awesome is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is Loop - Window Management, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to awesome and 15 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to awesome are yabai, Xmonad, Amethyst and spectrwm.
Loop is a macOS app that simplifies window management for you! You can effortlessly choose your window direction using a radial menu triggered by a simple key press, and customize it according to your preferences with personalized colors and settings.
yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.
xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.
Amethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux. Amethyst is written in Objective-C and has configurable shortcuts, multi-monitor support, multiple layouts, and the option to float certain applications.
spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration.
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.
komorebi is a tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above.
Native macOS Wayland Compositor written in Rust using Smithay. Experience seamless Linux app streaming on macOS without XQuartz.
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