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SMBAct logo SMBAct

Cross-platform window manager and switcher.

yabai logo yabai

A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
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    2023-07-26

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Yabai Demonstration

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  • Demo - yabai macOS Tiling Window Manager Demonstration

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to SMBAct and yabai)

SMBAct

yabai

Window Manager
6 6%
Window Manager
94% 94
Mac Tools
9 9%
Mac Tools
91% 91
OSX Tools
6 6%
OSX Tools
94% 94
Mac
100 100%
Mac
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, yabai seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 132 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

SMBAct mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of SMBAct yet. Tracking of SMBAct recommendations started around Mar 2024.

yabai mentions (132)

  • Ask HN: Best Hacks for a Ultrawide Monitor?
    I have a 49 inch CRG9 and the best recommendation for window management is Yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai). Yabai is a greedy window management solution that tries to fit opened applications in given space and skhd let's you easily jump between those using keyboard shortcuts. This has massively improved my ultrawide experience. Only disclaimer is, configuring yabai has a slight learning curve. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • Is there an app that does this Windows feature?
    Want something free that's better than tiling on Windows? Yabai. Source: 6 months ago
  • macOS Containers v0.0.1
    SIP is a feature that protects you from malicious actors with root (admin) access on your device. After they've encrypted your photos and drives and changed your passwords, it prevents them from making your machine unbootable by deleting or altering system binaries. As a side effect of this protection, you give up certain freedoms to customize your system. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
  • Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
    This is disproven by the fact that Yabai [1] can instantly swap spaces with SIP disabled. [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
  • Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
    I feel the same way. I would much prefer no animation at all, and an instant transition to another space. Apparently this is possible with [yabai](https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai), but it requires disabling system integrity protection which I am personally uncomfortable with. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing SMBAct and yabai, you can also consider the following products

Rectangle - Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.

AltTab - Windows alt-tab on macOS

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).

Quicktab - Beautiful chrome new tab replacement.

Magnet Window Manager - Magnet Developers

Compiz - Project information. Maintainer: PS Project Management Team. Driver: Compiz Maintainers. Licence: GNU GPL v2, GNU LGPL v2. 1, MIT / X / Expat Licence.

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