Minimum Window Sizes of Mac Apps
I use tiled window managers, and some layouts work better with smaller windows, but not all mac apps can do that so this is a collection of minimum window sizes of different apps to help me find which ones are better suited for my workflow.
I use the following thresholds:
- <= 250 = TINY
- > 250 and <= 400 = SMALL
- > 400 and <= 500 = MEDIUM
- > 500 <= 800 = LARGE
- > 800 = HUGE
Browsers
- Arc: MEDIUM, 470px
- Firefox: MEDIUM, 450px
- Google Chrome: MEDIUM, 500px
- Lagrange: MEDIUM, 425px
- Qutebrowser: TINY, 128px
- Safari: LARGE, 575px
Calendars and Contacts
- Calendar: LARGE, 639px
- Cardhop: SMALL, 350px
- Contacts: MEDIUM, 498px
- Fantastical: MEDIUM, 500px; Day view only, Week (510px), Month (516px), Quarter (524px), and Year (504px) are LARGE, though may vary by toolbar icons visible.
II
Developer Tools
- Console: LARGE, 600px
- Dash: LARGE, 800px
- Hex Fiend: TINY, 173px
- Script Debugger: MEDIUM, 500px
- RapidAPI: LARGE, 660px
- SQLPro Studio: LARGE, 600px
- SF Symbols: MEDIUM, 467px
- Sloth: HUGE, 853px
- Thony: TINY, 73px
- WorldWideWeb: MEDIUM, 480px
Diagramming
- Map: TINY, 116px
- Monodraw: LARGE, 700px
- OmniGraffle: HUGE, 865px
Document and Book Readers
- Adobe Digital Editions: LARGE, 700px
- Books: MEDIUM, 500px; Only when reading, the main window (1000px) is HUGE
- Calibre: TINY, 74px; Only when reading, the main window (570px) is LARGE
- Marked: SMALL, 400px
- Preview: LARGE, 708px
III
File Managers
- Finder: SMALL, 316px; Without sidebar, otherwise MEDIUM at 446px
- Transmission: SMALL, 350px
- Transmit: HUGE, 880px
- VeraCrypt: LARGE, 699px
Home and Automation
- Automator: MEDIUM, 500px
- Home: LARGE, 515px
- Shortcuts: LARGE, 750px
IDEs
- Android Studio: SMALL, 340px; Welcome window (800px) is LARGE
- Max 8: TINY, 118px
- Xcode: HUGE, 960px
IV
Image/3D/Publishing
- Acorn: LARGE, 800px
- Affinity Designer 2: MEDIUM, 500px; Preferences (800px) is LARGE and Account (1078px) is HUGE
- Affinity Photo 2: MEDIUM, 500px; Preferences (800px) is LARGE and Account (1078px) is HUGE
- Affinity Publisher 2: MEDIUM, 500px; Preferences (800px) is LARGE and Account (1078px) is HUGE
- Blender: SMALL, 320px
- Dark Room: HUGE, 900px
- Glyphs Mini: MEDIUM, 450px
- Paintbrush: TINY, 200px; Though it has floating windows
- Photomator: HUGE, 980px
- Photos: LARGE, 750px
- Pixelmator Pro: LARGE, 800px
- Sketch: LARGE, 800px
Instant Messaging / Chat / Social Media
- Adium: TINY, 73px friend list, 200px chat; Some themes scroll at 200px
- Discord: HUGE, 940px
- Facetime: LARGE, 672px
- Ivory: SMALL, 378px
- Keybase: LARGE, 740px
- Last.fm Scrobbler: LARGE, 540px
- Messages: MEDIUM, 434px
- Signal: LARGE, 680px
- Slack: LARGE, 668px
- Telegram: MEDIUM, 380px
- Textual: MEDIUM, 342px
- We: TINY, 74px
V
Marketplaces
- App Store: HUGE, 1000px
- Setapp: HUGE, 1100px
- Steam: HUGE, 1008px
Math
- Calculator: TINY, 232px; Programmer (398px) is SMALL, Scientific (574px) is LARGE
- PCalc: SMALL, 380px
- Numi: SMALL, 310px
- Soulver: LARGE, 730px
Note-taking
- Bear: SMALL, 300px; With Notes (570px) and Tags (752px) it's LARGE
- Notes: MEDIUM, 500px
- Obsidian: TINY, 200px
- Stickies: TINY, 54px
Office Software
- iAPresenter: LARGE, 700px
- Keynote: LARGE, 540px
- Numbers: LARGE, 540px; The new window (760px) is also LARGE
- OmniPlan: LARGE, 740px
- Pages: LARGE, 640px
VI
Media Players
- IINA: SMALL, 286px
- Music: HUGE, 980px
- Odio: HUGE, 1000px
- Play: HUGE, 870px
- Podcasts: HUGE, 1000px
- QuickTime Player: SMALL, 326px
- Swinsian: HUGE, 870px
- Mail: LARGE, 550px; Only in column layout, otherwise 610px
Music Making
- Ableton Live: LARGE, 800px
- Capo: LARGE, 777px
- GarageBand: SMALL, 400px
- Logic Pro: SMALL, 400px
- MuseScore: HUGE, 1050px
- Reason: HUGE, 972px; The Reason companion is 1200px
News Readers / Bookmarks
- NetNewsWire: LARGE, 585px
- News: HUGE, 860px
- Pins: LARGE, 515px
- Reeder: SMALL, 320px
- Unison: LARGE, 800px
VII
Password Managers
- 1password: LARGE, 784px
- Bitwarden: LARGE, 680px
- KeePassX: LARGE, 558px
- Secrets: LARGE, 603px
Task Managers
- Do: TINY, 180px
- Reminders: SMALL, 350px
- Ritmo: TINY, 85px
- Things: SMALL, 400px
Terminal Emulators
- iTerm 2: TINY, 70px; Size depends on font, I got down to 7 columns
- Kitty: TINY, 22px; Size depends on font, I got down to 2 columns
- Terminal: TINY, 190px; Size depends on font, I got down to 20 columns
Text Editors
- Atom: TINY, 73px
- BBEdit: SMALL, 311px
- Byword: SMALL, 350px
- Inky: SMALL, 350px
- Nova: MEDIUM, 480px
- Scrivener: SMALL, 316px
- Sublime Text: TINY, 91px
- TextEdit: TINY, 159px; Can go smaller, but not for very long.
- Ulysses: LARGE, 555px
- Visual Studio Code: SMALL, 400px
VIII
Utilities
- Activity Monitor: LARGE, 740px
- Clock: LARGE, 600px
- CrystalFetch: LARGE, 800px
- DaisyDisk: LARGE, 800px
- Dictionary: SMALL, 400px
- Find My: HUGE, 980px
- Flighty: LARGE, 515px
- Font Book: SMALL, 350px
- Freeform: LARGE, 600px
- GPG Keychain: MEDIUM, 470px
- HP Smart: HUGE, 1024px
- Logitech G Hub: HUGE, 1024px
- Malwarebytes: HUGE, 888px
- Maps: LARGE, 660px
- ObinsKit: HUGE, 1200px
- Parcel: LARGE, 722px
- Photo Booth: LARGE, 600px
- CleanMyMacX: HUGE, 1120px
- Gemini: HUGE, 1152px
- Typeface: MEDIUM, 440px
- Stocks: HUGE, 860px
- Voice Memos: LARGE, 752px
- Weather: HUGE 985px
Video Editing / Streaming
- DaVinci Resolve: HUGE, 1445px
- iMovie: HUGE, 1280px
- OBS: HUGE, 867px
VPN
- NordVPN: HUGE, 902px