OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired
Details
- External ID
- 46387212
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 25, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2652671755725191
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Tabs, spotlight-like window finder, borders, etc... High Niri parity
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macos tiling window manager
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Creating a reliable macOS tiling window manager requires deep, undocumented macOS Accessibility APIs, CoreGraphics Event Taps, and private SkyLight framework hacking.
What it would actually take: Built with Swift/Objective-C interacting heavily with macOS AXUIElement APIs, CGEventTap, and reverse-engineered SkyLight/CGS private APIs to move, resize, and draw borders around sandboxed third-party windows. The hardest parts are overcoming macOS window server latency, handling multi-monitor spaces, and dealing with undocumented OS-level window focus behavior. Requires specialized macOS systems internals engineering.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: AeroSpace
Concerns raised: Option-key-based system creates conflicts with character entry and other keyboard shortcuts
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 536 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #419 of 537 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 56 days after the earliest competitor.
- Dinky · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- Yashiki · hn · 2026-01-19 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- window-sweaters · github · 2026-09-15 · 587 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- aro · github · 2026-09-22 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Sidebar based/tabbed tiling window manager for macOS · hn · 2026-04-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Bonsplit · hn · 2026-01-25 · 245 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Chain Your Mac · ph · 2026-09-20 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- fathom · github · 2026-09-23 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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- No other launches for this product.
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