> Updates break tidy Macs. Current arranges your windows, updates your apps and puts your windows back afterwards.

Source: https://www.currentmac.com/blog/window-manager-that-updates-your-apps

# Why your window manager should also update your apps

Updates are what break a tidy Mac. The tool that arranges your windows should know when they are about to be closed.

Published November 9, 2026 · Updated November 9, 2026

Every update to an open app means a quit, a relaunch and windows that come back somewhere else. A separate window manager cannot plan for that, because it does not know the update is coming.

## What changes when one app does both

Current notes where an app’s windows are before it quits the app, installs the verified update, and puts the windows back. If you use the scrolling strip, the app returns to the same column.

Some apps reopen with fewer windows than they had. Current puts back the ones that return.

## One purchase instead of two

Current costs $7.99 once for the next 50 licenses and covers windows, app updates and Homebrew and npm tools.

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