7 alternatives to AeroSpace
nikitabobko/aerospace — AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS (23,584 stars, MIT, testing, ui, dev-tools).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 255 licence-cleared components from nikitabobko/aerospace itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ianyh/amethyst | 1.4 | MIT | 16,301 |
| 2 | codeeditapp/codeedit | 5.6 | MIT | 23,081 |
| 3 | openclaw/peekaboo | 6.1 | MIT | 5,361 |
| 4 | openclaw/axorcist | 6.2 | MIT | 329 |
| 5 | p0deje/maccy | 4.7 | MIT | 22,010 |
| 6 | coryszatkowski/clawdeck | 5.8 | MIT | 37 |
| 7 | dwarvesf/hidden | 2.1 | MIT | 15,248 |
The alternatives in detail
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Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.score 1.4/10 · MIT permissive · 16,301 stars · 58 components · search them
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📝 CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.
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Peekaboo is a macOS CLI & optional MCP server that enables AI agents to capture screenshots of applications, or the entire system, with optional visual question answering through local or remote AI models.score 6.1/10 · MIT permissive · 5,361 stars · 1,212 components · search them
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AXorcist • Swift wrapper for macOS Accessibility—chainable, fuzzy-matched queries that read, click, and inspect any UI. The power of Swift compels your UI to obey!score 6.2/10 · MIT permissive · 329 stars · 134 components · search them
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Lightweight clipboard manager for macOSscore 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 22,010 stars · 104 components · search them
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Stream Deck controller for Claude Code — visual status, window tiling, and quick actionsscore 5.8/10 · MIT permissive · 37 stars · 6 components · search them
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An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar iconsscore 2.1/10 · MIT permissive · 15,248 stars · 33 components · search them
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