The Best 83 Optimal Layout Alternatives

  • eXtra Buttons icon

    eXtra Buttons

    eXtra Buttons lets you add up to 10 additional buttons to the title bar of each window, which allow you to minimize the window to the tray, keep it on-top, send it to the background, adjust the window's transparency and more.

    Free Windows Windows Explorer

    Windows Explorer extension On top
  • SizeUp icon

    SizeUp

    SizeUp allows you to quickly position a window to fill exactly half the screen (splitscreen), a quarter of the screen (quadrant), full screen, or centered via the menu bar or configurable system-wide shortcuts (hotkeys).

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Amethyst icon

    Amethyst

    Amethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • TaskSpace icon

    TaskSpace

    TaskSpace is a simple Windows application intended to group ANY applications in a single window(task space) to provide fast and easy access to multiple applications simultaneously(no Alt+Tab switching and/or searching for a program in the...

    Free Personal Windows Windows Explorer

    Portable Tabbed browsing Windows Explorer extension
  • Magnet (Windows Manager) icon

    Magnet (Windows Manager)

    Every time you want to copy content from one app to the other, compare files side by side or multitask in any other way, you need all the windows arranged accordingly....

    Commercial

  • Windownaut icon

    Windownaut

    Windownaut is versatile window management app that let's you define keyboard shortcuts and active areas on your screen to resize an position the windows on your...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Ghoster icon

    Ghoster

    Dims all windows except the active one. Features: - Place a transparent image across the screen. - Highly configurable.

    Free Windows

  • TaskLayout icon

    TaskLayout

    TaskLayout is a small portable Windows utility which allow saving/restoring of desktop layout (a set of specified apps/windows with corresponding position on screen) in...

    Free Personal Windows

  • WinNumpad Position icon

    WinNumpad Position

    WinNumpad Positioner is a lightweight and snappy Windows management tool that repositions Windows using simple Windows Key + Numpad combinations.

    Free Windows

  • FreeSnap icon

    FreeSnap

    Ever try to size a window so it just touches the edge of the screen? It’s tedious (at least for me). FreeSnap allows you to instantly resize any window edge to the...

    Free Windows

  • KWin icon

    KWin

    KWin is a window manager for the X Window System, and is in the process of becoming a Wayland compositor. It is an integral part, and the default window manager of the...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • MaxSnap icon

    MaxSnap

    MaxSnap is a powerful window manager which lets you: - Move, arrange, and resize windows with menu-bar icon or keyboard shortcuts - Option/Alt-Drag - move and resize...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • NiftyWindows icon

    NiftyWindows

    Welcome to NiftyWindows! This free tool provides many helpful features for an easier handling of your Windows (c) operating system. It does not need any complex...

    Free Windows

  • Sawfish icon

    Sawfish

    Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Mjolnir icon

    Mjolnir

    mjolnir - Lightweight automation and productivity app for OS X Mjolnir is an OS X app that lets you automate common tasks using the language Lua. At its core, it...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X