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SizeUp VS i3-gaps

Compare SizeUp VS i3-gaps and see what are their differences

SizeUp logo SizeUp

SizeUp allows you to quickly resize and position your windows with keyboard shortcuts or a handy menu bar icon. Arranging windows on Mac OS X is tedious and imprecise.

i3-gaps logo i3-gaps

i3-gaps is a fork of i3wm, a tiling window manager for X11.
  • SizeUp Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-07-24
  • i3-gaps Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-14

SizeUp videos

SizeUp for Mac OS X by Irradiated Software

i3-gaps videos

What's On My Linux Laptop? Jan '18 [arch + i3-gaps]

More videos:

  • Review - i3-gaps Setup (Nearing Perfection; August 2017)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to SizeUp and i3-gaps)
Window Manager
69 69%
31% 31
Productivity
100 100%
0% 0
Linux
0 0%
100% 100
OSX Tools
100 100%
0% 0

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing SizeUp and i3-gaps, you can also consider the following products

Moom - Move your mouse over the green zoom button in any window, and Moom's mouse control overlay will appear (as seen in the above animation).

i3 - A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

Hammerspoon - This is a tool for powerful automation of OS X.

dwm - dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

Spectacle App - Move and resize windows with ease.

Xmonad - xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.