Omacosy
Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP
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I have been using omarchy on my tower since nearly a year now, shortly after it was released first. I really love the experience I am having with it but I still use my macbook for daly work, so I wanted to recreate a similar experience on it. Thats why I created omacosy, a setup for tiling windows, custom menu bar, some themes from omarchy, focus follows mouse, focus rings around windwos, some mac flavors with trackpad events and a custom mission control overview for your workspaces.I used AeroSpace over yabai for the tiling window manager because I didnt wanted to compromise on SIP which is a mac security feature. It is supposed to be keyboard first like omarchy to move windows organize workspaces etc The setup runs around 157mb of ram and consists of AeroSpace, Karabiner (for the super key), and five small self build swift binaries.I am running it daily on my M1 max macbook, currently on macOS26. I havent tested it much on other macbooks or macOS versions. The install script creates a manifest file to backup what was installed before and what it installed itself, the uninstall script takes that into account to clean up the macbook to exactly the state it was in before. It needs quite some permissions for it sfunctionality which I layed our in the project readme. I wanted to be really transparent about which permissions it uses and for what reason.I would love to get some feedback or see people trying it out and hearing your opinion. Mostly about what still doesnt feel smooth in the experience or if you find any performance issues.
HN · launched Aug 20, 2026 · 57 upvotes (top 13%) · 3 views
Niche: desktop window managers · 103 launches, 13 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Omacosy is a configuration and scripting dotfiles bundle (using tools like yabai/aerospace, sketchybar, and skhd without SIP disabling) wrapped in a standard GitHub repository.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Raycast, InstantSpaceSwitcher, Space Rabbit, AeroSpace, yabai
Concerns raised: SIP (System Integrity Protection) needs to be disabled, creating security risks, Difficult to memorize many keyboard shortcuts, macOS lacks command-line configurability compared to Linux, Korren repository no longer exists/unavailable
Feature requests: Alt+Tab support for instant space switching, Integration with floating window management, Broader documentation/examples for keyboard shortcut configuration
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 319 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #70 of 320 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 277 days after the earliest competitor.
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- omarchy-mac-starter · github · 2026-09-30 · 95 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- omacale · github · 2026-09-20 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired · hn · 2025-12-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Try Omarchy for Windows · hn · 2026-09-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- KiwiDesk · ph · 2026-09-27 · 148 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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