yabai
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
2warn against
Jan 17, 2026first mention
Sep 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use Yabai, which is pretty good -- and you don't have to completely disable SIP.”
Caveats and dissent
“I don't use these anymore, because these also were pretty buggy for my use case”
uses macOS at work, prefers KDE/Gnomeon “macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review”
“They are a collection of hacks on the accessibility API, and they will break whenever Apple decides to.”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Native Instant Space Switching on macOS 2 mentions
- macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review 1 mention
- Leaving Linux 1 mention
- item 49374830 1 mention
- It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 1 mention
- HopTab–free,open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab 1 mention
Also written as Yabai. Data: yabai.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“I don't use these anymore, because these also were pretty buggy for my use case”
“They are a collection of hacks on the accessibility API, and they will break whenever Apple decides to.”
“The experience with both of these has been quite terrible”
“I used to daily drive <https://github.com/asmvik/yabai> for almost a year until a major macOS update broke it”
“I used to use yabai for this but I can't disable SIP anymore on a work laptop.”
“I see yabai mentioned, definitely check out Aerospace.”
“I use yabai and I've been wanting something similar to what you built.”
“I use Yabai, which is pretty good -- and you don't have to completely disable SIP.”
“I have a custom menu bar I wrote that integrates with Yabai”