yabai Alternatives

yabai is described as 'Started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to yabai for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Wayland, BSD and Windows apps. The best yabai alternative is Hyprland, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like yabai are Rectangle, niri, Loop - Window Management and SnapZones.

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  2. Vivarium

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  4. Blackbox WM

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    Blackbox is an original window manager, sharing no code with any others. It's designed to be fairly small and minimal, making it particularly suited to less powerful computers. It doesn't support images, other than generated gradients, but it does support multiple...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Gnome Mutter

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    Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.

    68 Gnome Mutter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
     
  7. Whim icon

    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.

    56 Whim alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    Whim screenshot 1
     
  8. Phoenix icon

    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Phoenix screenshot 1
     
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    WMFS²

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    WMFS² is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. WMFS² is a free software distributed under the BSD license. It can be driven from keyboard or mouse and its configuration stands in one text file, easily understandable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. Tuck icon

    Tuck

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    Tuck is a handy menu bar application that allows you to quickly and simply clear multi-window clutter by hiding windows under your screen edges.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. Autumn Window Manager icon

    Autumn Window Manager

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    Autumn is a full customizable window manager for Mac with a built-in IDE for coders to configure everything with JavaScript or TypeScript.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Autumn Window Manager screenshot 1
     
  13. AROW icon

    AROW

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    Arrange, resize, snap, and move windows in OS X with the help of keyboard shortcuts, certain window dragging gestures, or using OS X's window buttons.

    65 AROW alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Snap windows by dragging it to the edge of the screen.
     
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