Short answer
Casement gives a Mac the Windows habits switchers miss: a layout picker you drop windows into, an Option-Tab switcher that lists individual windows, a list of an app's windows in the Dock, and one Dock icon per Chrome profile. Everything except the Chrome profile icons is free.
What maps to what
| On Windows | On a Mac with Casement |
|---|---|
| Snap layouts | Drag-to-top layout picker |
| Alt-Tab | ⌥Tab window switcher |
| Taskbar window previews | Hover an app in the Dock for its window list |
| Pinned browser profiles | A Dock icon per Chrome profile |
| Win+Shift+arrows | ⌃⌥ arrows |
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The two-week list
- Week one: layouts and Option-Tab. These carry most of the muscle memory.
- Week two: Dock window lists and Chrome profile icons.
- Also learn ⌘ in place of Ctrl, and ⌘ ` for windows of the same app.
What Casement does not do
It does not add a taskbar, a Start menu or Windows-style menus. It is a small set of window behaviours, with the rest of macOS left alone.
Questions people ask
Does it change the look of macOS?
No. Menus and windows look the same; it adds behaviour only.
Try Casement
Casement is a menu-bar app for Mac that puts each Chrome profile in the Dock as its own icon and adds snap layouts, hover-to-focus, a window switcher, Dock window lists, a drop shelf and display controls..