Waffle – Native macOS terminal that auto-tiles sessions into a grid

In plain words

Waffle is a native macOS terminal that automatically arranges multiple sessions into a tiled grid layout that scales with the number of open terminals. Instead of manually splitting panes or managing scattered windows, sessions automatically organize themselves—one session fills the screen, two sit side by side, four arrange in a 2x2 grid, and so on. Sessions can be grouped by repository and color-coded, allowing developers to quickly filter and switch between different projects. The grid rebalances whenever terminals are opened or closed, requiring no configuration.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Open a terminal. Open another. They tile themselves. Native macOS terminal built for running ten AI coding agents at once without losing your mind. Free, no tmux, macOS 14+.

The auto-tiling macOS terminal for running coding agents in parallel. Open a terminal, it goes fullscreen. Open a second, it splits 50/50. Four becomes a 2x2 grid. Nine becomes 3x3. You never arrange anything. No more cycling through tabs to find which agent is doing what. Every session is on screen at once. Sessions auto-detect git repos. Each project gets its own colour and tab. Three repos, seven agents, one keystroke to filter. No .tmux.conf. No split commands. No naming sessions. Open Waffle, start working. Built on SwiftTerm , not Electron. Native AppKit, no browser engine. Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Gemini CLI — or just plain zsh. Waffle doesn't care what's running, it just tiles…from waffle.baby

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN. I built Waffle because I kept ending up with 15 terminal windows scattered across three spaces with no idea what was running where. Splitting/merging in iTerm kind of works but it never felt intuitive to me. With that in mind, I built something to suit my workflow: Waffle is a native macOS terminal (Built…

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