tinywm
A scrolling window manager for macOS, inspired by niri
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GITHUB · launched Oct 14, 2026 · 22 upvotes (top 53%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- macos
- niri
- scrolling-window-manager
- swift
- tiling-window-manager
- window-manager
Similar launches
See all 2245 similar launches →Could you build this?
No Building a custom window manager for macOS requires low-level system programming, deep interaction with private macOS Accessibility and SkyLight APIs, and complex display server mechanics.
What it would actually take: A developer would write a native macOS daemon in Swift, C, or Rust utilizing the Accessibility (AXUIElement) APIs and private CoreGraphics/SkyLight framework hooks to intercept window events. The system needs custom event taps, precise window geometry and workspace virtual canvas management, and smooth trackpad gesture handling. This requires deep domain knowledge of macOS internals, undocumented window server behaviors, and low-level system hooks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2245 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1167 of 2213 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 349 days after the earliest competitor.
- Dinky · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.80
- Yashiki · hn · 2026-01-19 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired · hn · 2025-12-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- Wobbly · github · 2026-10-06 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- window-sweaters · github · 2026-09-15 · 587 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Tessera · hn · 2026-07-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- phantomat · github · 2026-09-24 · 193 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Bonsplit · hn · 2026-01-25 · 245 upvotes · similarity 0.65
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More details
- External ID
- 1418648117
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- tinywm
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.47
- All tags
- macos, niri, scrolling-window-manager, swift, tiling-window-manager, window-manager
- AI summary
- scrolling window manager for macos
- Manually corrected
- No