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A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

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A tiling window manager for macOS
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    2023-07-26
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  • Demo - yabai macOS Tiling Window Manager Demonstration

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Category Popularity

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Amethyst

Window Manager
92 92%
Window Manager
8% 8
OSX Tools
91 91%
OSX Tools
9% 9
Mac Tools
91 91%
Mac Tools
9% 9
Productivity
80 80%
Productivity
20% 20

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Amethyst Reviews

Best 6 Mac Window Managers
Until Apple brings better window management to Macs, these third-party tools are the best way to improve organization and productivity. Most of them let you snap windows into position by dragging them to the edge of your display—similar to the window snapping found in Microsoft Windows. But others, like Amethyst, Mosaic, and Moom, offer some interesting alternatives....
Source: mackeeper.com
The 6 Best Mac Window Management Tools
If you don't like to drag and drop windows to arrange them all the time, you should try Amethyst. Amethyst has predefined layouts that you can cycle through a keyboard shortcut, which is, by default, Option + Shift + Space bar.
Source: www.makeuseof.com

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.

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 / 3 months ago
  • Is there an app that does this Windows feature?
    Want something free that's better than tiling on Windows? Yabai. Source: 5 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 / 7 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 / 11 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 / 11 months ago
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Amethyst mentions (0)

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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

Magnet Window Manager - Magnet Developers

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).

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.

Mizage Divvy - Divvy is an entirely new way of managing your workspace.

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