Release Notes
What's new in each version of Panelet.
Version 0.2.7
- Your workspaces remember each monitor setup. The laptop on its own, the laptop plus your desk display, the lid closed with two externals — each arrangement gets its own remembered position, so moving between them stops shuffling your workspaces around.
- Unplug a display and nothing is stranded. A workspace whose display disappears comes back onto one that’s still connected and re-tiles there — and the position it had on the display you unplugged is kept, not overwritten, so it’s still there when you plug back in.
- Plug it back in and the workspace comes with you. When macOS returns your windows to the display that came back, Panelet follows them instead of leaving its frame behind on the laptop. If your windows didn’t come back on their own, Panelet offers to move the group home rather than doing it behind your back.
- No more stray divider lines. After waking, switching Spaces, or leaving fullscreen, a workspace’s divider could stay drawn across an unrelated window until you clicked somewhere. Fixed.
Version 0.2.6
- Run your workspaces from anywhere. Panelet now answers panelet:// links, so Raycast, Shortcuts, Alfred or a one-line script can show, hide, toggle or summon a workspace — and you can put any keyboard shortcut you like in front of them. Settings → Advanced lists the links to copy.
- Starts with your Mac. A new “Launch Panelet at login” switch in Settings → General.
- Your windows always come back. If Panelet is quit — or crashes — while a workspace is hidden, the apps it hid are brought back instead of staying invisible.
- The menu bar shows what’s live. A tick next to every workspace that’s currently up, and a plain “Stage Manager is on — tiling paused” line when that’s why nothing tiled.
- Stage Manager gets out of the way faster. Turn it on and Panelet’s bars step aside on their own, instead of lingering over the desktop until you moved the mouse.
- Buying a license no longer means hunting for the website — it’s one click from the app.
Version 0.2.5
- Plays nicely with Stage Manager. When Stage Manager is on, Panelet no longer tugs your windows back and forth with it — it tells you a workspace can’t be tiled while Stage Manager is running and gives you a one-click Retry once you turn it off, then re-tiles on its own. Its own bars step out of the way so nothing overlays the Stage Manager desktop.
- Apps that change their identity now reconnect automatically. When an app you’d added to a workspace switches its internal identifier under a new version — as ChatGPT’s desktop app did in its recent rebuild — Panelet re-links it on the next launch instead of leaving its pane empty. No need to remove and re-add it.
Version 0.2.4
- Plays nicely with fullscreen. When an app in a workspace is in macOS fullscreen, Panelet no longer fights it or quietly leaves an empty slot — it tells you the window is in fullscreen and gives you a one-click Retry once you exit. Leave fullscreen and the workspace re-tiles on its own.
- Fixed: a stray divider line could be drawn over an app while it was in fullscreen. It no longer shows up on the fullscreen space.
- Find your keyboard shortcuts. Settings now lists them all — show a workspace (⌥⌘1–9), hide it (⌥⌘H), bring it to your display (⌥⌘B), move focus between apps (⌃⌘← / ⌃⌘→), and zoom the focused app (⌃⌘↩) — and the focus and zoom shortcuts now appear in the menu bar too.
- Panelet’s version now shows in Settings, so it’s easy to include when you report something.
- A friendlier first run. The first time you open a workspace, a short tips card points out how to move it, resize the split, and use the keyboard shortcuts — and the welcome guide now has a shortcuts page.
Version 0.2.3
- Document apps now tile properly. Apps that open a file picker when they launch — Pages, Numbers, Preview — no longer show an error and get left out. Panelet waits for the real document window and drops it into its pane the moment you pick a file.
- Reset Workspace: one click returns a workspace to a clean default — maximized on the current display with an even split. A quick way out when a layout gets messed up or ends up on the wrong screen. It’s in the workspace’s grip menu, and it leaves any layout you saved untouched.
- Quit Apps: quit every app in a workspace at once, with a confirmation, from the workspace menu. The workspace itself stays, so you can reopen it whenever you like.
- Moving a workspace to another display — or across a display boundary — now keeps its windows where you put them, instead of snapping them back onto one screen.
Version 0.2.2
- Keyboard controls for your panes: press ⌃⌘← / ⌃⌘→ to move focus between the apps in a workspace, and ⌃⌘↩ to zoom the focused app to fill the whole workspace — press again to drop back to the split. While zoomed, ⌃⌘← / ⌃⌘→ moves the zoom from app to app.
- A control center for each workspace: hover the top edge and open the grip menu to focus a pane, zoom it, maximize, restore or save the layout, and move the workspace to another display — all from the workspace itself.
- Fix: clicking back into a workspace now reliably brings the whole group forward — including an app you’d hidden — instead of occasionally leaving one behind.
Version 0.2.1
- The move bar no longer covers your app’s own controls. Hovering the top of a workspace now shows a small centered grip instead of a full-width bar, and clicks pass through everywhere else — so your app’s own tabs, toolbar, and menus stay clickable. The grip also lingers a moment after your pointer leaves, so it’s easy to grab.
- Windows an app opens on top of a workspace now float free. When a workspace app opens another window — a second browser window, or a tool it launches — Panelet steps its divider and chrome aside so that window behaves as an independent window, instead of sitting under the workspace’s split line.
Version 0.2.0
- Resizable workspaces: drag the divider between apps to resize them together. While you drag you get a clean icon preview instead of laggy windows, and the apps snap into place the moment you let go.
- Apps now fill the whole workspace — the old header bar is gone. Hover the top edge to reveal a slim frosted bar for moving the workspace, with a menu for Maximize, Hide, and Move to another display.
- Run several workspaces at once. Each keeps its own layout and position, and clicking any app brings its whole workspace to the front.
- New visual workspace builder: “New Workspace” opens a gallery of layouts with live previews — pick one, then assign an app to each pane.
- Four new three-app layouts — 2 Top / 1 Bottom, 1 Top / 2 Bottom, 2 Left / 1 Right, and 1 Left / 2 Right — alongside the 2 × 2 grid for four apps and the classic left / right and top / bottom splits for two.
- First-run guide: a step-by-step welcome walks you through granting Accessibility (it detects the grant live) and building your first workspace. Reopen it anytime from the menu bar’s “Welcome to Panelet.”
- Simpler permissions: Accessibility now shows a single macOS prompt, with the guided help moved into the welcome guide.
- Cleaner look: tighter, opaque gaps between apps, so the gutters no longer show the window behind your workspace.
- Upgrading from an earlier version? Layouts now tile a fixed number of apps — 2 for a left/right or top/bottom split, 3 for the three-app layouts, and 4 for the 2 × 2 grid. If an existing workspace has a different number of apps (for example an older 3- or 4-app left/right or top/bottom split), Panelet will ask you to open Settings and adjust it — add or remove apps, or switch to a matching layout — before it can tile it.
Version 0.1.3
- Top / bottom split workspaces now resize by dragging a window edge — the other app follows, just like left / right splits
Version 0.1.2
- Automatic updates — new versions now install with one click
- New appearance setting: System, Light, or Dark
- Slimmer workspace header — narrower, with its controls moved into the menu bar
- Smoother dragging — fixed the stutter and the snap-back when you release
- Faster and lighter — smaller stored data and a more efficient menu refresh
Version 0.1.1
- First Early Access release of Panelet
- Two-app workspaces: show, hide, move, and restore them together
- 7-day free trial