Oatbar Alternatives
Oatbar is described as 'The motivation for creation of oatbar was to extend on the idea of Unix-way for toolbars. Inspired by i3bar which consumes a JSON stream that controls it's appearance, we take this idea much further without becoming a DIY widget toolkit' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Oatbar for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, GTK, FreeBSD and X11 apps. The best Oatbar alternative is wayle, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Oatbar are Eww, YASB Reborn, Quickshell and Ewwii.
Alternatives list
Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows



- 25 Quickshell alternatives
Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (LGPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
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Xfce componet to switch between opened windows, launch applications, switch workspaces and menu plugins to browse applications or directories.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- 25 Waybar alternatives
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Linux
- Sway
- Wayland
France
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- 24 nwg-panel alternatives
Nwg-panel is a GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors. The panel is equipped with a graphical configuration program that frees the user from the need to manually edit configuration files.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
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