Restore your world with Moom 4.2

Published: Wednesday 25th June 2025

Moom 4.2 is out today, and it brings as long-desired feature: Saved layouts can now launch the apps used in those layouts; just check the “Launch apps” checkbox on any saved layout. By itself, this feature is mildly interesting, as it won’t help with apps that have multiple windows in a layout—the app will launch, but Moom cannot open the proper number of windows nor restore their contents.

However, macOS can do both of those things, and does so by default as long as you leave “Close windows when quitting an application” disabled—you’ll find it in System Settings > Desktop & Dock, in the Windows section.

Combine Moom’s new app launching ability with macOS’ ability to restore windows and contents, and you’ve got one-click restoration of any saved layout. Though this is probably the most-exciting change in Moom 4.2, there are a number of other changes, including what they hope is a notable improvement in window title matching, which should help insure that restored windows go where they’re supposed to go. This is especially true for multiple browser windows, each with multiple tabs—Moom should now do a much better job of figuring out which one goes where when restoring a layout.