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PinWin

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PinWin is a minimal Windows system tray application that allows you to pin any windows to the top of the screen with one click.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Windows
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
9likes
3comments
0news articles

Features

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  1.  Sits in the System Tray
  2.  On top

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  • julthep reviewed PinWin  
    about 2 months ago

    ✅ Works on ANY window, even protected ones (Uses direct Win32 API with elevation) ✅ Can pin Administrator Command Prompt, GDI/DirectDraw windows, Electron apps, and even system dialogs (Beats DeskPins, PowerToys, and most tray utilities) ✅ Open source & CLI-based (No GUI overhead, only single system tray menu, clean behavior) ✅ Doesn’t interfere with layout or style (Only toggles topmost flag without UI artifacts)

  • julthep liked PinWin
    about 2 months ago
  • Maoholguin added PinWin as alternative to Mimic
    9 months ago
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PinWin information

  • Developed by

    DE flagBluegrams
  • Licensing

    Open Source (BSD-3-Clause) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3
  • Alternatives

    8 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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OS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  184 Stars
  •  23 Forks
  •  2 Open Issues
  •   Updated Aug 22, 2020 
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about PinWin, and it has gotten 9 likes

PinWin was added to AlternativeTo by quanik on Sep 29, 2019 and this page was last updated Sep 30, 2019.

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Top Positive Comment
Julthep Nandakwang
May 7, 2025
0

✅ Works on ANY window, even protected ones (Uses direct Win32 API with elevation) ✅ Can pin Administrator Command Prompt, GDI/DirectDraw windows, Electron apps, and even system dialogs (Beats DeskPins, PowerToys, and most tray utilities) ✅ Open source & CLI-based (No GUI overhead, only single system tray menu, clean behavior) ✅ Doesn’t interfere with layout or style (Only toggles topmost flag without UI artifacts)

TBayAreaPat
Feb 9, 2023
0

I've seen MenuTools by Rafael Cossovan "Stay on Top" beat out both DeskPins and PinWin. When trying to pin a resized browser over a different browser, DeskPins wouldn't do it. PinWin let me choose the browser from its list of windows and then it could be pinned on top. MenuTools seems to always work.

Wanrim
Nov 27, 2021
0

Better than DeskPins, lightweight, Open Source, any restrictions and easy to use.

What is PinWin?

Pin any window to be always on top of the screen. PinWin is a minimal Windows system tray application that allows you to pin any windows to the top of the screen with one click.

Features:

  • Pin windows from list in system tray
  • Directly select window from screen
  • Global shortcut for selecting windows
  • Runs quietly in background and does not need installation

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