Qtile Alternatives

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

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Qtile alternatives page was last updated Sep 28, 2026

herbstluftwm
5 likes
herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
Linux
BSD
+2
Good alternative?Is herbstluftwm a good alternative to Qtile?
Umbriel
1 like
Umbriel is a Wayland compositor designed for daily use, with scrolling, dwindle, and master layouts, per-output workspaces, window rules, blur, shadows, and fluid animations.
45 Umbriel alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
Good alternative?Is Umbriel a good alternative to Qtile?
LeftWM
3 likes
Left is a tiling window manager written in rust for stability and performance. The core of left is designed to do one thing and one thing well. Be a window manager. Because you probably want more than just a black screen LeftWM is built around the concept of theming.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
Linux
+1
Good alternative?Is LeftWM a good alternative to Qtile?
Ratpoison
5 likes
Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into non-overlapping frames. All windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
Linux
X11
Good alternative?Is Ratpoison a good alternative to Qtile?
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
Window Manager
Platforms
X11
Linux
BSD
+6
Good alternative?Is doWM a good alternative to Qtile?
Pinnacle
1 like
Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built in Rust using Smithay. It's my attempt at creating something like AwesomeWM for Wayland.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
Good alternative?Is Pinnacle a good alternative to Qtile?
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Waybox
1 like
An openbox clone on Wayland (WIP).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Window Manager
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
Openbox
Wayland
W
Good alternative?Is Waybox a good alternative to Qtile?
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
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Window Manager
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
United States
Good alternative?Is miracle-wm a good alternative to Qtile?
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 typeApplication types
Window Manager
Wayland Compositor
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
KDE
Wayland
Good alternative?Is Polonium a good alternative to Qtile?
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dwl
1 like
dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of functionality, and secondarily in terms of philosophy. Like dwm, dwl is:
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Wayland Compositor
Platforms
Linux
Wayland
+5
D
Good alternative?Is dwl a good alternative to Qtile?
PyTyle
1 like
PyTyle is an extremely versatile and extensible tiling manager that is meant to be used on top of EWMH window managers. Its feature set was modeled after the basic tiling features of XMonad.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Window Manager
Platforms
Linux
Good alternative?Is PyTyle a good alternative to Qtile?
Bluetile
8 likes
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
Germany
EU
Good alternative?Is Bluetile a good alternative to Qtile?