Alternatives to IceWM
Compare IceWM alternatives for your business or organization using the curated list below. SourceForge ranks the best alternatives to IceWM in 2026. Compare features, ratings, user reviews, pricing, and more from IceWM competitors and alternatives in order to make an informed decision for your business.
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SmartWindows
SmartWindows
Do you write, play games, code, illustrate or edit images on your computer? Wouldn’t it be great if you could configure your windows in just the right places, and just the right sizes for each of these roles and then restore them at the click of a button? That’s exactly what SmartWindows let’s you do! Switch between your optimal coding, gaming, writing and other layouts. Save yourself minutes of time and improve your productivity every day with SmartWindows. Not only does SmartWindows save and restore the application positions but it also remembers and opens up the files. All your favorite applications such as Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Project, Notepad and Wordpad are supported. Love the flexibility and freedom afforded when using multiple monitors? No worries. Use multiple displays simultaneously because SmartWindows supports up to 6 monitors for restoring app positions on each display.Starting Price: $39.99 per year -
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SnapIt
Engin Kırmacı
Snap It is a window manager for Windows 10/11. Organizes your windows to improve your productivity when working with wide and multiple screens. Snap It is designed to be quick and simple. Divide screens into snapping areas. Move windows between snapping areas by dragging a window. Run applications and move to a specified area with one click. Snap windows using keyboard and mouse. Choose different layouts for each screen. Create custom layouts using the design tool. Set your theme for overlay and highlighting of areas. Customizable options for dragging windows. Predefined layouts for different use cases (vertical or horizontal screens). Supports different DPI and taskbar positions for each screen. Dark and light themes are available.Starting Price: $5.29 one-time payment -
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SnapToWindow
SnapToWindow
SnapToWindow is a cross-platform, keyboard-driven window management utility that lets you quickly and precisely arrange application windows to predefined positions using customizable hotkeys so you can organize your workspace without touching the mouse. It works consistently on both Windows and macOS, supports multi-monitor setups, and runs quietly from the system tray with minimal resource usage, automatically updating in the background. Built with Rust, Tauri, and TypeScript for native-class performance and a small footprint, it offers global keyboard shortcuts (e.g., Ctrl + Alt on Windows and Control + Option on macOS) for snapping windows to regions like left/right halves, top/bottom halves, thirds, and center, as well as maximizing windows, giving you full control of your layout with a few keystrokes.Starting Price: Free -
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WindowManager
DeskSoft
WindowManager helps you to improve your workflow by remembering and restoring the position and size of your programs and windows. Many programs don't remember their position and size between sessions and even Windows Explorer does not restore Windows to their last position under Windows 7 or higher. This is where WindowManager steps in and makes sure your windows are placed exactly where you want them every time you open them. WindowManager even allows you to lock the position and size of any window, so that it will always open at the same spot no matter where you move it. The window handling is fully customizable and you can set up special rules for your favorite or most frequently used windows. You can also make WindowManager send keystrokes or mouse clicks to a program when its window is opened, run additional programs, and other advanced actions. With WindowManager, you can also minimize most windows in the system tray.Starting Price: $15 one-time payment -
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herbstluftwm
herbstluftwm
The entire configuration happens at runtime via the tool herbstclient. So the configuration file is just a script that is run on startup. All configuration options, window rules, virtual desktops, and keybindings, can be updated live without the need to restart the window manager. Every virtual desktop (called tag) consists of a tiling and a floating layer. Windows in the tiling layer fill up the screen space and the floating windows can be placed freely above them. all monitors share the same pool of tags. You can switch the contents of two monitors with a single keystroke. -
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PositionPro
PositionPro Software
PositionPro — Window Position Manager for Windows 10 & 11 PositionPro saves and restores window positions automatically. No more dragging windows back into place after a reboot, monitor change, or laptop undock. Features Auto Save & Restore — Tracks window positions and restores them with Ctrl+Alt+R or automatically. Desktop Profiles — Create layouts for different tasks and switch instantly with Ctrl+Alt+1-9. Multi-Monitor Detection — Detects monitor connect/disconnect and switches to the right profile automatically. Snap Layouts — Arrange windows into side-by-side, stacked, columns, or quadrants instantly. App Launching — Profiles can launch missing apps so your full workspace is ready in seconds. Privacy-Focused — All data stored locally in JSON files. No cloud, no account, no internet needed. Lightweight — Minimal resources. Runs in the system tray and stays out of your way. $9.99 one-time from the Microsoft Store. No subscription, no ads.Starting Price: $9.99 -
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Magnet
Magnet
Activated by dragging, customizable keyboard shortcuts or via menu bar, Magnet declutters your screen by snapping windows into organized tiles. Having multiple windows aligned neatly side by side eliminates app switching and greatly enhances multitasking. Fullscreen, halves, quarters & thirds. Up to six external displays are supported. The potential combinations are endless. Drag windows to the corners and Magnet snaps them into quarters. Use side edges to arrange horizontal and vertical halves. Dragging to the top edge maximizes window size on a given screen. Bottom edge creates thirds. Slide on it to expand into two-thirds. Quarters and halves reside in the corners and on the bottom edge.Starting Price: $9.99 one-time payment -
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Byobu
Byobu
It was originally designed to provide elegant enhancements to the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen, for the Ubuntu server distribution. Byobu now includes an enhanced profile, convenient keybindings, configuration utilities, and toggle-able system status notifications for both the GNU Screen window manager and the more modern Tmux terminal multiplexer, and works on most Linux, BSD, and Mac distributions. Byobu includes an enhanced profile, configuration utilities, and system status notifications for the GNU screen window manager as well as the Tmux terminal multiplexer. Byobu is developed and released as free software under the GPLv3.Starting Price: Free -
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SMBAct
SMBlob.com
Your personal assistant to simplify the process of interacting with all your windows and applications. All-in-one cross-platform window manager and switcher. Solve window management in a consistent way across three (Windows, MacOS, Linux) platforms. Get both window manager and window switcher in one application. Embed any website to the frameless window with the topmost functionality. Activation of any window on active display, main display, or where there is a mouse pointer, fast-moving of windows between displays, and hiding all windows only on active display. For multi-windows applications, when the target window disappears and you use the keyboard shortcut again, it will display a notification informing you that the window has been lost. So the user can use the fix/same keyboard shortcut to target a new window and ask the user to set a new keyboard shortcut to bring this window to the front.Starting Price: €8 one-time payment -
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WS Grid+
WizardSoft
WS Grid+ is an accessible window manager for Windows 10. It helps you make order out of many chaotic program windows scattered across your screen. It lets you move and/or resize the active window using a grid selection system. It also provides keyboard/mouse shortcuts to instantly move and resize a window with no need to reach for its title bar. Finally, it gives you useful shortcuts to the Windows 10 virtual desktops feature. Double-tap key CTRL (or ALT + F1) to open/move the panel at/to the current mouse pointer's location. Use the mouse to make a grid selection. The active application window will duplicate the chosen relative position and size. Press CTRL while clicking on a grid cell to only change the window's position and leave its size as-is. Press the key ESC to close the panel (no focus needed). Resize the active window to preset dimensions and reposition to make it completely visible if needed.Starting Price: $6.72 one-time payment -
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FancyZones
Microsoft
FancyZones is a window manager utility for arranging and snapping windows into efficient layouts to improve the speed of your workflow and restore layouts quickly. FancyZones allows you to define a set of zone locations to be used as targets for Windows on your desktop. When you drag a window into a zone or enter the associated keyboard shortcut, the window is resized and repositioned to fill that zone. You can also trigger zone selection mode by clicking the non-primary mouse button if the "Use non-primary mouse button to toggle zone activation" setting is enabled. If two zones are adjacent, a window can be snapped to the sum of their area (rounded to the minimum rectangle that contains both). When the mouse cursor is near the common edge of two zones, both zones are activated simultaneously, allowing you to drop the window into both zones. You can drag the window until one zone is activated, then press and hold the control key while dragging the window to select multiple zones.Starting Price: Free -
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Windows File Explorer
Microsoft
File Explorer is the default file manager on Windows operating systems. File Explorer in Windows 11 helps you get the files you need quickly and easily. To check it out in Windows 11, select it on the taskbar or the Start menu, or press the Windows logo key + E on your keyboard. How to use File Explorer: To pin a folder to Quick access, right-click (or press and hold) the folder and select Pin to Quick access. To share a file, select it, then select Share on the ribbon. To move the location of a file or folder, select it and then select Cut on the ribbon. Navigate to the new location, then select Paste.Starting Price: Free -
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Wins
Wins
Wins is a window management tool for macOS designed to enhance productivity by providing system-level window arrangement features. It offers a range of functionalities to streamline window organization and improve workflow efficiency. **Key Features:** **Mission Control Pro:** Enhance Mission Control with fast window closing and app exiting. **Dock Preview:** Hover over the Dock to preview all windows. **Floating Split Window:** Drag windows to activate a floating split window for quick arrangement. **System Level Integration:** Integrated directly into System Settings for a seamless user experience. **Keyboard Shortcuts:** Customizable keyboard shortcuts to trigger window layouts. **Shake Window to Hide Others:** Focus on one window by shaking to hide others. **Move to Another Display:** Easily move windows between displays.Starting Price: $13.99/lifetime -
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Moom
Moom
Moom makes window management as easy as clicking a mouse button—or using a keyboard shortcut, if you're one of those types of people. With Moom, you can easily move and zoom windows to half screen, quarter screen, or fill the screen; set custom sizes and locations, and save layouts of opened windows for one-click positioning. Once you've tried Moom, you'll wonder how you used your Mac without it. Hover the mouse over any window's green button, and Moom's pop-up palette appears. Quickly fill the screen, or move and resize to vertical or horizontal halves on screen edges. Want quarter-size windows instead? Hold down the Option key, and the palette presents four quarter-size corner options, along with center without resizing.Starting Price: $10 one-time payment -
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DisplayFusion
Binary Fortress Software
Use DisplayFusion's window management feature to easily move windows between your monitors. Whether you use the simple middle-click move, or the more advanced maximized window dragging, managing your desktop windows has never been so easy. You can even show tooltips when moving or resizing windows to help you position them precisely. Automatically move child dialogs and windows to the same monitor as the parent window. Mouse management options allow you to scroll inactive windows with the mouse wheel, wrap the mouse cursor at screen edges, and prevent the mouse cursor from snagging on unaligned monitor edges. Left-click a maximized window's title bar and drag it to the monitor you would like it to be on. DisplayFusion will show a monitor selector to help you choose the monitor. You'll never need to restore the window, drag it to the monitor and re-maximize it again. Just click, drag and you're done. DisplayFusion will take care of the details for you.Starting Price: $34 one-time payment -
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WindowGrid
WindowGrid
Allows the user to quickly and easily layout their windows on a dynamic grid using just the mouse. Gives functionality to the normally useless right mouse button when moving a window. Doing this will enable the grid snap mode. Simple to control, portable, and Installable. Works with Aerosnap, not intrusive. Grid overlay can be customized, can auto-update, and has customizable input. Supports Windows Vista (SP2), 7 (SP1), 8, 8.1 & 10. Saved window locations and theme customization. Grid overlay can sometimes be delayed. The WindowGrid32.dll may need to be added to some virus scanners' exclusion lists. Problems when moving non-DPI-aware windows between monitors with DPI scaling. WindowGrid is a modern window management program for Windows. Move the cursor to select the starting grid position of the window.Starting Price: Free -
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ZMover
Basta Computing
ZMover helps you manage your desktop layout by enabling you to set the size, position, layering and state of other application windows. Instead of wasting time rearranging windows across your single or multiple monitor display, you can configure ZMover to do the job for you. Simply tell ZMover which windows you want to modify and how, then hide the program and let it work in the background. ZMover will monitor the desktop and automatically reposition, resize, or even keep selected windows below or above the others when they open. ZMover lets you manage windows across several monitors with ease. The number of applications lacking multiple monitor support and the increased desktop space offered by such setups make it more difficult to maintain an optimal desktop layout. ZMover eliminates these difficulties with its ability to define window layouts for different monitor configurations.Starting Price: $19.95/user -
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Spencer for Mac
Pineapple Kamil Daniel
Spencer for Mac is a new window manager with a completely unique approach. It solves the biggest problem with virtual desktops — restoring app windows exactly where they were saved. It’s especially useful when switching between different display setups (for example, work and home), disconnecting a MacBook from an external monitor, or even after a system restart. The huge advantage is that there’s no need to configure anything — just click Save and then Restore. The whole process takes only a few seconds, and that’s all the user needs to do. It goes further: Spencer can adjust the number of Spaces depending on your monitor setup or the active workspace. You can switch between custom workspaces (e.g. “Work”, “Meetings”, “Relax”), with the right apps launching, the others hidden, and full multi-monitor support. It’s like having a perfectly organized desktop environment on demand.Starting Price: $0 -
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Stack
Lost Tech
A must-have tool for large screens or multiple monitors. Stack is a productivity tool, that helps move windows around. Divide screens into arbitrary zones. Quickly move windows between zones. Customizable hotkeys and mouse drag. Group windows into tabbed areas. Stack vertically or horizontally within a zone. High DPI support and highly customizable layout, based on XAML. With v2.1 we are adding an ability to create and share custom widgets, that can be put on Stack layouts. The initial release of Stack v2.1 contains a single sample widget, and a small amount of composable tools, that enable the creation of more complicated data-rich widgets inline inside your layouts. Stack can now automatically assign most newly opened windows to their closest zone. You can now change which mouse button is used to drag windows between zones. We've added an ability to assign hotkey combinations to move the active window to the zone.Starting Price: $5.86 one-time payment -
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MaxTo
MaxTo
The window manager you didn't know you missed. Divide your screen, and increase your productivity made for Windows. It is easy to divide your monitor into the exact regions you want. The window will automatically go into the region underneath the mouse cursor. You can keep a different set of regions open on each virtual desktop. Use our handy setting to choose if you want each virtual desktop to have its own set of profiles. With MaxTo's presets, you can quickly load up your favorite regions whenever you need them. The quickest way to load a set of regions is by assigning a keyboard shortcut. You can see a preview of the presets you are applying when you edit your regions. Launch and place multiple programs at once. Using our powerful recipe features, you can start the programs you need, and place them where you want them. Anything you do using keyboard shortcuts can be done with scripts.Starting Price: €19 per year -
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Mosaico
Soulid Studio
Organize your desktop in 3 simple steps. Create and restore any desktop layout with Mosaico. Easily organize your desktop using Mosaico. Simply drag windows and they will automatically fit a predefined position. Save a desktop layout for each of your activities. All window positions and sizes are stored in a snapshot. Recall any saved layout with a single click. Windows will run and resize at its original position. Save time and improve your productivity with Mosaico! Organize your desktop creating a custom layout for each activity: work, internet, gaming, files, etc. With Mosaico, you can easily move windows and they will automatically fit a predefined position on the screen. Capture their position and size on screen so that you can recall that layout later. Switch between layouts with a single click, or with your own keyboard combination. Mosaico is ideal when you work with many windows open.Starting Price: $19.99 one-time payment -
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Divvy
Mizage
Managing windows can be frustrating, requiring precision control of your mouse or trackpad for clicking, dragging, pushing, and pulling your windows to the size and position you desire. Even with all this work, it’s very difficult to get windows exactly where you want them, so most of the time windows are left scattered all over the screen. Divvy is an entirely new way of managing your workspace. It allows you to quickly and efficiently “divvy up” your screen into exact portions. With Divvy, it’s as simple as a single click and drag in the Divvy interface and your window will be resized and moved to a relative portion of the screen. If that seems like too much work, you can go ahead and create as many different shortcuts as you’d like that resize and move your windows. Divvy is designed to be quick, simple, and elegant. We want it to stay out of your way as much as possible while providing the most powerful window management available today.Starting Price: $13.99 one-time payment -
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BetterSnapTool
BetterSnapTool
BetterSnapTool allows you to easily manage your window positions and sizes by either dragging them to one of the screen's corners or to the top, left, or right side of the screen. This enables you to easily maximize your windows, position them side by side or even resize them to quarters of the screen. If you need even more than those standard snap areas, BetterSnapTool now allows you to create your own, custom snap areas anywhere on your display. Other features include custom keyboard shortcuts, customizing clicks on window buttons, moving/resizing windows by holding a key, and many more. -
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VEEER
VEEER
VEEER was built with maximizing your workflow speed in mind - which makes it an essential designer & developer productivity tool. Being a designer, developer or someone who works long days on the Mac, you need a tool that lets you arrange and move windows quickly. VEEER lets you to drag and control your windows by just activating the activation keys and double-clicking inside the window or dragging the window – without having to use the window title bar. When working with multiple windows, for example when importing/exporting files or working in multiple applications simultaneously, switching between each window by minimizing and maximizing can cost a lot of time. -
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bspwm
bspwm
bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. It only responds to X events and the messages it receives on a dedicated socket. bspc is a program that writes messages on bspwm's socket. bspwm doesn't handle any keyboard or pointer inputs: a third-party program (e.g. sxhkd) is needed in order to translate keyboard and pointer events to bspc invocations. Monitors only show the tree of one desktop at a time (their focused desktop). The tree is a partition of a monitor's rectangle into smaller rectangular regions. -
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SuperPuTTY
Jim Radford
The SuperPuTTY window manager for putty sessions. SuperPuTTY is a Windows-based application that manages putty ssh terminals. Additionally, it has a simple scripting language for basic tasks. It additionally supports RDP sessions. SuperPuTTY is used primarily as a window manager and multi-session manager for the PuTTY SSH Client. It allows you to embed PuTTY terminal instances inside of windows form providing a better-tabbed interface when multiple connections are used. Additionally, SuperPuTTY has support for using pscp.exe to transfer files to and from a remote host. Local terminal sessions can be started with MinTTY, as well as RDP, PowerShell, and other terminal applications. SuperPuTTY does not do any ssh or terminal management itself since PuTTY does an excellent job of this. SuperPuTTY as of v1.4.0.7 is available with an installer. SuperPuTTY is also available as a portable ZIP file, Simply unzip the files to a chosen location on your local disk.Starting Price: Free -
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TaskLayout
SystemGoods
TaskLayout is a productivity app for Windows designed to set up your desktop for work in seconds. No adware, malware, or spyware, professional tools for effective work-. Try before buy, it provides fast and responsive support. This tool allows to save and restore Windows desktop layout (a set of running applications with corresponding positions on the screen) with an assigned hotkey. Set up your working configuration on the desktop, launch applications, open folders, and arrange windows into suitable locations on the desktop. Save the layout with TaskLayout, and assign a hotkey for open/close. Use these hotkeys to instantly restore/discard your desktop in seconds. Application/command Launcher, set up custom commands to start it with an assigned hotkey. By default, TaskLayout works as a launcher and Window repositioning tool in one. Automatically retrieve and preserve startup commands assigned to selected windows. Run commands (if required) and arrange windows on the desktop. -
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awesome
awesome
awesome is a highly configurable, next-generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with everyday computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on their graphical environment. A window manager is probably one of the most used software applications in your day-to-day tasks, along with your web browser, mail reader and text editor. Power users and programmers have a big range of choice between several tools for these day-to-day tasks. Some are heavily extensible and configurable. awesome tries to complete these tools with what we miss: an extensible, highly configurable window manager.Starting Price: Free -
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PuTTYTray
PuTTYTray
Minimizing to the system tray (on CTRL + minimize, always, or directly on startup) Icons are customizable. Blinks tray icon when a bell signal is received. Configurable window transparency. URL hyperlinking, portability, optionally stores session configuration in files (for example, on a USB drive) like portaPuTTY. Easy access to the 'always on top setting (in the system menu). Android adb support. Load sessions from files using the command line. Automatically selects 'sessions from file' when the registry does not contain any sessions. Now built against PuTTy 0.61, getting features like Windows 7 Jumplist and Aero support. Executables now signed, should (eventually) make IE less angry; no code changes. URLs submenu, for easier keyboard access. Restore compatibility with older computers. Code signing certificate, and timestamping, no more certificate errors. Originally compiled by Barry Haanstra, now maintained by Chris West (Faux).Starting Price: Free -
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Rectangle Mac
Rectangle Mac
Rectangle is a window management solution designed specifically for MacOS that makes it easy to manage your screen space, allowing you to be more productive and organized. The application is designed with simplicity and ease of use in mind, allowing users to quickly and easily adjust the size and position of their windows. In this article, we will explore the features of Rectangle and how they can help you maximize your screen space and improve your workflow.Starting Price: $4.99 -
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AquaSnap
Nurgo Software
Drag and drop your windows to the sides or corners of the screen, and they'll automatically be resized to fit one-half or one-quarter of the screen. This feature is just like the built-in Aero Snap function of Windows 10, but with more possibilities. This is especially useful on either a 4K monitor or multiple monitors. Be more productive with the best tiling window manager for Windows. Sometimes, splitting your desktop into halves or quarters is not ideal. When two windows are side-by-side, resizing one of them while pressing will also resize the other one. It's an easy and powerful way to modify the layout of several tiled windows. AquaSnap allows you to easily align your windows by making them behave like magnets. This simple feature is the cornerstone of AquaSnap, and has been carefully designed to assist you without getting in your way so you don't waste your desktop space.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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Amethyst
Amethyst
Tiling window manager for macOS along the lines of xmonad. If you want to learn more about tiling window managers and the features of Amethyst there are some great community resources on YouTube.Starting Price: Free -
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Swish
Swish
Swish features 30 easy-to-use titlebar, dock and menubar gestures that will supercharge your workflow and make you a trackpad power user. Every detail is carefully designed to make it feel truly native to macOS. Your desktop never looked so clean. Swish is the only window manager to truly honor the macOS look. Swish automatically detects your multi-monitor setup. Just flick to move windows between screens. Working with spaces also gets a major productivity boost. No more accidentally opening mission control while dragging windows to the to top or fumbling around on screen edges. Also, Swish lets you manage screens & spaces and does much more than just snapping windows.Starting Price: $7.07 one-time payment -
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TidyTabs
Nurgo Software
TidyTabs is a tool that brings tabbed browsing to all of your programs. If you ever wanted to have Chrome-style tabs in Windows Explorer, Microsoft Office, or PuTTY, TidyTabs does just that. It integrates nicely with the OS and you will feel like the multi-tab functionality is a core part of Windows. Organize your windows and free up space on your desktop. Now that all your windows have a draggable tab, you can easily organize them into logically related groups. Just drag one tab onto another and create a tabbed group. Tabs can be detached from a group and inserted into another one. You can even group windows from different applications together. With one click, save a group so that your applications are automatically grouped and placed as you wish the next time you open them. Or define advanced auto-grouping rules for the most complex scenarios. It takes just a few minutes to fully automate your tab management.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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Singlebox
WebCatalog
If you are overwhelmed by managing multiple accounts and tabs, Singlebox brings all your web apps, messaging services, and emails into one window, boosting productivity and simplifying your workflow. One window for everything you do on the internet. Manage multiple accounts from Google, Microsoft, and more, without the hassle of logging in and out. Whether for work or personal use, Singlebox keeps everything at your fingertips. Run websites in isolated environments and get protected from cross-website trackers. Manage and switch between multiple accounts and apps easily without switching browsers. Sync apps, accounts, and settings across all your computers. Attach web apps to the menu bar (tray) for quick access with keyboard shortcuts. Use passwords or touch IDs to lock apps when you're not at your desk. Block ads, stop trackers from accessing your personal data, and speed up websites.Starting Price: Free -
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Computer File Explorer
Byte Mobile
Computer is a free, full-featured file explorer, designed to support multiple tabs and windows opened side-by-side. It provides access to pictures, music, video, documents, and other files on both your Android devices and your computers. File explorer: manage your documents like you do on your desktop or laptop. Switching to other programs, uninstall or view any app's system management page. Launched applications are also in the taskbar. Built-in media viewer and player for various media formats, including photos, music, and videos. Supports tabs and side-by-side windows, so you can open multiple folders at the same time.Starting Price: Free -
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Ashampoo ZIP Free
Ashampoo
Nearly all computer users come across file archives in different formats, e.g. the widespread ZIP format. Compressed files are easy to store and share. Ashampoo ZIP Free bundles essential features like reading and writing of archives in a single free application. Ashampoo ZIP Free supports comfort features such as jump lists and the display of progress on taskbar icons for Windows 7 and Windows 8. The user interface employs the Windows 8 tile-based design with quick access to all essential features. And just like in Windows 8, tiles can be rearranged for personalization. Ashampoo ZIP Free compresses and decompresses all common formats via a simple mouse click thanks to its Windows Explorer integration. Create, convert and repair archives fast, easy, and free of charge. Its beautiful graphical interface is very intuitive, and easy to use. Powerful integration with Windows Explorer Shell, both 32bit and 64bit.Starting Price: Free -
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Hyprland
Hyprland
Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that combines the latest Wayland innovations with smooth, eye-pleasing animations and a lightweight, responsive core. It offers automatic tiling with multiple fine-tunable layouts, rounded corners, and customizable window groups, plus global shortcuts and touchpad gesture support for fluid interaction. Its live-reloading, easy-to-read configuration format, and sensible defaults make setup and tuning straightforward, while comprehensive documentation guides users through advanced tweaks. A single, socket-based IPC system and a powerful plugin architecture let you extend and script every aspect of your workflow, whether by writing custom C++ extensions, leveraging community plugins, or controlling Hyprland via bindings in your favorite language. With native Wayland features like motion-smooth transitions, tear-free rendering, and modular window rules, Hyprland unlocks full control over your desktop without sacrificing performance.Starting Price: Free -
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Winux
Winux
Winux is a Linux-based operating system designed to replicate the look and feel of Microsoft Windows while maintaining the flexibility and performance of a Linux distribution. Built on Ubuntu, it uses a customized desktop environment that closely mimics Windows 10 and Windows 11, including a familiar Start menu, taskbar, icons, and overall interface, making it easier for users transitioning from Windows to adapt quickly. It does not require strict hardware features such as TPM or Secure Boot, allowing it to run on older or less powerful machines while still delivering fast boot times and responsive performance. Winux includes compatibility layers like Wine, enabling users to run Windows applications such as .exe and .msi files directly within the system, alongside native Linux software and package support through Snap and Flatpak.Starting Price: Free -
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Keyran
Keyran
Keyran is a program designed for professional automation and running macros on mouse and keyboard. With this utility you can automate actions in MMO games and business processes, suppress recoil in online shooters and much more. Cloud storage of the program , has more than 11000 ready-made templates for various scenarios. The utility has a flexible macro editor containing options to move by coordinates, define colors, change keyboard language, loops, random delay between commands, record keyboard and mouse actions. In the program settings there is a function of working in incognito mode, which allows you to hide the program in system processes. The main features of the utility are: • Multi-user mode; • Minimization to the system tray; • Binding to a certain window; • Installation of macros on keyboard shortcuts; • Compatibility with any peripherals; • Amc format support.Starting Price: $3 -
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i3
i3
i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. The target platforms are GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems, our code is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) under the BSD license. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers. Based upon the experiences we made when wanting to hack/fix wmii, we agreed upon the following goals for i3. This includes being modifiable by people who do know how to program but who are not necessarily familiar with all of X11’s internals. That is, document why things happen and when they happen so that the user gets a picture of the whole process a Window Manager is responsible of by just reading the source code. Implement multi-monitor correctly, that is by assigning each workspace to a virtual screen. Especially make sure that attaching and detaching new monitors like video projectors works during operation and do the right thing. Also, provide support for rotated monitors.Starting Price: Free -
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Firework by Startpack
Firework
Firework turns web applications and sites into desktop applications. Instant loading time, pinned to the taskbar, easy to switch between. Open your web destinations as desktop applications in a dedicated window. You’ll never lose them again among the dozens of open tabs of a web browser. Pin your favorite web applications to the taskbar to keep them at hand. Instantly switch to your favorite web applications just by clicking on corresponding icons within the taskbar or by using hotkeys. Access your web applications and websites with ease and be more productive saving your time. Web applications go desktop! Quickly switch between them, move windows side by side as you want, use shortcuts for the fastest access. Don’t get distracted by random websites anymore, stay focused on your tasks and achieve more. Firework is an application based on Chromium, there’s nothing either heavyweight or complex in there. Firework is just a convenient tool for time-saving.Starting Price: $2.99 per month -
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Microsoft Paint
Microsoft
Classic Microsoft Paint should already be on your Windows PC. In the search box next to Start on the taskbar, type paint and then select Paint from the list of results. If you have the latest version of Windows 10 and want to try something new, open Paint 3D featuring new 2D and 3D tools. It's free and ready to go. Paint is still part of Windows. To open Paint, type paint in the search box on the taskbar, and then select Paint from the list of results. With the Windows 10 Creators Update, try creating in three dimensions with Paint 3D. In addition to the new 3D capabilities, many of the classic 2D features from Microsoft Paint are available to use. Paint 3D is the latest evolution of classic Paint, with a ton of new art tools to try on your 2D canvas or 3D objects. Explore the brushes and tools in Paint 3D from the Art tools menu. First, choose a color from the color palette, or use the eyedropper to pick up a color already in your workspace. -
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xmonad
xmonad
In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. XMonad makes work easier, by automating this. An Update for our Sponsors—and a Request. It has been a little bit over a year since XMonad version 0.17.0 was released; this was also the time in when we first started looking for funding. On the whole, the number of people who decided to support us has been astounding: thank you! While our expenses are completely transparent, it can be hard to keep up if you’re not directly involved in the project. xmonad automates the common task of arranging windows, so you can concentrate on getting stuff done. Haskell and smart programming practices guarantee a crash-free experience. -
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Qtile
Qtile
Optimize your workflow by configuring your environment to fit how you work. Efficiently use screen real estate by automatically arranging windows with minimal visual cruft. It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets, and built-in commands. There's always someone to lend a hand when you need help. Leverage the full power and flexibility of the language to make it fit your needs. We aim to always support the last three versions of CPython, the reference Python interpreter. We usually support the latest stable version of PyPy as well. You can check the versions and interpreters we currently run our test suite against in our tox configuration file. -
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Boss Key
MindGems
Boss Key will hide the windows (programs) from the screen with the press of a hot-key or a mouse shortcut. It will cover all the tracks of the running programs by hiding them also from the task bar and the system tray. In addition to that Boss Key will not close the applications, but keep them hidden in the background thus preserving all the data at the point of interruption. When the threat has passed hitting the bosskey shortcut will restore the work to the point before the interruption. Boss Key can also mute the sound, switch the display resolution (if a full screen game or movie is on the display), start (bring to top if running) an application and many more. Please take a look at the features list for more details. Bosskey's size is diminished to reduce memory usage without making compromises to the features in order to run without disturbing your usual work. It's speed is brought to maximum to react as quickly as possible to any threat that appears.Starting Price: Free -
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Antamedia Kiosk Software
Antamedia
Turn any computer into a self-service Kiosk. Kiosk software securely displays your website or application and reduces maintenance time. Internet Kiosk software converts computer into self-service kiosk. It prevents hacking and downtime, blocks the system keys like Ctrl-Alt-Del, restricts access to the system, desktop, drives, folders and programs. You can use it to securely display your website or application, show marketing messages and advertisements, bill for Internet use, games or office applications, sell tickets for WiFi HotSpot around your kiosk, and much more. Kiosk software replaces system shell and blocks access to the Windows Explorer, drives, desktop and taskbar. It prevents access to the Windows system files, standard browser menus and prevents hacking and downtime.Starting Price: $27 one-time payment -
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ConEmu
ConEmu
ConEmu-Maximus5 aims to be handy, comprehensive, fast and reliable terminal window where you may host any console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash). As Windows console window enhancement (local terminal emulator), ConEmu presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications (like PuTTY for example) as one customizable tabbed GUI window with various features. ConEmu starts a console program in a hidden console window, and provides an alternative customizable GUI window with various features. Smooth and friendly window resizing; tabs for editors, viewers, panels and consoles. Run simple GUI apps like PuTTY in tabs. Windows 7 Jump Lists and Progress on Taskbar buttons. Easily run old DOS applications (games) in Windows 7 or 64-bit OS. Thumbnails and tiles in Far Manager. Normal, maximized and full screen graphical window modes. -
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Memory Cleaner
Koshy John
Tech-savvy folk are divided over how useful memory cleaning tools can be because Windows (Vista upwards at least) manage memory reasonably well. Most memory cleaning tools are not very useful because many of them use ill-advised techniques that are only relevant to older versions of Windows (pre-Vista). Memory Cleaner is considerably better because it uses functions built into Windows to judiciously free memory - with no performance impact whatsoever. You can now access Memory Cleaner functions from the tray icon without having to open up the main window. The cleaning procedures are both silent and the only alert you will see is the amount of RAM recovered briefly displayed in the window.Starting Price: Free -
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ArsClip
ArsClip
ArsClip is a freeware "clipboard manager" utility. ArsClip monitors the clipboard and keeps track of the entries. Pasting is done by using a triggered popup window. This window can be triggered by a hotkey, holding right-click, a special trigger window, and other methods. ArsClip runs on the system tray and monitors for new clipboard clips. When you need to paste an older clip, activate the ArsClip popup window and click on the clip. The popup window can be activated many ways, but the most common way is to use a global hotkey. By default, this hotkey is defined to CTRL+Shift+Z and can be changed. When data is copied to the Windows clipboard, ArsClip makes a copy of the clip. By default, ArsClip stores up to 15 clips of the most recent in memory. Once this cache of Popup Clips is full, the oldest clip is moved to the Removed Clips cache.Starting Price: Free
