# AltDrag

5 Hacker News commenters recommended AltDrag and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a free Windows tool for moving and resizing windows with Alt and mouse drag, and say it has worked reliably for years.

## Why people recommend it

- Free and works reliably for years (1 comments): "Has worked fine for years." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433190))
- Long-established alternative to other tools (1 comments): "they've all been around for over a decade" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486565))
- Found it as a replacement (1 comments): "ended up finding AltDrag thankfully" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998249))
- Named as the Windows option (1 comments): "For Windows there is AltDrag or the AltSnap fork." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311917))

## What people warn about

- Does not work with display scaling (1 comments): "Altdrag doesn't work with scaling and is missing some other nice to haves" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000332))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [IceWM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/icewm.md): 10 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AltDrag", https://hackerapproved.com/p/altdrag/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).