yabai VS MonitorControl

Compare yabai vs MonitorControl and see what are their differences.

yabai

A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning (by koekeishiya)

MonitorControl

🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs. (by MonitorControl)
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yabai MonitorControl
218 191
20,863 25,769
- 2.9%
9.1 7.0
2 days ago about 1 month ago
C Swift
MIT License MIT License
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yabai

Posts with mentions or reviews of yabai. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-17.

MonitorControl

Posts with mentions or reviews of MonitorControl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing yabai and MonitorControl you can also consider the following projects:

Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

Lunar - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors

BetterDisplay - Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more!

vscode-vibrancy - Enable Acrylic/Glass effect for your VS Code.

BetterDummy - Unlock your displays on your Mac! Smooth scaling, HiDPI unlock, XDR/HDR extra brightness upscale, DDC, brightness and dimming, dummy displays, PIP and lots more! [Moved to: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay]

Karabiner-Elements - Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.

alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS

hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

RDM - Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions

skhd - Simple hotkey daemon for macOS

firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox