Maui Shell Alternatives

Maui Shell is described as 'Convergent shell for desktops, tablets, and phones' and is a desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Maui Shell for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Linux Mobile apps. The best Maui Shell alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Maui Shell are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and Hyprland.

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Maui Shell alternatives page was last updated Oct 3, 2025

Lumina Desktop Environment
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Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Desktop Environment
Platforms
Linux
BSD
PC-BSD
Is this a good alternative to Maui Shell?
UKUI
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UKUI is a lightweight desktop environment based on pluggable framework for Linux and other Unix-like Distributions. It is developed using GTK and Qt.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Desktop Environment
Origin
China
Platforms
Linux
Ubuntu Kylin
+2
Is UKUI a good alternative to Maui Shell?
Elokab
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Elokab Desktop Environment is an open-source independent desktop environment for Linux which uses QT libraries like KDE Plasma .
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Desktop Environment
Platforms
Linux
+2
Is Elokab a good alternative to Maui Shell?
doWM
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doWM is a beautiful floating and tiling window manager for X11 completely written in golang.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
X11
Linux
BSD
+6
Is doWM a good alternative to Maui Shell?
Moksha
3 likes
Fork of Enlightenment version 17 (commonly called E17) used as the main desktop environment on Bodhi Linux
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Desktop Environment
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
Is Moksha a good alternative to Maui Shell?
Bluetile
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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
Application type
Window Manager
Origin
Germany
EU
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
Is Bluetile a good alternative to Maui Shell?
xfdashboard
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xfdashboard provides a GNOME shell dashboard like interface for use with the Xfce desktop. It can be configured to run to any keyboard shortcut and when executed provides an overview of applications...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
+2
Is xfdashboard a good alternative to Maui Shell?
Whim
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Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Window Manager
Origin
Sweden
EU
Platforms
Windows
Is Whim a good alternative to Maui Shell?
Cortile
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Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support for Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfwm, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and other EWMH compliant window managers using the X11 window system.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
Linux
Is Cortile a good alternative to Maui Shell?
FyneDesk
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FyneDesk is an easy to use Linux/Unix desktop environment following material design. It is built using the Fyne toolkit and is designed to be easy to use as well as easy to develop. We use the Go language and welcome any contributions or feedback for the project.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Desktop Environment
Platforms
Linux
Go (Programming Language)
Is FyneDesk a good alternative to Maui Shell?