Fences AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Desktop Customization Tools
The best Desktop Customization alternative to Fences is Portals: Desktop Organization, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Fences and ten of them are Desktop Customization Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Desktop Customization Tool alternatives to Fences are iTop Easy Desktop, Sideslide, Nimi Places and Folderview Screenlet.
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12 Portals: Desktop Organization alternativesCreate containers (aka Portals) on your desktop which show the contents of a specified folder. Divide your desktop into folders then use Portals to display the contents of the folders in an organized fashion - you can even hide the folders away somewhere else.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Windows
Portals: Desktop Organization VS Fences
Comments about Portals: Desktop Organization as an Alternative to Fences
Free and beautiful. A must have.
20 iTop Easy Desktop alternativesiTop Easy Desktop is a free and easy-to-use desktop manager to organize your desktop apps, files, and folders according to your rules, freeing you from laboriously sorting desktop icons. It delivers various practical features including but not limited to grouping desktop items...
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- Free • Proprietary
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Country of Origin
Hong Kong SAR China
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- Windows
iTop Easy Desktop VS Fences
Comments about iTop Easy Desktop as an Alternative to Fences
Most Recent CommentbitooleanIt automatically manages new icons added to the desktop by installers repetitively every time that software gets updated by remembering which container they are assigned to and thus avoiding having to manage duplicates manually.
phantasmrevolutionaryCoodeDesker, StarDock Fences and iTop Easy Desktop are the only softwares for desktop (professional-looking specifically) organization via containers that are worth trying. iTop Easy Desktop might be the worst of those 3, but it's the one that has a free option.
heartilyBest free alternative to Fences.
21 Sideslide alternativesSideSlide is an advanced, portable, unobtrusive, dockable, skinnable, instantly accessible, highly configurable Desktop Extension on Steroids! Clean desktop clutter and make your computer friendlier and faster than ever before.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Windows
Sideslide Features
Sideslide VS Fences
Comments about Sideslide as an Alternative to Fences
Most Recent CommentVery full featured program with a steep learning curve, but it's worth it.
Because it's not similar and easy to use like Fences that is a very intuitive application
It's a very comprehensive program with lots of features that can change the way you work with Windows.
16 Nimi Places alternativesOrganizes desktop into customizable containers - showing folders (e.g.: local folders, network locations) contents, displayed as icons/thumbnails on scrollable surface. In-built thumbnail engine is capable of displaying thumbnails for supported Open Documents and PSD images, but...
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- Free Personal • Proprietary
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- Windows
Nimi Places VS Fences
Comments about Nimi Places as an Alternative to Fences
Top Positive CommentFree, and it works almost the same. Just has a little more setup than Fences does.
Top Negative CommentThis performs ONE of Fences' secondary functions: displaying the contents of directories OTHER THAN the Desktop as virtual containers on the Desktop. IT IS NOT for organizing Desktop icons/files or setting up automatic rules for categorization of new Desktop icons/files.
Most Recent CommentNimi Places is not an exact replica of Fences, but(!) it will give you the look and feel. Instead of everything being on your desktop, it links it a folder. I am just going to change my behavior a tad and just know that my files, when placed in the fence, are not stored on the actual desktop. I still have easy access to move the files between the desktop to fence and vice versa, which is most important to me.
7 Folderview Screenlet alternativesFolderview Screenlet is a Linux alternative to Fences (which is for Windows).
License model
- Free • Proprietary
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- Linux
- Screenlets
DiscontinuedThe program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.9.9, released in August 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Folderview Screenlet Features
Folderview Screenlet VS Fences
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Windows
Coodesker Features
Coodesker VS Fences
Comments about Coodesker as an Alternative to Fences
phantasmrevolutionaryby far the best alternative to Stardock Fences, better even than Stardock Fences itself.
DeskFrame VS Fences
9 ToolBox alternativesToolBox is an application launcher for Windows operating systems with many amazing features. Easy to install, you can get going in minutes. Its drag & drop interface creates shortcuts to almost anything; applications, drives, folders, even simple files.
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- Free Personal • Proprietary
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- Windows
DiscontinuedThe program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.97h, released in May 2011, can be still downloaded from the official website.
ToolBox VS Fences
12 DesktopShelves alternativesDesktopShelves helps you fight the clutter on your desktop by organizing files on shelves. A shelf the size of 5 icons holds 20 files.
DiscontinuedThe program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.1.4, released in November 2013, can be still bought from Mac App Store.
DesktopShelves Features
DesktopShelves VS Fences
It looks like windows native.