Sidebar based/tabbed tiling window manager for macOS
Details
- External ID
- 47666590
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Sidebar based/tabbed tiling window manager for macOS
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
WinMux is an easy to use tiling window manager that makes stacking intuitive and improves visual awareness of workspaces. Does not support multi-monitor yet.
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
- tiling window manager for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No macOS window managers require deep low-level systems programming using private Accessibility APIs, SkyLight/CoreGraphics internals, and macOS event taps.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires Objective-C or Swift interfacing directly with macOS Accessibility APIs (`AXUIElement`), CoreGraphics event taps, and undocumented SkyLight private frameworks to manipulate third-party window frames. Handling complex edge cases like SIP restrictions, space transitions, multi-display arrangements, and sandboxing quirks requires specialized macOS reverse engineering and window server systems experience.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 164 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #154 of 165 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 141 days after the earliest competitor.
- OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired · hn · 2025-12-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- KiwiDesk · ph · 2026-09-27 · 148 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Dinky · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Chain Your Mac · ph · 2026-09-20 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Yashiki · hn · 2026-01-19 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Xpectacle · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Smooth window arrangement in macOS restored · hn · 2025-11-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Split · ph · 2026-09-25 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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