Hyprland AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Window Managers

The best Window Manager alternative to Hyprland is niri, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Hyprland and many of them are Window Managers so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Window Manager alternatives to Hyprland are GlazeWM, Wayfire, SwayFX and river.

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  1. niri icon

    niri

     10 likes

    Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.

    77 niri alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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    Comments about niri as an Alternative to Hyprland
    hced
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    The scrolling tiles mechanism is superior.

    Guest
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    Niri's config file is easy to configure and well documented. The combination with DankMaterialShell is excellent. The arrangement of windows on top of an infinite screen is awesome. The overview function is really nice.

    By the way, there is also Mango WC which I haven't tested so far, but looks useful too.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • niri is the most popular Linux alternative to Hyprland.

    • niri is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Hyprland.

    • niri is Free and Open SourceHyprland is also Free and Open Source
    • niri is Privacy focusedHyprland is not according to our users
  2. GlazeWM icon

    GlazeWM

     8 likes

    A tiling window manager for Windows inspired by i3 and Polybar.

    31 GlazeWM alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Rust
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    • GlazeWM is the most popular Windows alternative to Hyprland.

    • GlazeWM is Free and Open SourceHyprland is also Free and Open Source
  4. Wayfire icon

    Wayfire

     7 likes

    Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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  5. SwayFX icon

    SwayFX

     3 likes

    Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
    • Gentoo Linux
    • Fedora
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Sway
    • FreeBSD
    • Wayland
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  6. river icon

    river

     4 likes

    Wayland compositor featuring dynamic tiling and Master&Stack layout, offering configuration through riverctl tool with tag system for window management, customizable with rivertile and user layout generators, allowing flexible workspace setup without traditional workspaces.

    23 river alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. doWM icon

    doWM

     1 like

    doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • X11
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  10. Japokwm icon

    Japokwm

     2 likes

    A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (forked from dwl) that makes it a breeze to create custom layouts with a simple configuration. 🚀

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. miracle-wm

     1 like

    A Wayland compositor based on Mir. It features a tiling window manager at its core, very much in the style of i3 and sway. The intention is to build a compositor that is flashier and more feature-rich than either of those compositors, like swayfx.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
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  13. Vivarium

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

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    • Linux
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  14. Polonium icon

    Polonium

     1 like

    An autotile manager for Plasma 6. An (unofficial) spiritual successor to Bismuth built on KWin 6. The descendant of autotile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
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