Amethyst Windows Alternatives

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

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  1. PyTyle icon
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    PyTyle is an extremely versatile and extensible tiling manager that is meant to be used on top of EWMH window managers. Its feature set was modeled after the basic tiling features of XMonad.

    76 PyTyle alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  2. Multi Dock icon
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    MultiDock is a simple application that allows you to organize frequently used applications, documents and folders using small panels (Dock’s).

    79 Multi Dock alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  3. Bluetile icon
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    Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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  4. Slate icon
     7 likes

    Slate is a window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). Originally written to replace them due to some limitations in how each work, it attempts to overcome them by simply being extremely configurable.

    45 Slate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. WindowTidy icon
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    Arrange your application windows using nothing but drag and drop! There are no hot-keys to remember or menus to click, just drag and drop a window onto Layout Icon and it will instantly snap to that layout.

    69 WindowTidy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. pekwm icon
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    pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. Mosaic allows you to effortlessly resize and re-position windows on your Mac with a simple Drag & Drop, seamlessly integrated into macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • MacPaw Setapp
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  8. Phoenix icon
     4 likes

    Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.

    68 Phoenix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9.  1 like

    Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10.  1 like

    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots, with desktop semantics inspired by xmonad.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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