I3 projects on GitHub

Tiling window manager setups and application launchers.

As of October 19, 2026, the most-starred I3 projects on GitHub are AeroSpace (23.5K stars), sway (17.4K stars) and rofi (16.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 7 I3 repositories with 97.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was AeroSpace, with +11 stars in a day.

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97.6KStars in total

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

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AeroSpace

nikitabobko/AeroSpace · ★ 23.5K

AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS: it arranges your windows into a tree-based tiling layout automatically and adds i3-style workspaces you can switch between instantly from the keyboard.

Waybar

Alexays/Waybar · ★ 12.1K

Waybar is a highly customizable status bar built for Wayland compositors like Sway, Hyprland, River, and other wlroots-based setups, with modules for things like battery, network, audio, and the clock.

sway

swaywm/sway · ★ 17.4K

Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor: the program that draws and arranges your windows on Linux, tiling them automatically like the i3 window manager.

powerline

powerline/powerline · ★ 14.8K

Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim that also provides statuslines and prompts for many other applications, including zsh, bash, fish, tmux, IPython, Awesome, i3 and Qtile.

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7 projects · by stars

#1 · nikitabobko/AeroSpace
AeroSpace
AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS: it arranges your windows into a tree-based tiling layout automatically and adds i3-style workspaces you can switch between instantly from the keyboard.
23.5K
#2 · swaywm/sway
sway
Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor: the program that draws and arranges your windows on Linux, tiling them automatically like the i3 window manager.
17.4K
#3 · davatorium/rofi
rofi
Rofi is a window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement for Linux and BSD. It pops up a searchable list where you can jump between open windows, launch apps, connect over SSH or browse files.
16.5K

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powerline
14.8Kpowerline/powerline · Python
Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim that also provides statuslines and prompts for many other applications, including zsh, bash, fish, tmux, IPython, Awesome, i3 and Qtile.
5
Waybar
12.1KAlexays/Waybar · C++
Waybar is a highly customizable status bar built for Wayland compositors like Sway, Hyprland, River, and other wlroots-based setups, with modules for things like battery, network, audio, and the clock.
6
i3
10.6Ki3/i3 · C
i3 is a tiling window manager for X11 — a program that controls how application windows are arranged on your screen.
7
rift
2.6Kacsandmann/rift · Rust
Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability, offering multiple layout styles like i3-style tiling, bspwm-style BSP, floating, dwm-style master-stack, niri-style scrolling columns, and a stack/accordion layout.