it specifically rather than using the same margin as a non-notched screen.
• Title bar tab group support (v0.80).
• Todo Mode (introduced around v0.66) — a distinct feature from standard window tiling, letting Rectangle manage a sidebar-style todo list interaction; worth exploring in Settings if you’ve never noticed it.
• A “centerProminently” command (v0.75) — an additional centering action beyond the standard Center action, for windows where simple centering doesn’t produce the desired prominence on screen.
• A fix for Stage Manager positioning on right-to-left (RTL) languages (v0.77) — relevant if you use Rectangle with an RTL-language system locale alongside Stage Manager.

How to check what version you’re running, and what’s new since

1. Open Rectangle’s menu bar icon and hold Option — the “About” item becomes View Logging, but the standard About screen (without holding Option) shows your current version number.
2. Compare against the GitHub Releases page, which lists every version in order with its specific changes, most recent first.
3. If you’re several versions behind, read through each release’s notes between your version and the latest — feature and bug-fix additions are cumulative, and a change several versions back may be exactly what fixes an issue you’ve been working around.

Why this matters beyond curiosity

A specific, recurring pattern in this changelog is worth internalizing: reported bugs get fixed in named, dated releases, and workarounds people post in forums or old blog posts for “known” Rectangle limitations often predate a fix that’s since shipped. Before assuming a limitation is permanent — a specific app’s drag-to-snap behavior, a multi-monitor ordering quirk, a missing grid density — check whether a recent release has already addressed it, rather than relying on an outdated troubleshooting thread.