# Seam for Mac

> Seam is a Mac menu bar app, designed and built by Brandon Holcombe of H Creative, that files Finder drags into the right folder and arranges windows in grids you design. It's free to try for 14 days, then a one-time $9.99 unlock on the Mac App Store. It needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

## Filing files

- Drag files from Finder toward Seam's icon in the menu bar. The drop-down opens with your folders, the likely one first, and a drop moves the files there.
- Rules pick the likely folder from a file's type, extension, name, source folder, or whether it's a screenshot, and can file into year or year-and-month subfolders. Seam never reads what's inside a file.
- Seam also files from Finder's right-click menu, the Shortcuts app, and Sort Desktop.
- Every move can be undone from the drop-down or the History window. Seam never deletes files; a file it replaces goes to the Trash.

## Arranging windows

- The drop-down moves the front window into a cell of your grid, to the left or right half, to fill the screen, or to the center.
- Hold Shift while dragging a window to a screen edge, or to another window's edge, to dock it. Without Shift, nothing snaps. Drag the gap between two docked windows to resize both.
- Hold Option while dragging to drop a window into a grid cell; Option-Command shows a 4 × 4 grid and Option-Shift a 6 × 6 grid.
- Build grids in Settings › Layout: drag dividers in from an edge, or Option-click a cell to split it. Seam names each grid by its shape, such as "Split third, 6-item grid."
- Keyboard shortcuts you set move the front window to halves, quarters, thirds, the center, the full screen, or the next display.

## Layouts

- Save where every open window sits as one of six layouts, and restore one from the drop-down, Control-Option-1 to 6, the Shortcuts app, or a seam://view/<n> link.

## Price and privacy

- Free for 14 days, then $9.99 once, with no subscription. Family Sharing is on. Undo, History, and Settings keep working after the trial.
- Seam collects no data and makes no network connections of its own. It doesn't read window titles, file contents, or the clipboard, and doesn't monitor typing.

## About the author

Seam is designed and built by Brandon Holcombe, a product designer and design engineer in Sonoma County, California, who publishes through his studio, H Creative. He has shipped web, mobile, and AI-powered products for more than 25 years, doing both the design and the front-end code. His work has served millions of users, and more than 12 health systems run software he designed. His focus is product strategy, UX and UI design, design systems, front-end engineering in React, and AI product design.

- Portfolio and writing: https://wellcrafted.pro
- About: https://wellcrafted.pro/about
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brandonholcombe

## Pages

- [Home](https://seamformac.com/): what Seam does, with a working demo
- [Support](https://seamformac.com/support/): permissions, window moves, layouts, unlocking Seam, and contact
- [Privacy policy](https://seamformac.com/privacy/)
- Support email: support@seamformac.com