it-is-sean/macos-window-styler — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-05-18
Restore a classic macOS window look, like old OS X or Sequoia styling, on a newer Mac.
Preview and apply a custom window appearance without typing terminal commands.
Customize window title bars and borders to match a personal aesthetic preference.
Learn from an open source example of a small native SwiftUI settings app.
| it-is-sean/macos-window-styler | insidegui/twomillionkit | licoy/codex-runway | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 73 | 75 | 76 |
| Language | Swift | Swift | Swift |
| Setup difficulty | easy | easy | easy |
| Complexity | 1/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 |
| Audience | general | developer | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires macOS 26 or later, either download a prebuilt release or build with Xcode.
macOS Window Styler is a native Mac app that lets you change how window title bars and borders look on macOS 26 and later, bringing back the visual style of older macOS versions or letting you build your own custom look. It comes with three ready made presets named Tahoe, Sequoia, and OS X, each recreating the window appearance from a different era of macOS, so you can pick one and see your whole desktop shift to that older, familiar chrome. Beyond the presets, the app gives you full control to customize window appearance yourself, with an instant preview so you can see changes before applying them, and a one click button to apply your chosen style system wide. The app is built entirely with SwiftUI, Apple's toolkit for building native Mac and iOS interfaces, and the whole project is open source, so anyone curious about how it works can read the code directly. To use it, you need a Mac running macOS 26 or later. You can either download a ready built version from the project's Releases page, or clone the source code and build it yourself using Xcode if you prefer to compile it on your own machine. The project explains that it builds on a discovery originally shared in a Reddit post, which found hidden system settings that control macOS window styling through terminal commands. This app simply wraps that discovery in an easy to use graphical interface, so people who are not comfortable typing commands in a terminal can still customize their windows with a few clicks. The developer credits the original Reddit research as the foundation the whole project was built on top of.
A native Mac app that restores classic macOS window styles, like older OS X or Sequoia looks, on macOS 26 and later with one click.
Mainly Swift. The stack also includes Swift, SwiftUI.
No license information is provided in this repository.
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.
Mainly general.
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