Optimal Layout Alternatives

Optimal Layout is described as 'Powerful Mac OS X application for managing your applications windows. Optimal Layout gives you keyboard shortcuts to instantly organize your windows and simple ways to layout windows with your mouse' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Optimal Layout for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, File Explorer, PortableApps.com and Linux apps. The best Optimal Layout alternative is BetterTouchTool. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try AquaSnap or SmartSystemMenu. Other great apps like Optimal Layout are Divvy, altdrag, WindowGrid and Moom.

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Optimal Layout is a powerful Mac OS X application for managing your applications windows. Optimal Layout gives you keyboard shortcuts to instantly organize your windows and simple ways to layout windows with your mouse.

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Optimal Layout alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022
  1. yabai icon
     7 likes

    yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.

    101 yabai alternatives
    yabai screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    yabai Features

    1.  Automatic window tiling
    2.  Tiling Layouts
    3.  Tiling Window Manager
    4.  Tiling
    yabai iconOptimal Layout Icon

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  2. Shiftit icon
     67 likes

    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. It is a complete rewrite of the original ShiftIt by Aravindkumar Rajendiran which is not...

    71 Shiftit alternatives
    Shiftit screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  No registration required

    Features

    1.  Window move resize
    2.  Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
    3.  Window organizer
    Discontinued

    This project is looking for a new maintainer. Until that transition is completed, there will likely not be further development on this project.from https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt/blob/master/README.md

    Shiftit iconOptimal Layout Icon

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  3. TaskSpace icon
     13 likes

    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 taskbar is required).

    21 TaskSpace alternatives
    TaskSpace screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer

    TaskSpace Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Windows Explorer Extension
    3.  Tabbed browsing
    TaskSpace iconOptimal Layout Icon

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  4.  9 likes

    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 Plasma Workspaces, but it can also be used on its own or with other desktop environments.

    56 KWin alternatives
    KWin's desktop cube.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    KWin Features

    1.  Extensible window manager
    Optimal Layout Icon

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    • KWin is the most popular Linux alternative to Optimal Layout.

    • KWin is Free and Open SourceOptimal Layout is Paid and Proprietary
  5. GridMove icon
     28 likes

    GridMove - A window management tool that can quickly arrange your windows into desktop grids.

    53 GridMove alternatives
    GridMove screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    GridMove Features

    1.  Window organizer
    GridMove iconOptimal Layout Icon

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  6. AutoSizer icon
     26 likes

    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. It works with most software programs, and supports maximizing to specific monitors on...

    27 AutoSizer alternatives
    Main Window

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    Last updated: "AutoSizer 1.71 (December 3rd, 2008)". See release date: http://www.softpedia.com/hubs/Window-Maximizer/

    AutoSizer iconOptimal Layout Icon

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  7. DM2 icon
     26 likes

    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.

    42 DM2 alternatives
    Enhanced system menu

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com

    DM2 Features

    1.  Portable
    Discontinued

    Last version is from 2007

    DM2 iconOptimal Layout Icon

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  8. HyperDock icon
     27 likes

    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."

    Window Previews Ever wondered how to activate a single wind.

    65 HyperDock alternatives
    Window preview

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac

    HyperDock Features

    1.  Dock
    Discontinued

    The last version (1.7) is from January 2017, but it's still available to download.

    HyperDock iconOptimal Layout Icon

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  9. eXtra Buttons icon
     18 likes

    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.

    13 eXtra Buttons alternatives
    Options - Buttons Set

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer

    eXtra Buttons Features

    1.  Windows Explorer Extension
    2.  Pin the specified window on top of all
    3.  On top
    Discontinued

    Social networks not updated in years.

    eXtra Buttons iconOptimal Layout Icon

    eXtra Buttons VS Optimal Layout

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  10. Plumb icon
     5 likes

    Plumb is designed to reduce the time spent manually moving windows on your desktop. With higher resolution and larger monitors becoming the norm it’s common to have several applications open at any given time — none of which really need 100% of the screen.

    48 Plumb alternatives
    Plumb screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Plumb Features

    1.  Snap windows
    Plumb iconOptimal Layout Icon

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  11. MaxTo icon
     17 likes

    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. Your windows are neatly organized into the grid you have defined when they are maximized.

    18 MaxTo alternatives
    MaxTo screenshot 1

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows

    MaxTo Features

    1.  Window organizer
    2.  Snap windows
    3.  Window docking
    MaxTo iconOptimal Layout Icon

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  12. Mjolnir icon
     6 likes

    Lightweight automation and productivity power-tool for OS X.

    50 Mjolnir alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Mjolnir iconOptimal Layout Icon

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