i3 Alternatives for Mac

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   Kera Desktop

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   An easy, pleasant, speedy, and exciting way to use your favorite OS.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Desktop Environment
   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Chrome OS

   

   

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   Xmonad

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   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • X11
   • Haskell

   

   

   

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   yabai

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   yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.

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   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • Norway

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • Norway

   

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   spectrwm

    11 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

   

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   Amethyst

    22 likes

   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.

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   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • United States

   

   

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   Komorebi Window Manager

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   komorebi is a tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows

   

   

   

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   wtftw

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux

   

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    Phoenix

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

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    Rift

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    Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

    

    

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    Tatami

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    Tatami is a macOS workspace manager that combines automatic BSP tiling with virtual workspaces, without disabling SIP. You get the window tiling yabai is known for and fast app-grouping workspaces in one app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Origin

    • South Korea

    Platforms

    • Mac

    • South Korea

    

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    AeroSpace

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    AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

    

    

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    OmniWM

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    OmniWM is a free, open-source, Developer ID-signed and Apple-notarized tiling window manager for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later. It combines Niri-style orientation-aware scrolling containers and Hyprland-style Dwindle BSP layouts, selectable per workspace, with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

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