> Current vs Shoji: window management plus updates for every app, Keep My Place and scrolling full size windows for $7.99 once.

Source: https://www.currentmac.com/current-vs-shoji

# Shoji arranges your windows. Current runs your whole Mac.

Shoji is a tidy tiling app. Current does window management and also keeps every app on your Mac up to date, for less money.

**Short answer:** if you want one app instead of two, pick Current. It arranges your windows, updates your apps, and puts your windows back after an update, at a lower price than Shoji’s listed $14.99.

## At a glance

|  | Current | Shoji |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | $7.99 once for the next 50 licenses | $14.99 listed once per Mac; its buy button showed $10 |
| Updates your other apps | Yes. Sparkle, Electron, Homebrew and App Store apps, plus Homebrew and npm tools | Not mentioned on its homepage |
| Windows return after an update | Yes, with Keep My Place | Not mentioned on its homepage |
| How windows fit | Stay full size in a row that slides, so you are never out of room | 1 to 4 per screen (5 on ultrawide), then extra windows stack |
| Remembers each app’s width | Yes | Not mentioned on its homepage |
| Reopen a set of apps | Projects, one shortcut each (⌃⌥ 1–9) | Setups, labelled beta |
| Languages | English, German, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean | English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese |
| Mac support | macOS 15+, Intel and Apple silicon | macOS 15+ |

## You stop paying for half a solution

A window manager keeps your screen in order. It does nothing about the update alerts that interrupt that order. Current handles both, so the app that tidies your windows is also the app that clears the update prompts.

## Full size beats fitting in

A tiling grid has to shrink windows or stack them once the screen is full. Current’s strip never asks a window to give up space. A new window opens beside the one you are using and nothing else changes size.

## Updates that do not undo your layout

When Current quits an open app to update it, the app’s windows go back where they were. Your arrangement survives the update. Some apps reopen with fewer windows, and those are left as they come back.

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Details about Shoji come from its public website as checked on 9 November 2026 and may have changed. Shoji is the property of its owner. Current is not affiliated with it.