Correction (2026-08-25). This post is the Feb 2026 intro. Product facts now: CalVer (not older 0.x tags). The full Apple family plus Android and Linux. VMs and containers are planned Machine types (forbidden on tvOS/watchOS). macOS Classic Desktop Replacement exists on the desktop-host build; LockScreen greeter and Android Home are still coming soon. iOS/iPadOS Desktop via repo.wawona.io (not the App Store app). Wawona Swinging Bridge is a separate planned app bridge. tvOS GPU is available (OpenGL ES via ANGLE and Vulkan via MoltenVK, both to Metal). Graphics libs live in wwn-* flake inputs. See docs and FAQ.

Wawona is a native Wayland compositor for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, visionOS, Android, and Linux. The compositor talks Wayland. The pixels go out through Metal, Vulkan, or a CPU/SHM fallback.

Why

On a Mac, the usual way to run Wayland apps was a virtual machine or a slow emulator. Wawona implements the compositor in Rust and draws with the platform GPU APIs, so a Linux Wayland client can show up as a native window. You can still start a VM or container Machine when you want a guest OS.

How it is built

Rust core

One backend owns protocol state, surfaces, and input. Host UI is SwiftUI/ObjC, JNI/Compose, or GTK. UniFFI exists in src/ffi. It is not the only bridge.

Native graphics

Userspace DRM/KMS/GBM is wwn-iland. Apple GPU targets use Metal (IOSurface). Android uses AHardwareBuffer. watchOS has no public Metal (GPU blocked). tvOS GPU is available: OpenGL ES via ANGLE and Vulkan via MoltenVK, both to Metal.

Nix

macOS, the iOS family, Android, and Linux each want their own SDK. Nix builds the Rust core and C libraries from sibling wwn-* inputs (wwn-toolchain substrate, wwn-iland graphics, Weston, Niri, waypipe).

Other platforms

The same core ships across the Apple family and Android. Nested Weston and Niri are mandatory bundles on every product target.

Try it

CalVer builds: Download, TestFlight via Discord, or GitHub v* assets. Start with the docs or the FAQ.