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, Sway, niri and Loop - Window Management.

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  2. Penc icon

    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    pekwm

     5 likes

    pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    BentoBox

     3 likes

    BentoBox is a versatile window manager for macOS that enhances your productivity by allowing you to snap windows into customizable zones. Inspired by FancyZones on Windows, BentoBox provides a grid-based approach to organizing your workspace, helping you maintain a clean and...

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    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. WindowTidy icon

    WindowTidy

     5 likes

    Arrange your application windows using nothing but drag and drop! There are no hot-keys to remember or menus to click, just drag and drop a window onto Layout Icon and it will instantly snap to that layout.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Light Pillar Mosaic icon

    Light Pillar Mosaic

     2 likes

    Mosaic allows you to effortlessly resize and re-position windows on your Mac with a simple Drag & Drop, seamlessly integrated into macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • MacPaw Setapp
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  11. V

    Vivarium

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  12. B

    Blackbox WM

     1 like

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  13. Gnome Mutter icon

    Gnome Mutter

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
     
  14. Whim icon

    Whim

     Like

    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 (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  15. Phoenix icon

    Phoenix

     5 likes

    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
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