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Tiling projects on GitHub

Tiling window managers arranging windows automatically.

As of , the most-starred Tiling projects on GitHub are AeroSpace (23.5K stars), sway (17.4K stars) and spectacle (13.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Tiling repositories with 76.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was tinycast, with +34 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+34

tinycast

abue-ammar/tinycast · ★ 8.7K

Tinycast is a tiny, fully native macOS launcher: one global hotkey summons a palette for launching apps, clipboard history, snippets, window tiling and more — all under 100 MB of RAM.

+11

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.

+4

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.

+2

rift

acsandmann/rift · ★ 2.6K

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.

The all-time top

6 projects · by stars

  1. #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. #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. #3 · eczarny/spectacle

    spectacle

    Spectacle is a free Mac app that lets you organize windows — move, resize, center, or maximize them — entirely from the keyboard, without touching the mouse.

    13.6K
  1. 4

    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.

  2. 5

    tinycast

    8.7Kabue-ammar/tinycast · Swift

    Tinycast is a tiny, fully native macOS launcher: one global hotkey summons a palette for launching apps, clipboard history, snippets, window tiling and more — all under 100 MB of RAM.

  3. 6

    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.

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