AeroSpace
AeroSpace is a native macOS tiling window manager that helps you organize app windows with keyboard-driven layouts and workspaces.
What is AeroSpace?
AeroSpace is a tiling window manager for macOS designed for people who prefer keyboard-first window control and structured desktop layouts. It helps users arrange windows automatically in tiled or accordion-style layouts, switch between workspaces quickly, and manage multi-monitor setups with less manual dragging and resizing. AeroSpace is especially useful for developers, technical users, and anyone who works with many windows open at once and wants a workflow similar to i3 on Linux. The app uses a plain-text configuration file, supports command-line control, and can integrate with scripts and custom desktop setups. It runs as a native Mac app rather than a browser-based or cloud service, and its main purpose is to improve desktop organization and window management on Mac.
Key features
- Arrange windows in tiled and accordion-style layouts automatically
- Switch between workspaces quickly with keyboard shortcuts
- Move, focus, resize, and reorganize windows without using the mouse
- Manage multi-monitor setups with workspace and monitor assignments
- Customize behavior through a plain-text TOML configuration file
- Control the window manager from the command line for scripting and automation
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
AeroSpace is legitimate desktop utility software for macOS, but it works by managing other app windows, so it may request Accessibility access to control focus, movement, and layout behavior. That level of access is normal for a tiling window manager, yet it does give the app broad control over window interactions. If you use it, grant only the permissions needed for window management and review startup behavior if you do not want it running automatically at login. Removing it will stop its custom layouts, shortcuts, and workspace behavior, but it should not harm your files.
Recommendation: Keep AeroSpace if you actively use keyboard-driven window tiling or workspace workflows on your Mac. If you prefer standard macOS window management or no longer use its shortcuts and layouts, you can remove it and return to the default desktop behavior.
Common paths
/Applications/AeroSpace.app~/.aerospace.toml~/.config/aerospace/aerospace.toml
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