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Chain Your Mac

The scrolling window manager for macOS.

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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.

PH · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 5%) · 0 views

Niche: desktop window managers · 103 launches, 13 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Productivity
  • Menu Bar Apps

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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 : 767 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #105 of 768 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.

  • SlideScroll · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.84
  • TileMyMac · ph · 2026-10-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.72
  • MacChain · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • Tinywm · hn · 2026-10-16 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • tinywm · github · 2026-10-14 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • Ribbon · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • SlideScroll · github · 2026-10-22 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Smooth window arrangement in macOS restored · hn · 2025-11-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56

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