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
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    winlayout

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    WinLayout is a program with keyboard hotkeys to move, resize, and snap windows all around the desktop area.

    35 winlayout alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    MinimOther

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    Endlessly minimizes all windows except the active one.

    43 MinimOther alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    MinimOther iconOptimal Layout Icon

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  4. TrayIt! icon
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    TrayIt!

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    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!

    39 TrayIt! alternatives
    TrayIt! screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    TrayIt! Features

    1.  On top
    2.  Transparency
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    Discontinued

    The official website is no longer available. Last version, 4.6.5.5, released on June 2008, can be still downloaded from Softpedia.

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    SizeUp

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    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).

    59 SizeUp alternatives
    SizeUp screenshot 1

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    Platforms

    • Mac

    SizeUp Features

    1.  Split-screen multiplayer
    2.  Fullscreen support
    3.  Tiling
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  7. TopMenu icon
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    TopMenu

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    TopMenu is a functionality clone of PowerMenu, but designed to be compatible with Windows 7 and 64-bit systems.

    40 TopMenu alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    TopMenu Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Transparency
    3.  On top
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    Sawfish

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    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 windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible.

    55 Sawfish alternatives
    Sawfish screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Sawfish Features

    1.  Support for scripting
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    reSizer

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    reSizer is a system utility that enables keyboard shortcuts to focus, move, resize and change other window properties in a fast and intuitive way without even touching the mouse.

    77 reSizer alternatives
    reSizer screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    reSizer Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Support for Multiple Monitors
    3.  Keyboard Shortcuts
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    Windownaut

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    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 desktop.

    57 Windownaut alternatives

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Windownaut Features

    1.  Window organizer
    2.  Snap windows
    Windownaut iconOptimal Layout Icon

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    FreeSnap

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    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 corresponding screen edge. Want that window to touch the right edge of the screen?

    41 FreeSnap alternatives
    FreeSnap screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    FreeSnap iconOptimal Layout Icon

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    TransOther

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    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.
    41 TransOther alternatives
    TransOther screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    TransOther iconOptimal Layout Icon

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    TaskLayout

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

    29 TaskLayout alternatives
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    Platforms

    • Windows

    TaskLayout Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Support for Batch Mode
    3.  Software Management
    4.  Global hotkey
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    WinNumpad Position

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

    76 WinNumpad Position alternatives
    WinNumpad Position screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    WinNumpad Position Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Window organizer
    WinNumpad Position iconOptimal Layout Icon

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