About yabai
Yabai is a tiling window manager for macOS that organizes windows using binary space partitioning, enhancing productivity through keyboard-driven controls and customizable layouts. It integrates with macOS's built-in window management and supports advanced features like focus-follows-mouse and space customization.
Key features
Keyboard-Driven Window Management
Streamline workflows with efficient controls
Yabai replaces mouse interactions with keyboard shortcuts, allowing users to manage windows, spaces, and displays through an intuitive command-line interface. This minimizes distractions and boosts productivity by keeping focus on content.
Fully Customizable Layouts
Tailor your workspace to your needs
With extensive configuration options, Yabai lets users define personalized window arrangements, keyboard shortcuts, and behaviors to match their workflow. Configuration files and examples are provided for easy setup.
Open Source and Community-Driven
Free, transparent, and continuously improved
As open-source software under the MIT License, Yabai is free to use and modify. The community contributes to its development, ensuring ongoing enhancements and support for macOS users.
Scripting and Automation Support
Integrate with your existing tools
Yabai supports scripting via AppleScript and shell commands, enabling automation of complex workflows. Users can seamlessly integrate Yabai with other applications and tools for a cohesive experience.
Lightweight and Resource-Efficient
Optimized for performance
Designed to be lightweight, Yabai minimizes system resource usage, ensuring smooth operation even with multiple active windows. It works efficiently alongside macOS's native window management.
Pricing
Full pricing pageFree
The basics for individuals and organizations
- Unlimited public/private repositories
- Host open source projects in public GitHub repositories
- Dependabot security and version updates
- 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 500MB of Packages storage
- Issues & Projects
- Community support
Team
Advanced collaboration for individuals and organizations
- Everything included in Free
- Access to GitHub Codespaces
- Repository rules
- Multiple reviewers in pull requests
- Draft pull requests
- Code owners
- Required reviewers
- Pages and Wikis
- Environment deployment branches and secrets
- 3,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 2GB of Packages storage
- Web-based support
- GitHub Secret Protection
- GitHub Code Security
Enterprise
Security, compliance, and flexible deployment
- Everything included in Team
- Data residency
- Enterprise Managed Users
- User provisioning through SCIM
- Enterprise Account to centrally manage multiple organizations
- Environment protection rules
- Repository rules
- Audit Log API
- SOC1, SOC2, type 2 reports annually
- FedRAMP Tailored Authority to Operate (ATO)
- SAML single sign-on
- Advanced auditing
- GitHub Connect
- 50,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 50GB of Packages storage
- Premium support
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