Trayconizer Alternatives
Trayconizer is described as 'Allows you to minimize virtually any application to the system tray rather than having it take up valuable space in your taskbar. The screen shot to the left shows Trayconizer minimizing Notepad to the system tray' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Trayconizer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, PortableApps.com, Thunderbird and X11 apps. The best Trayconizer alternative is SmartSystemMenu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Trayconizer are RBTray, KDocker, TrayIt! and FireTray.
- 46 SmartSystemMenu alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Window Manager
- Windows
SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. It appends next custom items to menu:
- - SmartSystemMenu is the most popular Windows alternative to Trayconizer.
- - SmartSystemMenu is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Trayconizer.
SmartSystemMenu Features
- 50 RBTray alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Window Manager
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.
RBTray Features
DiscontinuedLast update is from 2015 but the project has been forked: https://github.com/benbuck/rbtray
KDocker will help you dock any application into the system tray. This means you can dock Openoffice, xmms, Firefox, Thunderbird, anything!
Just point and click. Works for all NET WM compliant window managers - that includes KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Fluxbox and many more.
- - KDocker is the most popular Linux alternative to Trayconizer.
KDocker Features
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!
TrayIt! Features
DiscontinuedThe official website is no longer available. Last version, 4.6.5.5, released on June 2008, can be still downloaded from Softpedia.
FireTray is system tray extension for Linux and Windows that targets Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.
FireTray Features
DiscontinuedThe developer announced in December 2015 that the extension was no longer developed: https://foudil.fr/blog/209/the-web-is-not-the-platform/ The extension still works on XUL-based Firefox forks like
Waterfox and
Pale Moon
- 44 PowerMenu alternatives
- Free • Proprietary
- Shell Extension
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
PowerMenu is a small application that some extra menu items to the windows control menu in addition to the standard "Close", "Maximize", etc options. The extra menus are: Priority, Always On Top, Transparency and Minimize To Tray.
PowerMenu Features
DiscontinuedThe app is no longer updated, but it can be still downloaded from the official website.
TopMenu is a functionality clone of PowerMenu, but designed to be compatible with Windows 7 and 64-bit systems.
TopMenu Features
- 21 Clicky Gone alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Window Manager
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
Clicky Gone allows you to hide your selected windows from view, this includes the taskbar button associated with the application. This utility particularly helps with protecting your privacy by hiding things like your browser with banking details up and someone walks in on you.
Clicky Gone Features
Hide your running applications from Dock.
- - GhostTile is the most popular Mac alternative to Trayconizer.
- - GhostTile is the most popular commercial alternative to Trayconizer.
- Free • Open Source
15 stalonetray alternatives- Linux
- openSUSE
- Arch Linux
- Openbox
- Fedora
- Ubuntu
- Compiz
- Debian
- X11
- Enlightenment
- Xmonad
Stalonetray is a stand-alone system tray (notification area) for X Window System/X11. Working with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager, it has minimal build and run-time dependencies (X11 lib only). Complete XEMBED support under development.
stalonetray Features
Minime is a tool that allows you to minimize applications to the system tray using a simple hotkey. What makes this tool somewhat unique is that it keeps your system tray clean by minimizing all applications into a single tray icon.
DiscontinuedLast Update: 2013-04-10. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/minime-tool/
Min2Tray - a utility for MS WindowsTM NT and higher to minimize and hide a window to system tray area of taskbar as icon.