Alternatives to JankyBorders
A lightweight macOS tool that draws colored borders around windows to highlight the focused one. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
JankyBorders
A lightweight macOS tool that draws colored borders around windows to highlight the focused one.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as JankyBorders.
HazeOver
A macOS app that dims background windows automatically so the active window stands out.
HazeOver dims background windows so the active one stands out instead of drawing borders, is paid after the trial, closed source, and needs macOS Ventura 13 or later.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
yabai
A tiling window manager for macOS that arranges windows by binary space partitioning and is driven entirely from the command line.
AeroSpace
An i3-like tiling window manager for macOS, written in Swift.
skhd
Simple hotkey daemon for macOS commonly paired with the yabai tiling manager.
SketchyBar
A scriptable status bar for macOS that replaces or supplements the standard menu bar.
Amethyst
Arrange macOS windows automatically with a keyboard-driven tiling manager.
