Jay Alternatives

Apps similar to Jay include Hyprland, which is free and open source. Other options are i3, Sway, Openbox and Fluxbox. Window Managers like Jay are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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Jay alternatives page was last updated Sep 22, 2026

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wio
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Wio is a Wayland compositor for Linux & FreeBSD which has a similar look & feel to plan9's rio.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
Linux
FreeBSD
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Weston
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Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Window Manager
Wayland Compositor
Origin
International
Platforms
Linux
Global
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Konveyor
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Scrolling column tiling for KDE Plasma.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Origin
Thailand
Platforms
Linux
KDE Plasma
Thailand
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strataWM
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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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Window Manager
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Wayland
Linux
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Mahogany
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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:
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Window Manager
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
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StumpWM
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StumpWM is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written and scriptable in Common Lisp. StumpWM attempts to be customizable yet visually minimal. There are no window decorations, no icons, and no buttons.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Origin
International
Platforms
Linux
Global
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