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We've compiled a list of 23 free and paid alternatives to Phoenix. The primary competitors include Openbox, i3. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Phoenix and Fluxbox, Xmonad, dwm. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.


Openbox
Free Open Source

Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

i3
Free Open Source

A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

Fluxbox
Free Open Source

Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code.

Xmonad
Free Open Source

xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.

dwm
Free Open Source

dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.

awesome
Free Open Source

A dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages.

Ratpoison
Free Open Source

Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window...

wtftw
Free Open Source

Window Tiling For The Win. A tiling window manager written in Rust

Wmderland
Free Open Source

Lightweight Tiling Window Manager for X Window System

spectrwm
Free Open Source

spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript.

Phoenix Platforms

tick-square Mac

Phoenix Video and Screenshots

Phoenix Overview

Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint. If you like the idea of scripting your own window or app management toolkit with JavaScript, Phoenix is probably going to give you the things you want. With Phoenix you can bind keyboard shortcuts and system events, and use these to interact with OS X.

Key Features

highly customisable, write your own configuration
bind keyboard shortcuts and system events to your callback functions
control and interact with your screens, spaces, mouse, apps and windows
log messages, deliver notifications or display messages as modals
run external commands

Phoenix Features

tick-square Lightweight

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Phoenix Categories

OS and Utilities

Phoenix Tags

desktop-environments window-manager

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