The Best 23 Windawesome Alternatives

  • i3 icon

    i3

    i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several improvements over wmii.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • altdrag icon

    altdrag

    AltDrag allows you to move and resize windows much easier. When you have it running you can simply hold down the Alt key and then use your mouse to drag any window, and it doesn't matter where in the window you click.

    Free Open Source Windows

    Portable Snap windows Window Resizing
  • HyperDock icon

    HyperDock

    HyperDock adds Windows 7 like features and more to Mac OS X. Select individual application windows & tabs just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • awesome icon

    awesome

    awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Xmonad icon

    Xmonad

    xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • SizeUp icon

    SizeUp

    SizeUp allows you to quickly position a window to fill exactly half the screen (splitscreen), a quarter of the screen (quadrant), full screen, or centered via the menu bar or configurable system-wide shortcuts (hotkeys).

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Amethyst icon

    Amethyst

    Amethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • wmii icon

    wmii

    wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Mosaico icon

    Mosaico

    Mosaico is a tiling window manager for Windows. It saves the position of the windows on your desktop so that you can restore them later. It also tiles them so that they...

    Freemium Windows

  • Taekwindow icon

    Taekwindow

    Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight and free Windows program that allows you to move and resize windows by dragging them with the Alt key, similar to many X11 window...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • MaxSnap icon

    MaxSnap

    MaxSnap is a powerful window manager which lets you: - Move, arrange, and resize windows with menu-bar icon or keyboard shortcuts - Option/Alt-Drag - move and resize...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Ratpoison icon

    Ratpoison

    Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. The screen can be split into...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Sway icon

    Sway

    Sway is a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Easy Move+Resize icon

    Easy Move+Resize

    Easy Move+Resize is based on behavior found in many X11/Linux window managers, adding easy modifier key + mouse drag move and resize to OS X.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • PyGrid icon

    PyGrid

    PyGrid is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • QuickTile icon

    QuickTile

    A lightweight utility for allowing you to quickly snap windows to a tiling grid under your existing Linux window manager. Can be triggered via keyboard shortcuts, the...

    Free Open Source Linux