Compare software

Compare Jay with alternatives

• Jay vs SwaySway is a widely used i3-style Wayland compositor under MIT that supports much of the i3 configuration format, with a larger user base than Jay.
• Jay vs HyprlandHyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor under BSD-3-Clause with animations and extensive layout configuration, and a larger community.
• Jay vs miracle-wmmiracle-wm offers i3-style tiling on Wayland built on Mir, with animations, shaders and Rust plugins, packaged as Snap and Debian packages.
• Jay vs niriniri switches to scrollable column tiling on Wayland where opening windows never resizes others, with an IPC interface and a large user base.
• Jay vs PinnaclePinnacle is an AwesomeWM-inspired tiling Wayland compositor configured in Lua or Rust instead of TOML.
• Jay vs riverriver separates window management into a replaceable program, so you choose or build your own layout policy, and builds with the Zig toolchain.
• Jay vs SwayFXSwayFX keeps Sway's i3-style tiling and adds blur, rounded corners and shadows, at some performance overhead compared with plain Sway.
• Jay vs dwldwl brings dwm-style dynamic tiling to Wayland on wlroots, customised by editing C source and recompiling.