Top 15 Fences Alternative and Similar Softwares | Oct 2024

Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable and resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computers desktop, solving the "constant mess" problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception.
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No multilanguage support.
Fences also helps you finally appreciate the wallpaper you have hiding behind all that clutter.
In addition to its organizing features, Fences offers a novel quick-hide feature (in-patenting-process). Double click your desktop, and all your icons will fade out. ...

1. VeBest Icon Groups

VeBest Icon Groups VeBest Icon Groups is a powerful, but easy to use and rich in animation utility. VeBest Icon Groups is a software, intended for just creative and occupied people who extremely value every spare minute and who don't want to search for the icon to launch the desired software or open......

2. Nerdtool

Nerdtool Nerdtool allows you to display many things directly on top of your desktop; weather reports, headline news, and system vitals are just a few uses.Nerdtool is capable of displaying shell outputs with ANSI escaped formatting, but can also manipulate the final output's colors, size, and font. If more intricacy is......

3. Nimi Places

Nimi Places Organizes desktop into customizable containers - showing folders (e.g.: local folders, network locations) contents, displayed as icons/thumbnails on scrollable surface. In-built thumbnail engine is capable of displaying thumbnails for supported Open Documents and PSD images, but also for supported PDF files.Supported media formats can be quickly: previewed, listened, played using......

4. Zones for Mac

Zones for Mac Useful window arrangement ("snap-to-edge") utility that works well with multiple screens.......

5. DesktopShelves

DesktopShelves DesktopShelves helps you fight the clutter on your desktop by organizing files on shelves. A shelf the size of 5 icons holds 20 files."Thank you for a solid product, that I believe has the potential to be a STANDARD for every Mac owner!!" —Dom"Very handy way to tidy up the......

6. Bumptop

Bumptop BumpTop is a fun, intuitive, 3D desktop that keeps you organized and makes you more productive. It combines the look and feel of a real desk with the power of your PC.It used to be hosted at http://bumptop.com/ but since it was bought by Google, it has become......

7. Folderview Screenlet

Folderview Screenlet Folderview Screenlet is a Linux alternative to Fences (which is for Windows).You can create fences on your desktop just like the original Fences software. You can also change the size and move your icons all over the desktop or hide everything on the desktop with a double click.......

8. Shock Desktop 3D

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9. RocketDock

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10. LaunchTab

LaunchTab [Last update was released on 05 Oct 2007, but you can download it from Softpedia.com on http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Other-Desktop-Enhancements/LaunchTab.shtml ]LaunchTab is a freeware skinnable pop-up file launcher for Windows. LaunchTab has a graphical skinning feature that lets you create a "skin" toreplace the graphics for Tabs.LaunchTab uses simple file formats......

11. Launchpad Manager

Launchpad Manager Delete, Rearrange, Group or Ungroup any of your Launchpad Icons, or simply put them into alphabetical order!......

12. Talisman Desktop

Talisman Desktop Talisman Desktop is a configurable Windows shell replacement introduced in 1997 by Lighttek Software. It is available in a number of languages including English, French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Russian and Italian. Talisman Desktop is shareware, available as a free trial download that expires in 30 days. The registration fee for......

13. DeskSpace

DeskSpace DeskSpace is a 3D desktop visualisation tool, allowing you to seamlessly switch between 9 desktops. DeskSpace gives you more space for your windows and icons. You can eliminate desktop clutter by arranging your windows and icons across up to six desktops, all easily reachable by navigating a desktop cube.It gives......

14. Crebs

Crebs Create Background Slideshow (CreBS) is a Python/GTK application used to create and set desktop background slideshows for GNOME, and by extension the Linux distributions that use it, such as Fedora and Ubuntu. The image set defined is stored along with your ordinary wallpapers so it can be reselected in the......

15. Video Paper

Video Paper Set a video as your wallpaper.......