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phoenix
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kasper / phoenix

phoenix

A lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

16Distinct people
37Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
4.5KGitHub stars
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What it is

A lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:05:26 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year37 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-11-28 20:24:15 UTC to 2024-12-13 17:42:18 UTC.

024682015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 4 submissions, 3 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC743
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505

What Hacker News says

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I've been using Phoenix (https://github.com/kasper/phoenix), which is hackable in JavaScript (here's my config: https://gist.github.com/rcarmo/5132874cdaf2755e42907508802e8...) and has a smaller scope (only window management), but haven't found it compelling enough to keep hacking at my config, so I'm back to Moom (https://manytricks.com/moom/), which would be perfect if it supported chaining sequences of sizing instructions (i.e., tile a window twice to the left to turn it from 1/2 to 1/3 width).
In Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS
It's not the same thing at all, in the sense that this is very much keyboard-driven whereas FancyZones is mouse-driven. Think of it as XMonad-like, with permanently tiled, auto-arranged windows (see https://workspacer.org/screenshots/) and able to move/rotate windows using keyboard alone. I use FancyZones a lot and am currently trying to find a Mac analogue - nothing does "drop and place" the same way. In the meantime, I've switched from Moom to https://github.com/kasper/phoenix and implemented XMonad-like tiling (Amethyst-like) in a couple of hours: https://gist.github.com/rcarmo/1daccbe9abbbb5c133b7b48d05cc0... ...in comparison, I have yet to build a FancyZones equivalent since mouse handling requires a completely different logic when doing window placement (I have to grab the current window frame, figure out if it matches a predefined
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zone, etc.).
In Workspacer: A tiling window manager for Windows 10

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