Alternatives

Products that do what tiling windows for MacOSX in less then 200 lines of code does

1. 1AN
   A Native Tiling Window Manager for Windows 10, Inspired by I3wm▲327

   2021 · github.com

2. 2GB
   Grid-based window tiling for X11 with powerful keyboard controls▲69

   2017 · github.com

3. 3HA
   Howm – A Vim-like tiling X11 window manager▲71

   2014 · github.com

4. 4ST
   Stack: tiling WM for Windows▲101

   2017 · losttech.software

5. 5SA
   Sway, a tiling window manager and compositor for Wayland▲163

   2016 · github.com

6. 6OA
   OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired▲6

   Tabs, spotlight-like window finder, borders, etc... High Niri parity

   Dec 2025 · github.com

7. 7MA
   Marathono – A GUI tool for managing long-running processes in macOS▲165

   2016 · marathono.com

8. 8
   Better Window Manager▲233

   A tiny window management app for the Mac

   2015

9. 9PT
   Penc – Trackpad-oriented window manager for macOS▲61

   2018 · dgurkaynak.github.io

10. 10KL
    Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac▲109

    2017 · github.com

11. 11PA
    Phoenix – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript▲153

    2020 · github.com

12. 12
    Dynamic Edge▲80

    The Dynamic Island for Windows

    5d ago · apps.microsoft.com

13. 13HA
    HextEdit – A fast and native hex editor for macOS▲88

    2021 · hextedit.app

14. 14VA
    VEEER – A Lightweight Window Manager for Your OS X▲12

    2018 · veeer.io

15. 15AA
    Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers▲75

    2018 · sephware.com

16. 16
    WindowKeys 3.0▲125

    Your window tiling command center for macOS

    2025

17. 17MW
    My WWDC-inspired project. A Markdown editor for Lion▲75

    2011 · kswizz.com

18. 18MA
    Marta – A fast and minimalistic file manager for macOS▲106

    2017 · marta.yanex.org

19. 19SW
    Snapp – Windows-Like Window Snapping for OS X▲12

    2015 · github.com

20. 20SB
    Sidebar based/tabbed tiling window manager for macOS▲5

    WinMux is an easy to use tiling window manager that makes stacking intuitive and improves visual awareness of workspaces. Does not support multi-monitor yet.

    Apr 2026 · github.com

21. 21GA
    Geeonx a Multiplatform C GUI-Library (Linux, Windows, macOS)▲23

    2019 · geeonx.org

22. 22W2
    Workspaces 2 for Mac: prepare your working environment in seconds▲10

    2020 · apptorium.com

23. 23MS
    MacLayout – Save and restore window layouts on macOS▲5

    Mar 2026 · maclayout.com

24. 24KL
    Keypad Layout, keyboard-driven window manager for macOS▲7

    2021 · github.com

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