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yabai VS Mas CLI

Compare yabai VS Mas CLI and see what are their differences

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A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

Mas CLI logo Mas CLI

Mac App Store command line interface
  • yabai Landing page
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    2023-07-26
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    2023-08-03

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  • Demo - yabai macOS Tiling Window Manager Demonstration

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to yabai and Mas CLI)
Window Manager
92 92%
8% 8
OSX Tools
100 100%
0% 0
Monitoring Tools
0 0%
100% 100
Mac Tools
90 90%
10% 10

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, yabai seems to be a lot more popular than Mas CLI. While we know about 132 links to yabai, we've tracked only 13 mentions of Mas CLI. 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 / 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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Mas CLI mentions (13)

  • New MacBook Setup
    One cute trick I've found is that you can install mas[0] (mac app store cli) and then have mas install things from the app store for you[1]. also, at least some system prefs can be set via the defaults util[2]. [0]: https://github.com/mas-cli/mas [2]: https://github.com/stephen/dotfiles/blob/master/install.sh#L.... - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago
  • What are your New Build essentials?
    I have a script that installs Homebrew and App Store CLI. Then it automatically installs most of the apps I need. I use homebrew to create an up to date list for this script. Source: 12 months ago
  • Boomer Wants to Learn Mac
    Command Line Tools: iTerm 2 alternative to the default Terminal Homebrew Mas Homebrew bundle. Source: about 1 year ago
  • How to easily migrate Homebrew formulas to another MacBook?
    I mainly use the Homebrew to manage almost every app or program, even apps on the App Store using mas. It becomes a bit of a pain when I set up a new MacBook because it takes time for me to look for the list of the apps and programs on my main MacBook and install one them by one on my new MacBook. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
  • Questions about MacOS
    Most of my workflow could replicated under Mac. For the "horrible" window management I use amethyst (auto tiling) and Magnet (windows like) for search I use raycast and for software management I do use the cli with homebrew, mas and ports. The cool thing with homebrew cask you can install all programms from the web that aren't in the App Store and the App Store apps will be updated via mas. You can even update... Source: over 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

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

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

Homebrew - The missing package manager for 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).

Karabiner - Karabiner, previously called KeyRemap4MacBook, is a very powerful keyboard remapper for Mac OS X.

Magnet Window Manager - Magnet Developers

Duti - duti is a command-line utility capable of setting default applications for various document types on macOS, using Apple's Uniform Type Identifiers (UTI). It's the CLI analog to RCDefaultApps and SwiftDefaultApps