Mac Productivity Toolkit in 2025: Tilers, Monitors, and Open-Source Spurs

Mac productivity just got a turbo boost. HyprSpace's tiling fork on macOS — a fork of AeroSpace — reshapes window layouts, and VisualDiffer just went open source, sparking chatter about features, pricing, and what’s next from Sensei and Mac Monitorly.^[1]

• HyprSpace — A tiling-for-macOS powerhouse that adds more layouts, a centered workspace bar, and smart tiling like Dwindle, Niri/Scroll, and Master. It runs side-by-side with AeroSpace thanks to its own namespace and can be installed via brew or a DMG release.^[1]

• VisualDiffer — Open-source release; the author Davide confirms the move and the community reaction is loud and clear.^[2]

• Terminal prompts — The discussion skews toward saving prompts and getting hints in the shell. Expect nods to Zsh autosuggestions, Warp, and tealdeer as practical prompts tooling examples.^[3]

• Bloom — Readers riff on a Finder-friendly future, plus top requests like native cloud connections and SFTP, with Bloom’s role in showing mounted drives and cloud storage options.^[4]

• Sensei vs Mac Monitorly — Pricing debate centers on lifetime licenses and feature trade-offs, with users weighing trim enabler support and fan control alongside a competing licensing outlook.^[5]

Closing thought: the 2025 Mac stack is leaning open, configurable, and very hands-on—watch HyprSpace, Bloom, and the prompt-tooling conversations to see what sticks next.

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