Portals: Desktop Organization
Create containers (aka Portals) on your desktop which show the contents of a specified folder. Divide your desktop into folders then use Portals to display the contents of the folders in an organized fashion - you can even hide the folders away somewhere else.
Features
Properties
- Configurable
- Lightweight
- Customizable
- Support for Themes
Features
- Group Icons
- Drag and Drop
- File Organizer
- Ad-free
- Organization
- Launcher
- Works Offline
- Folder Mirroring
- Dark Mode
- Dock
- Window organizer
- Portable
- No registration required
- Built-in viewer
Portals: Desktop Organization News & Activities
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- kp-jayupperpie reviewed Portals: Desktop Organization
I love Portals: Desktop Organization because it’s easy to use and it can be able to organize your too many icons desktop with no hassle. But you needed to save your layout before you leave it. If not, you needed to set up your desktop ever again. (I have to move all my desktop icon to a newly created folder called “Desktop container” and then organize all of them to specific folder like Programs or games or categorized them into each program categories.)
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- pino76 reviewed Portals: Desktop Organization
Extremely laggy and buggy, the main app doesn't support dark mode. All items in settings behind a paywall.
- travitz reviewed Portals: Desktop Organization
This app is amazing, I like having the customization. Super easy to setup and get started.
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What is Portals: Desktop Organization?
Create containers (aka Portals) on your desktop which show the contents of a specified folder. Divide your desktop into folders then use Portals to display the contents of the folders in an organized fashion - you can even hide the folders away somewhere else. You can even show Portals from folders from multiple different locations!
Icons are pulled from Windows itself to avoid messy, non-standard icons and the Portals can be colored in a way that suits your desktop style! You can even set the transparency, size, location of them.
Automatic scrolling will apply when there are more icons than are displayable in the Portal. Then when you're done, lock them in place so you don't accidentally move them.
Portals: Desktop Organization information
Developed by
Ross Patterson Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.7Alternatives
20 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Free, lightweight and looks like it's native to windows. A good alternative to Stardock Fences.
Extremely laggy and buggy, the main app doesn't support dark mode. All items in settings behind a paywall.
Hey Pino76, Its not behind a paywall as such - the licenses are completely free if you so wish - just enter 0 on the payment page.
I love Portals: Desktop Organization because it’s easy to use and it can be able to organize your too many icons desktop with no hassle. But you needed to save your layout before you leave it. If not, you needed to set up your desktop ever again. (I have to move all my desktop icon to a newly created folder called “Desktop container” and then organize all of them to specific folder like Programs or games or categorized them into each program categories.)
This app is amazing, I like having the customization. Super easy to setup and get started.
A very good alternative to Stardock Fences. The GUI is not quite as slick as Fences, but actually offers more options, like precise placement and size of the portals.
This app is great and very customizable.
I use multiple display setups and virtual desktops in win11. Desktops have different backgrounds so that i can identify them easily. All other desktop organizers that i have tested seem to change the background after a while so that the same picture is in all desktops. Portals doesn´t do that. It is rather easy to configure after you figure out how it works. Good knowledge base helps with settings. So happy that i found this app!