# Scenes for Mac

Canonical page: https://macbase.app/apps/scenes

> One keypress switches your whole Mac between kinds of work

- Price: $4.99
- Requires: macOS 15 Sequoia or later
- Languages: English
- Apple silicon: runs natively
- Notarized by Apple: yes
- Verified on MacBase: yes
- Developer: Rashem Pandit
- Categories: [Window Management](https://macbase.app/categories/window-management), [Productivity](https://macbase.app/categories/productivity), [Focus & Breaks](https://macbase.app/categories/focus-breaks)

## About

Switching from coding to email to design shouldn't mean reopening apps, hunting for tabs and dragging windows back into place every time.

Scenes organizes your Mac around the kinds of work you do, like Coding, Marketing, Research, Design, Admin etc. Hold ⌃ and tap Tab, pick a Scene, and its apps, windows, browser tabs, documents, wallpaper and Focus come back exactly as you left them. Everything else is put away, not closed.

• Layouts are remembered per display setup, so your laptop layout never overwrites your desk layout.
• Put a Scene to sleep to quit its apps and free memory. Wake it and everything returns in place.
• Leave a note for your next visit. It's waiting under the menu bar.
• The Scenes dock keeps each Scene's apps and sites together, holds notifications from other Scenes until you're back, and asks before you leave a Scene.
• With Apple Intelligence on macOS 26, it sorts new sites and apps into the Scene they fit and spots notifications that can't wait. It all runs on your Mac.

Tabs come back in Safari, Chrome, Arc, Dia, Brave, Edge and Vivaldi. No account, no analytics. One-time purchase for one Mac, with a 7-day refund.

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later.

## An alternative to

- [Moom](https://macbase.app/alternatives/moom): 4 alternatives on MacBase
- [Rectangle](https://macbase.app/alternatives/rectangle): 6 alternatives on MacBase

## Get it

- Website: https://scenesmac.com/?ref=macbase

Listed by [Rashem Pandit](https://macbase.app/@rashempandit48).

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