Umbriel Alternatives

Apps similar to Umbriel include Hyprland, which is free and open source. Other options are niri, i3, Sway and Openbox. There's no shortage of Window Managers like Umbriel, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  1. Polonium icon
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    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 type

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Wayland
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    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

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  3. PyTyle icon
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    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

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. Bluetile icon
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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

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. Sawfish icon
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    Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
    • Window Manager
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  6.  1 like

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  7. Konveyor icon
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    Scrolling column tiling for KDE Plasma.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • New

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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  8. Cardboard is a unique, scrollable tiling Wayland compositor designed with laptops in mind. Based on wlroots.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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    A scrollable, tiling window manager for MacOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. OmniWM icon
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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

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. Cocoa-Way icon
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    Native macOS Wayland compositor in Rust using Smithay, providing seamless Linux app streaming and display with OpenGL rendering, HiDPI Retina support, hardware acceleration, polished UI, server-side decorations, direct Wayland protocol, and zero VM overhead.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Wayland
    • Homebrew
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