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Roost

macOS window tiler that remembers every display setup

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Roost is a free, open-source macOS window tiler. It tiles windows as they open and remembers the layout for each display setup, restoring your arrangement when you reconnect your monitors, even after a restart. No config files, no network connections. Requires Accessibility permission. Not notarized yet: first launch needs "Open Anyway" in Privacy & Security. The README covers setup and building from source.

PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

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

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Partial The settings UI is easy to build, but a reliable macOS window tiler depends on native Accessibility API work and display-configuration fingerprinting that vibe coding alone handles poorly.

What it would actually take: Build a native Swift/AppKit app that uses the Accessibility (AXUIElement) API to move and resize windows, and watch NSScreen and CGDisplay notifications to detect display changes. Store layouts keyed by a hash of the display set, then restore them on reconnect or login. The hard parts are edge cases across apps that ignore AX resizing, timing races during sleep and wake, and code signing and notarization, which call for someone comfortable with macOS internals.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 308 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #180 of 309 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 360 days after the earliest competitor.

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