yabai Alternatives

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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

   

   

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   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

   

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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

   

   

   

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   i3-gaps

    2 likes

   i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11. It is kept up to date with upstream, adding a few additional features such as gaps between windows.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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   Cinch

    24 likes

   Cinch is Aero Snap for Macs- it offers simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as hot zones. Cinching to the left or right edges of the screen will resize the window to fill exactly half the screen, allowing you to easily...

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   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • United States

   

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   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

   

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    Multi Dock

     1 like

    MultiDock is a simple application that allows you to organize frequently used applications, documents and folders using small panels (Dock’s).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Application Launcher

    Origin

    • Ukraine

    Platforms

    • Mac

    • Ukraine

    

    

    

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    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

    

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    Penc

     6 likes

    Penc is a window manager app for macOS designed for use with the trackpad. It lets you use trackpad gestures along with the Command key to move, resize and snap windows to the screen.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

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    Hyperfocused

     1 like

    Apps in the right spot with one click.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

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    Slate

     7 likes

    Slate is a window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). Originally written to replace them due to some limitations in how each work, it attempts to overcome them by simply being extremely configurable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

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    Amethyst Windows

     3 likes

    Automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Window Manager

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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