Windy Alternatives

Windy is described as '- enhanced window manager. windy does window management a breeze. It started as a windows alternative to divvy, but now it has evolved with into its own. Thanks to the generous feedback from you folks. whats different from divvy? - first - its free. - has divvy like' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Windy for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, PortableApps.com and File Explorer apps. The best Windy alternative is Rectangle, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windy are BetterTouchTool, AquaSnap, WindowGrid and Divvy.

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  1. KDE Mover-Sizer icon
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    KDE Mover-Sizer is a lightweight program enabling KDE-style alt-click moving and resizing for Windows XP, 7, 2000, 2003, Windows Server, and Vista.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. DeskScope icon
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    DeskScope is an easy-to-use window manager with the Desk View™, an interactive view of the desktop. DeskScope creates mini-windows on the Desk View to represent desktop applications and Windows 11 apps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. ActiveDock 2 icon
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    ActiveDock 2 is a customizable alternative to the standard macOS Dock, offering advanced features for app launching, window management, appearance customization, and more. It fully replaces the classic Apple Dock and Launchpad while preserving their familiar look and behavior...

    92 ActiveDock 2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. VEEER icon
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    VEEER is a lightweight window manager for your mac OSX - designed for designers & developers and built for a maximum workflow speed.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Plumb icon
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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.

    48 Plumb alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Deskovery icon
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    Deskovery is an OS X window manager. Windowshade, align, resize, change transparency of your windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. WindowSpace icon
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    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
     
  8. Taekwindow icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. QuickTile icon
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    A lightweight utility for allowing you to quickly snap windows to a tiling grid under your existing Linux window manager. Can be triggered via keyboard shortcuts, the command line, or D-Bus calls.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
     
    • QuickTile is the most popular Linux alternative to Windy.

    • QuickTile is Free and Open SourceWindy is Free and Proprietary
  10. Cinch icon
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    Cinch 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
     
  11. Multi Dock icon
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    MultiDock is a simple application that allows you to organize frequently used applications, documents and folders using small panels (Dock’s).

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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