The Best 83 Optimal Layout Alternatives

  • Shiftit icon

    Shiftit

    ShiftIt is an application for OSX that allows you to quickly manipulate window position and size using keyboard shortcuts. It intends to become a full featured window organizer for OSX.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • Divvy icon

    Divvy

    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 is as simple as calling up the interface, clicking and dragging.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • Preme for Windows icon

    Preme for Windows

    Preme is a free software for Windows which lets you add cool desktop features and enhances the desktop functionality.

    Free Windows

  • altdrag icon

    altdrag

    AltDrag allows you to move and resize windows much easier. When you have it running you can simply hold down the Alt key and then use your mouse to drag any window, and it doesn't matter where in the window you click.

    Free Open Source Windows

    Portable Snap windows Window Resizing
  • RBTray icon

    RBTray

    Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • AutoSizer icon

    AutoSizer

    AutoSizer automatically resizes programs for you, keeping them at a specific size or keeping them maximized. One popular use is to keep Internet Explorer maximized when you go on the web.

    Free Windows

  • DM2 icon

    DM2

    DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating icons® (unique feature!) freeing both task bar and tray bar space.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • GridMove icon

    GridMove

    GridMove - A window management tool that can quickly arrange your windows into desktop grids. GridMove is a program that aims at making windows management easier.

    Free Open Source Free Personal Windows

  • Cinch icon

    Cinch

    Cinch is Aero Snap for Macs- it offers simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as hot zones.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • HyperDock icon

    HyperDock

    HyperDock adds Windows 7 like features and more to Mac OS X. Select individual application windows & tabs just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Moom icon

    Moom

    Moom allows you to easily move and zoom windows to predefined areas of the screen, or to make them full-screen, using either the mouse or the keyboard.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • PowerMenu icon

    PowerMenu

    PowerMenu is a small application that some extra menu items to the windows control menu in addition to the standard "Close", "Maximize", etc options.

    Free Windows Windows Explorer

  • MaxTo icon

    MaxTo

    MaxTo is a small Windows program that divides your monitors into regions. When you maximize a window, it will no longer fit the entire screen, but only the region it was maximized into.

    Commercial Windows