acsandmann/rift

a tiling window manager for macos

Productivity & self-hostedRust#i3#macos#tiling#i3wm#mac

4.3 Breakout Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 23, 2026, 12:53 UTC.

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About the project

A tiling window manager for macOS written in Rust with multiple layout styles (i3, bspwm, dwm, niri) and animations. It does not require disabling SIP and supports separate Spaces per display.

Useful for

Set up automatic tiling of windows on macOS instead of manual dragging
Switch workspaces with trackpad gestures and via the menubar icon
Save and restore window layouts from the CLI or menu

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

13 stars so far today, about 37 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 3 per day, so that's 13× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 11× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending Rust today: #5, +71 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 2,440
Today: 13 · ≈ 37 by evening
Forks: 97
Issues and pull requests: 459
Watchers: 10
Language: Rust
Latest release: v0.5.10 · September 19, 2026
Created: July 25, 2025
Last push: September 23, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 23, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #5, +71 stars

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