Archiving in favour of the new section on the Sway Wiki: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway

letssway

Curated list of tools/scripts/etc to improve your sway and wayland experience

Menus/Launchers

• bemenu - dmenu replacement with Wayland support
• gmenu - terminal and GTK app launcher
• lavalauncher - launcher panel
• sgtk-menu - GTK app launcher
• wlogout - logout menu
• wofi - rofi replacement with Wayland support

Bars

• waybar - highly customisable status bar
• workstyle - autorename your workspaces in your bar to look nice

User Interface

• autotiling - automatically switch between splith/splitv
• azote - wallpaper manager
• grim - take screenshots
• imv - image viewer
• mako - notification daemon
• slurp - region selector (handy for grim)
• swaynagmode - wrapper for swaynag providing keyboard support
• swayvnc - VNC server
• sway-alttab - provides alt-tab support for switching to last focused window
• wob - overlayable progress bar

Input Devices

• i3keys - displays all keys that have been bound in your sway config
• kanshi - dynamic display configuration
• ydotool - xdotool replacement with Wayland support
• wev - a tool for debugging events on a Wayland window, analagous to the X11 tool xev.
• wl-gammctl - GUI app to set contrast, brightness and gamma
• wl-clipboard - command-line Wayland clipboard utility that lets you easily copy data between the clipboard and Unix pipes, sockets, files and so on.