VEEER is a lightweight window manager for your mac OSX - designed for designers & developers and built for a maximum workflow speed.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Optimal Layout Alternatives
Optimal Layout has been discontinued. Similar apps include BetterTouchTool. It's paid, but SmartSystemMenu and WindowGrid are free. Other options are AquaSnap, Moom, Divvy and RBTray. Window Managers like Optimal Layout are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Alternatives list
- 70 VEEER alternatives
Make all windows but the active one transparent.
Features:
- User defined transparency level.
- Can ignore always ontop windows.
- Won't make parent windows transparent while children is active.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
Deskovery is an OS X window manager. Windowshade, align, resize, change transparency of your windows.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
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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.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
+2
WindowSpace is a powerful desktop enhancement utility for large monitors, widescreens and multi-monitor systems. Once installed, it allows you to manipulate windows in many new amazing ways – snap windows to the screen edges and other windows, move and resize them with keyboard...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
Russia
Dims all windows except the active one.
Features:
- Place a transparent image across the screen.
- Highly configurable.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight and free Windows program that allows you to move and resize windows by dragging them with the Alt key, similar to many X11 window managers.
Platforms
- Windows
73 Cinch alternativesCinch 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. Cinching to the left or right edges of the screen will resize the window to fill exactly half the screen, allowing you to easily...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
United States
79 Multi Dock alternativesMultiDock is a simple application that allows you to organize frequently used applications, documents and folders using small panels (Dock’s).
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Ukraine
Sometimes a lot of deskop clutter can hide a window (eg, open file, programs, files-explorer, dialogs)
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
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).
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
- Russia
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Penc is a window manager app for macOS designed for use with the trackpad. It lets you use trackpad gestures along with the Command key to move, resize and snap windows to the screen.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
