Minime Alternatives

Minime is described as 'tool that allows you to minimize applications to the system tray using a simple hotkey. What makes this tool somewhat unique is that it keeps your system tray clean by minimizing all applications into a single tray icon' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Minime for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, PortableApps.com, Windows Explorer and Thunderbird apps. The best Minime alternative is SmartSystemMenu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Minime are Actual Window Manager, RBTray Fork, RBTray and 4t Tray Minimizer.

Minime alternatives are mainly Window Managers but may also be Shell Extensions. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Minime.

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Minime

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SmartSystemMenu
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Free • Open Source
Window Manager
Windows
47 SmartSystemMenu alternatives
SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. It appends next custom items to menu:
- - SmartSystemMenu is the most popular Windows alternative to Minime.
- - SmartSystemMenu is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Minime.
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SmartSystemMenu Features
Sits in the System Tray
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Window Resizing
Transparency
Prioritize tasks
Pin the specified window on top of all
Change Monitor
Actual Window Manager
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Paid • Proprietary
Window Manager
Shell Extension
Windows
37 Actual Window Manager alternatives
Total Windows® Facelift!.
- - Actual Window Manager is the most popular commercial alternative to Minime.
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Actual Window Manager Features
1. Support for Multiple MonitorsActual Window Manager supports the use of multiple displays.
Extensible window manager
Snap windows
Window docking
RBTray Fork
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Free • Open Source
Window Manager
Windows
11 RBTray Fork alternatives
A minor fork of RBTray.
RBTray Fork has no features, suggest some!
RBTray
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Free • Open Source
Window Manager
Windows
PortableApps.com
51 RBTray alternatives
Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.
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RBTray Features
1. PortableRBTray can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Discontinued
Last update is from 2015 but the project has been forked: https://github.com/benbuck/rbtray
4t Tray Minimizer
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Freemium • Proprietary
Windows
24 4t Tray Minimizer alternatives
4t Tray Minimizer is a lightweight but powerful window manager, which helps you to free up space on the desktop and the taskbar via the following actions:
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4t Tray Minimizer Features
Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
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DM2
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Free • Open Source
Window Manager
Windows
PortableApps.com
41 DM2 alternatives
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.
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DM2 Features
1. PortableDM2 can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Discontinued
Last version is from 2007
eXtra Buttons
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Free • Proprietary
Shell Extension
Windows
Windows Explorer
12 eXtra Buttons alternatives
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.
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eXtra Buttons Features
1. Windows Explorer ExtensioneXtra Buttons can extend Windows Explorer in various ways, for example add context menu options, etc..
Pin the specified window on top of all
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Discontinued
Social networks not updated in years.
Chameleon Window Manager
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Freemium • Proprietary
Windows
Windows Explorer
89 Chameleon Window Manager alternatives
Chameleon Window Manager will allow you to control the windows of your programs using customizable buttons added to the title bars of the windows (Always on Top, Minimize to Tray, Minimize to Caption, Specify Transparency, Position window at left/right of screen).
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Chameleon Window Manager Features
1. Windows Explorer ExtensionChameleon Window Manager can extend Windows Explorer in various ways, for example add context menu options, etc..
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TrayIt!
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
40 TrayIt! alternatives
TrayIt! - minimize to the system icon tray any program (Outlook Express, Notepad, Word, Internet Explorer, Sunbird, Thunderbird, Opera, OpenOffice etc.) and get more room in the Taskbar!
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TrayIt! Features
On top
Transparency
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 4.6.5.5, released on June 2008, can be still downloaded from Softpedia.
FireTray
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
Waterfox
Pale Moon
Thunderbird
SeaMonkey
Firefox
15 FireTray alternatives
FireTray is system tray extension for Linux and Windows that targets Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.
- - FireTray is the most popular Linux alternative to Minime.
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FireTray Features
Legacy Firefox Addon
Customizable
Discontinued
The developer announced in December 2015 that the extension was no longer developed: https://foudil.fr/blog/209/the-web-is-not-the-platform/ The extension still works on XUL-based Firefox forks like Waterfox and Pale Moon
PowerMenu
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Free • Proprietary
Shell Extension
Windows
Windows Explorer
45 PowerMenu alternatives
PowerMenu is a small application that some extra menu items to the windows control menu in addition to the standard "Close", "Maximize", etc options. The extra menus are: Priority, Always On Top, Transparency and Minimize To Tray.
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PowerMenu Features
Transparency
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Discontinued
The app is no longer updated, but it can be still downloaded from the official website.
TopMenu
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Free • Open Source
Windows
41 TopMenu alternatives
TopMenu is a functionality clone of PowerMenu, but designed to be compatible with Windows 7 and 64-bit systems.
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TopMenu Features
1. PortableTopMenu can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Transparency
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