Alfred vs Amethyst

Alfred is a productivity application for macOS developed by Running with Crayons Ltd. that serves as an application launcher, file searcher, and workflow automation tool. The free version provides search and launch functionality, while the paid Powerpack adds features like workflows, clipboard history, snippets, and custom web searches. Alfred 5 is the current major version.

Amethyst is a free, open-source tiling window manager for macOS inspired by xmonad. It automatically arranges application windows into non-overlapping layouts using keyboard shortcuts, without requiring System Integrity Protection to be disabled. Amethyst supports multiple layout algorithms including tall, wide, fullscreen, and column layouts.