I'm a very happy user of SizeUp[0]. I did pay $13 or so, but money well spent. Functionally, I wonder if amethyst is the same or better. It's definitely nice to have this free option.

[0]: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

I haven't used SizeUp, but it looks similar to other tiling window managers in that they give you keyboard shortcuts to move windows around. Amethyst is modeled on xmonad which has more of a philosophy of the application should be doing the laying out for you, and then you just need keyboard shortcuts to tweak the layout algorithms as necessary.

Not necessarily better for everyone's use case, just solves a different problem.

Let me put in a word for ShiftIt.

https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt

I used to use ShiftIt all the time, but actually eventually moved to Slate. I wrote Amethyst because I got tired of manually moving windows, even if by keyboard shortcut, and got spoiled by xmonad when I was running a linux machine.

Just wanted to pop in and say thanks for this project. I'm a longtime user of awesomewm and love having my windows automatically laid out. Using ShiftIt or Slate just isn't the same - I very rarely care to micromanage sizes and layouts.

Any plans to designate "always floating" apps like in awesomewm?

A video, showing it being used, would really sell this over other window managers. And, if it actually works, unlike TylerWM, it would be amazing.