# acsandmann/rift

> 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.

- Magnitude: 4.3 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 2,440 total · +13 stars today, ≈ 37 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Productivity & self-hosted · Language: Rust · Created: 2025-07-25 · Last push: 2026-09-23
- GitHub: https://github.com/acsandmann/rift · Homepage: https://acsandmann.github.io/rift-docs/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/acsandmann/rift

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 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.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 97
- Issues and pull requests: 459
- Watchers: 10
- Average over the last week: 32 per day
- Usual pace: 3 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v0.5.10 (2026-09-19)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-25 … 2026-09-23: 3, 5, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 5, 2, 5, 0, 2, 4, 4, 2, 5, 4, 4, 1, 3, 2, 3, 6, 6, 3, 3, 23, 65, 84, 13

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Rust today: #5, +71 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-23 12:53 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.