Window Managers for Mac

View 13 business solutions

Browse free open source Window Managers and projects for Mac below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Window Managers by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

  • Ship Agents Faster Icon
    Ship Agents Faster

    Transform your applications and workflows into powerful agentic systems at global scale.

    Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform lets you rapidly build, scale, govern and optimize production-ready agents grounded in your organization's data. The platform enables developers to build custom or pre-built agents for virtually any use case. New customers get $300 in free credits.
    Get Started Free
  • Earn up to 16% annual interest with Nexo. Icon
    Earn up to 16% annual interest with Nexo.

    More flexibility. More control.

    Generate interest, access liquidity without selling, and execute trades seamlessly. All in one platform. Geographic restrictions, eligibility, and terms apply.
    Get started with Nexo.
  • 1
    Bodhi Linux

    Bodhi Linux

    A minimalist, enlightened Linux distribution

    Bodhi is a minimalistic, enlightened, Linux desktop. Bodhi Linux is extremely lightweight and highly customizable. Bodhi is suitable for both Linux newcomers and experienced users. The Ubuntu LTS assures stability for years and the Bodhi Team is very open to all suggestions and requests from users and willing to help.
    Leader badge
    Downloads: 3,832 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 2
    Mabox Linux

    Mabox Linux

    Lightweight ready to use OpenBox Desktop Rolling-release Manjaro based

    Mabox is a Manjaro based, desktop Linux distribution. The project ships with Openbox as the default desktop with pinch of customistations and home-brewed tools, like improved menu, side-panels and Mabox Control Center. Works great even on weaker computers.
    Leader badge
    Downloads: 405 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 3
    CDE - Common Desktop Environment

    CDE - Common Desktop Environment

    The Common Desktop Environment, the classic UNIX desktop

    The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is now available as open-source software for the first time. For support, see: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/
    Leader badge
    Downloads: 79 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 4
    Loop

    Loop

    Window management made elegant.

    Loop is a macOS app that simplifies window management for you. You can effortlessly choose your window direction using a radial menu triggered by a simple key press, and customize it according to your preferences with personalized colors and settings. You can easily move, resize, and arrange your windows with just a few clicks, saving you valuable time and energy. Loop is constantly evolving, with new features and improvements added regularly to enhance your window management experience on macOS.
    Downloads: 13 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • One App to Replace Your Entire SaaS Stack Icon
    One App to Replace Your Entire SaaS Stack

    Projects, docs, chat, and AI in one workspace. Work faster, not across 10 tabs.

    ClickUp replaces your scattered tool stack with one AI-powered platform. Stop paying for project management, docs, chat, and time tracking separately when they all live in one place. Teams that consolidate into ClickUp cut software costs and move faster because everything is connected, not siloed across apps that don't talk to each other.
    Try ClickUp Free
  • 5
    yabai

    yabai

    A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

    yabai is a tiling window manager for macOS that extends the native windowing system with fully scriptable command-line control. It uses a binary space partitioning algorithm to auto-tile windows, supports extensive keyboard shortcut mapping (via skhd), and enhances productivity for power users.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 6
    TaskbarX

    TaskbarX

    TaskbarX: Customize taskbar icons with animations for a sleek Windows.

    TaskbarX offers precise control over taskbar icon placement, providing a Windows dock-like ambiance. Enjoy customizable animations, speeds, and positioning options. Easily tailor your taskbar to your preferences, with support for vertical taskbars and multiple instances. Developed since May 6, 2018, under the aliases FalconX and Falcon10, TaskbarX ensures a seamless user experience.
    Downloads: 190 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 7
    Circle Dock
    A circular, oval, and spiral dock for Windows implemented in .Net using C#. It is based on the idea of pie menus but in a dock form. Official Hompage: http://circledock.wikidot.com
    Downloads: 35 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 8
    screenrotate

    screenrotate

    Small script used to automatically change the various screen rotation

    This program was originally written for the Lenovo flex 5. But if your laptop has iio-sensor-proxy installed and supports it, automatic rotation should work on any laptop. Since version 1.7 I use an ASUS ROG Flow. Therefore new features and patches will be available first on the asus_rog_flow branch.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 9
    AeroSpace

    AeroSpace

    AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

    AeroSpace is a keyboard-first tiling window manager for macOS that brings i3-/Sway-style workflows to Apple’s windowing environment. Instead of manual dragging and stacking, windows are tiled automatically, and you navigate, move, or resize them using predictable, customizable keybindings. It supports multiple workspaces, per-display organization, and floating exceptions, so you can mix strict tiling with apps that are better left unmanaged. Configurability is a core goal: you can define rules for how specific apps should launch (tile vs. float, workspace placement), adjust gaps and padding, and fine-tune focus behavior. The project aims to feel native on macOS—respecting system features and accessibility—while giving power users the velocity they expect from a tiling manager. For developers and creators juggling many windows and monitors, AeroSpace reduces window fiddling to near zero, turning your desktop into a consistent, scriptable layout you can rely on all day.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • Stop vibe-debugging. Icon
    Stop vibe-debugging.

    Plug Claude into your app's actual errors.

    AppSignal's MCP server hands Claude, Cursor, or Zed your real errors, traces, and the deploy that shipped them. AI writes the fix; you review the diff.
    Free 30 days.
  • 10
    Amethyst

    Amethyst

    Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad

    Tiling window manager for macOS along the lines of xmonad. Amethyst is available for direct download on the releases page or using homebrew cask. Amethyst now is only supported on macOS 10.12+. Amethyst must be given permissions to use the accessibility APIs under the Privacy tab of the Security & Privacy preferences pane. Amethyst uses two modifier combinations. Amethyst allows you to cycle among several different window layouts. Layouts can also be enabled/disabled to control whether they appear in the cycle sequence at all. The default layout gives you one "main pane" on the left, and one other pane on the right. By default, one window is placed in the main pane (extending the full height of the screen), and all remaining windows are placed in the other pane. If either pane has more than one window, that pane will be evenly split into rows, to show them all. You can use the keyboard shortcuts above to control which window(s), and how many, are in the main pane.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 11
    Bismuth

    Bismuth

    KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically

    KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm. Arrange your windows in different grids to minimize mouse usage. Save your time by automatically managing windows on your screen. Power up your workflow using native Plasma features - Virtual Desktops and Activities.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 12
    Rectangle

    Rectangle

    Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts

    Rectangle is a window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 13
    Rofi

    Rofi

    A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

    Rofi started as a clone of the simple switcher, written by Sean Pringle - a popup window switcher roughly based on a super switcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations, and therefore Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. Rofi (renamed, as it lost the simple property) has been extended with extra features, like an application launcher and ssh-launcher, and can act as a drop-in menu replacement, making it a very versatile tool. Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be running an application, selecting a window, or options provided by an external script. It's not an application that can support every possible use case. It tries to be generic enough to be usable by everybody. Rofi has several built-in modes implementing common use cases and can be extended by scripts (either called from Rofi or calling Rofi) or plugins.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 14
    obmenu-generator

    obmenu-generator

    A fast menu generator for the Openbox Window Manager

    obmenu-generator is a fast and flexible menu generator for the Openbox window manager. It can create static or dynamic menus with support for icons, making it easier to manage application menus in Openbox environments.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 15
    icewm is a window manager for the X Window System. The features of icewm are speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 16
    An Openbox menu editor. Edit your complex xml-based openbox menus easily!
    Leader badge
    Downloads: 21 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 17
    This is a set of improved artwiz fonts. They are compatible with the latest fontconfig/Xft-2.0. Thus artwiz fonts work with gtk2/kde3 applications. Multiple encodings are available.
    Leader badge
    Downloads: 31 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 18
    SWM

    SWM

    Simple stacking window manager for X11

    SWM is a simple stacking window manager for X. SWM is meant to be controlled using X events and swmctl, its custom command-sending tool. X events could be sent using utilities like xdotool or wmctrl. Their commands, as well as swmctl ones could be mapped to keyboard shortcuts using a utility like sxhkd. You can find an example sxhkd config in the examples.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 19
    SwayFX

    SwayFX

    SwayFX: Sway, but with eye candy

    Sway is an incredible window manager, and certainly one of the most well established wayland window managers. However, it is restricted to only include the functionality that existed in i3. This fork ditches the simple wlr_renderer, and replaces it with our fx_renderer, capable of rendering with fancy GLES2 effects.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 20
    Tiling Shell

    Tiling Shell

    Extend Gnome Shell with advanced tiling window management

    Extend Gnome Shell with advanced tiling window management. Supports multiple monitors, Windows 11 Snap Assistant, Fancy Zones, customised tiling layouts and more. This is a Gnome Shell extension implementing modern windows tiling system by extending GNOME's default 2 columns to any layout you want! Can be installed on Gnome Shells from 40 to 46 on X11 and Wayland: the most recent GNOME Shell is supported, and older releases will include all the features and bug fixes.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 21
    dwm

    dwm

    dwm for Wayland

    dwl is a compact, hackable compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. It is intended to fill the same space in the Wayland world that dwm does in X11, primarily in terms of philosophy, and secondarily in terms of functionality. dwl is not meant to provide every feature under the sun. Instead, like dwm, it sticks to features that are necessary, simple, and straightforward to implement given the base on which it is built. Simple window borders, tags, keybindings, client rules, mouse move/resize. Providing a built-in status bar is an exception to this goal, to avoid dependencies on font rendering and/or drawing libraries when an external bar could work well.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 22
    Virtue is a virtual desktop manager for MacOS 10.4. It is based upon the work done by Rich Wareham on DesktopManager (http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/).
    Downloads: 18 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 23
    GLTF/GLB Windows Shell Extension: This shell extension automatically adds thumbnail images to .glb files in Windows File Explorer and provides a right click menu option to generate a 3D preview image for .gltf files. Supports multi-file select and directory processing. Pre-built Windows x64 installer available at https://buymeacoffee.com/nathancrews/e/255640 LAS/LAZ Pointcloud Windows Shell Extension: This "quick viewer" shell extension provides a Windows File Explorer right click menu option to quickly generate 3D preview images for large and small .las and .laz files. (Disclaimer: Processing time depends on compute hardware) Typical processing time for 100mb .las is about 2 seconds. 25mb .laz file process in about the same times. Files are processed in parallel using available CPU cores. Pre-built Windows x64 installer available at https://buymeacoffee.com/nathancrews/e/255641
    Downloads: 17 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 24
    Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper / background changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Panoramio, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, Google, Vladstudio and deviantART images.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
  • 25
    The Wizard Desktop is a set of simple applications that maintain a common user experience along with a simple window manager. The underlying framework will allow a single-user multiple network connected computers paradigm. Communications between the framework and applications are standardized, programs can be swapped out at will. Please visit the OpenHub site.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
    Last Update:
    See Project
Auth0 Logo