SlideScroll
A scrolling window manager for macOS.
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A scrolling window manager for macOS, inspired by niri and PaperWM. Every window is a column on an endless strip: windows keep their size, and you swipe with four fingers to move between them. Stacks, tabs, pinning, multiple displays, remappable shortcuts. Native, tiny, free and open source.
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PH · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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Partial A native macOS app that is conceptually simple but depends on the Accessibility APIs, window-server behavior, and smooth gesture handling. Those are hard to get right without deep platform knowledge, even though the UI is straightforward.
What it would actually take: A real version is a Swift and AppKit app that uses Accessibility APIs and possibly private window-server calls to move, resize, and animate windows across displays. It needs gesture recognition from trackpad events, a strip layout engine, and careful handling of app quirks, Spaces, and full-screen. macOS window-management expertise and extensive testing across apps are required.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #147 of 601 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
- Chain Your Mac · ph · 2026-09-20 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.84
- TileMyMac · ph · 2026-10-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- SlideScroll · github · 2026-10-22 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Tinywm · hn · 2026-10-16 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- tinywm · github · 2026-10-14 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Sidebar based/tabbed tiling window manager for macOS · hn · 2026-04-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Initial Launch · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired · hn · 2025-12-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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