Chain Your Mac
The scrolling window manager for macOS.
Details
- External ID
- 1255305
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Chain Your Mac
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9529345734445157
- Tags
- Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
A native scrolling window manager for macOS: windows on an endless strip, like Niri or PaperWM. Trackpad swipe, stacks, no SIP, macOS 13+. Try the live demo.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- scrolling window manager for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Implementing a smooth, gesture-driven scrolling window manager without disabling System Integrity Protection requires deep reverse engineering of private macOS window server frameworks and display synchronization.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves Swift and Rust interacting directly with private macOS SkyLight frameworks and the Accessibility API (AXUIElement) to track and reposition windows on an endless coordinate strip. The hard problems include synchronizing window animations seamlessly with CVDisplayLink vsync, intercepting low-level trackpad gesture streams, and avoiding window-server race conditions and visual stutter without SIP bypasses. This requires deep systems-level knowledge of undocumented macOS window server internals.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 309 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 310 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.
- Smooth window arrangement in macOS restored · hn · 2025-11-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired · hn · 2025-12-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Sidebar based/tabbed tiling window manager for macOS · hn · 2026-04-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Deskbit · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Dinky · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- SpinWin · hn · 2026-07-25 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- KiwiDesk · ph · 2026-09-27 · 148 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Sash · hn · 2026-04-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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