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24 alternatives to Tesserac
A spatial alternative to Cmd+Tab for macOS
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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A native macOS tab bar library with split pane support for SwiftUI applications. Features 120fps animations, drag-and-drop tabs, and full keyboard navigation.
Jan 2026 · bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com · its alternatives →
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a tiling window manager for macos. Contribute to acsandmann/rift development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone! I'm Marius Hauken, an indie developer, and I'm excited to share my app: Pie Menu. It offers a fresh way to access your favorite menu bar commands and keyboard shortcuts on macOS. By simply pressing a hotkey you choose during setup, a radial menu appears around your cursor, customized to the current active application. This allows you to quickly select commands without having to remember complex shortcuts across different applications. Pie Menu comes with a library of preprogrammed commands for popular apps, but you can easily add any app on your computer. We've also created an…
2024 · pie-menu.com · its alternatives →
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A keyboard-driven tiling window manager for macOS — tmux/Zellij workflows for any app. - pa/tessera
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I recently switched from a Fedora/GNOME laptop to a MacBook Air. My old setup served me well as a portable workstation, but I’ve started traveling more while working remotely and needed something with similar performance but better battery life. The main thing I missed was a simple taskbar that shows the windows in the current workspace instead of a Dock that mixes everything together. I built boringBar so I would not have to use the Dock. It shows only the windows in the current Space, lets you switch Spaces by scrolling on the bar, and adds a desktop switcher so you can jump…
Apr 2026 · boringbar.app · its alternatives →
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WindowKeys 3.0▲125Hello, I’ve just released version 3.0 of WindowKeys, a small utility for macOS that gives you full control over the native window tiling system introduced in macOS Sequoia. Originally, WindowKeys was built to solve one very specific problem: assigning custom keyboard shortcuts to window tiling actions — especially useful if you use a third-party keyboard that can’t trigger system shortcuts. Over time it evolved beyond just shortcuts, and now 3.0 adds a few frequently requested features: - Move windows between displays (or iPad) - Repeat last tiling action for each app - Redesigned Shortcut…
2025 · apptorium.com · its alternatives →
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Layout switcher▲153It is like Apple's App switcher, but for Layouts on macOS
2022 · layoutswitcher.carrd.co · its alternatives →
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A Tiling Window Manager for windows 10, Inspired by i3wm - McYoloSwagHam/win3wm
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I have been using omarchy on my tower since nearly a year now, shortly after it was released first. I really love the experience I am having with it but I still use my macbook for daly work, so I wanted to recreate a similar experience on it. Thats why I created omacosy, a setup for tiling windows, custom menu bar, some themes from omarchy, focus follows mouse, focus rings around windwos, some mac flavors with trackpad events and a custom mission control overview for your workspaces. I used AeroSpace over yabai for the tiling window manager because I didnt wanted to compromise on SIP which…
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SpacePigeon▲93I switch between a few different “modes” on my Mac every day (work, coding, meetings, personal stuff). Each time I’d end up reopening the same apps and dragging all the windows back into the right Spaces. Super repetitive and honestly kind of annoying. So over the past few weeks I hacked together a small open-source tool called SpacePigeon that basically remembers your whole workspace and puts everything back where it was. Things it can do: Save your current layout (apps + windows + Spaces) Restore it with one click or a hotkey Keep separate presets (like “Work”, “Coding”, “Meetings” etc.)…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, A few weeks ago I randomly decided to build a seamless pattern engine for Swift/SwiftUI projects. I called it Tessera (GitHub link). It’s an open-source framework that lets you generate endlessly repeatable, seam-free patterns from pretty much anything you can build in code: shapes, SF Symbols, emojis, text, custom icons, etc. While working on it, I also built a demo app so developers could see how to use the framework. However, that demo turned out to be so much fun to play with that I decided to turn it into a full app. ## Introducing Tessera Designer Tessera Designer is a Mac…
Dec 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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NotchSpace▲82Turn your Mac notch into an intelligent active workspace
Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Clide ▲93Grid-layout terminal with an AI that drives your shells.
Apr 2026 · clide.app · its alternatives →
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Radial▲98Everything at your cursor in a single gesture
Jan 2026 · radial.appverge.net · its alternatives →
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ExtraBar▲152Hey Hacker News The ones that know me here know that I am a productivity geek. After DockFlow to manage my Dock and ExtraDock, which gives me more space to manage my apps and files, I decided to tackle the macOS big boss: the menu bar. I spend ~40% of my day context-switching between apps — Zoom meetings, Slack channels, Code projects, and Figma designs. My macOS menu bar has too many useless icons I almost never use. So I thought to myself, how can I use this area to improve my workflows? Most solutions (Bartender, Ice) require screen recording permissions, and did not really solve my…
Dec 2025 · extrabar.app · its alternatives →
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Versatile window tiling for X11 with powerful keyboard controls - jakebian/snaptile
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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KiwiDesk▲147Tiling that feels like it shipped with macOS.
Sep 2026 · kiwidesk.kiwicanopy.com · its alternatives →
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Tesseract Core is a command line app + Python SDK that lets scientists and engineers wrap complex scientific and machine learning code into containerized, self-documenting, differentiable functions—making them easier to use, compose, serve, share, and deploy. Its main use case is to build end-to-end differentiable pipelines consisting of wildly different components like physical simulators, geometric operators like differentiable meshers / renderers, generic data transforms, and neural networks. Just installing these heterogeneous components can be a challenge for scientists who simply…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tesseract is one of the largest Open Source OCR (Optical Character Recognition) projects. There is already a Go library for using Tesseract from Go with CGo, called Gosseract. However if you are interested in OCR from Go without C complicating building and cross-compiling, there aren't any other options. Wazero is a Go WASM runtime that doesn't have any CGo dependencies. With Emscripten Tesseract has been compiled to WASM and ran within Wazero. Gogosseract provides a simple API on top of this. This project has been an interesting delve into the world of WASM.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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InfiniDesk▲90InfiniDesk brings multiple virtual desktops to your Mac. Instead of having a single cluttered desktop, make many desktops each with their own layout of file/folder icons, wallpaper and widget visibility. Have a desktop for Work, one for interesting Hacker News links, a fully empty desktop etc. Version 3 of the app (just released) now supports hotkeys to switch desktops in a blink, and also onscreen HUD notifications. Inspired by the Unix Common Desktop Environment of the 1990s, InfiniDesk is the only app that brings multiple desktops (workspaces/identities) to your Mac.
2025 · infinidesk.app · its alternatives →
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