Amethyst Alternatives

Apps similar to Amethyst include Hyprland, which is free and open source. Other options are Rectangle, niri, Sway and i3. There's no shortage of Window Managers like Amethyst, with more than 100 alternatives for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  1. Cocoa-Way icon
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    Native macOS Wayland compositor in Rust using Smithay, providing seamless Linux app streaming and display with OpenGL rendering, HiDPI Retina support, hardware acceleration, polished UI, server-side decorations, direct Wayland protocol, and zero VM overhead.

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    • Mac
    • Homebrew
    • Wayland
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  2. Konveyor icon
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    Scrolling column tiling for KDE Plasma.

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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    Wio is a Wayland compositor for Linux & FreeBSD which has a similar look & feel to plan9's rio.

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    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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    Window Tiling For The Win (wtftw) is a tiling window manager written in Rust.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5. MagmaWM icon
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    A versatile and customizable window manager / Wayland compositor, currently in development and actively seeking contributions from the community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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    A Wayland compositor.

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    • Linux
    • Rust
    • Wayland
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  7. yashiki icon
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    macOS tiling window manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  8. PaperWM icon
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    PaperWM is an experimental Gnome Shell extension providing scrollable tiling of windows and per monitor workspaces. It's inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers. Supports Gnome Shell 3.28 and 3.30 on X11 and wayland.

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    • Linux
    • GNOME
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  9. Xlambda icon
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    Xlambda is an X window manager that is extensible in Guile.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  10. strataWM icon
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    Strata is a cutting-edge, robust and sleek Wayland compositor written in Rust using the Smithay library. It is designed to be minimal and flexible yet customizable. Strata is configured in Lua, a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language.

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    • Wayland
    • Linux
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  11. An open source alternative to Divvy for macOS. Press a shortcut, a grid appears, drag across the cells you want, and the window snaps there. Save a region as a preset and it becomes a one-keystroke snap.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Homebrew
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    Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM. While it is not a drop-in replacement for StumpWM, StumpWM users should be very comfortable with Mahogany. Its planned features are:

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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