Top 15 VirtueDesktops Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

Alternative to Apple's Spaces&MissionControl, juggle between multiple desktops on your Mac.

Unfortunately, development for VirtueDesktops has ended, which means the application will be stuck at 0.54 b5 until further notice.

I have to admit that this is pretty disappointing as VirtueDesktops did start to look like a viable competitor to Apple's Spaces. Like the Mac program, VirtueDesktops lets you handle multiple desktops, however it is much more configurable and features more options.

1. Virtuoz

Virtuoz Virtuoz was designed to be a minimal and robust program that allows to have more than one desktop on Windows. It was inspired by Sysinternals Desktops, but uses a different approach, which doesn’t impose the limitations which Desktops is bound to.......

2. Virtual Dimension

Virtual Dimension Virtual Dimension is a free, fast, and feature-full virtual desktop manager for Windows platform. The main goal of this open-source project is indeed to enhance the Microsoft "Window Manager" up to the level of usual Unix Window Manager, by providing virtual desktops, as well as some additional features, like always......

3. Big Screen

Big Screen Big Screen is a software that can extend the user's screen either locally or through the network. Maximum four-fold expansion of user's desktop in the standard version, at least up to 2560x2048 pixel resolution.Big Screen is the abbreviations of Virtual mutil-head Graphics Card and its supporting tool. Big Screen is......

4. Mywe Desktop manager

Mywe Desktop manager Mywe Desktop manager is an all-around desktop enhancer that aims to improve your productivity, by providing you with a wide range of desktop functionality enhancements (Virtual desktop, autohide, live window, transparency, Lightbox, Z-Index).In order to provide you with these features, the application overlays a small access bar onto your screen,......

5. KWin

KWin KWin is a window manager for the X Window System, and is in the process of becoming a Wayland compositor. It is an integral part, and the default window manager of the Plasma Workspaces, but it can also be used on its own or with other desktop environments.......

6. HideWin

HideWin HideWin sits in the system tray and enables you to hide any top-level window with its popup tray menu or an ALT+letter hotkey that it assigns automatically. It appears to be abandonware, but it is only 13KB and still works.......

7. QuickTile

QuickTile 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.......

8. mDesktop

mDesktop mDesktop is a lightweight application that allows the user to utilize multiple virtual desktops. Also, mDesktop integrates with Hotcorners. mDesktop currently supports up to ten virtual desktops.Instructions:Holding Alt-Desktop Index (e.g. Alt-1, Alt-2...) switches between desktopsKeystroke Alt-Ctrl-Desktop Index sends the active window to selected window (e.g. Alt-Ctrl-2 sends active window to......

9. WindowsPager

WindowsPager WindowsPager is a desktop-switcher/pager for Windows to manage virtual workspaces/desktops. It will integrate smoothly into the desktop panel.......

10. VirtuaWin

VirtuaWin VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system . A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops......

11. CubeDesktop NXT

CubeDesktop NXT CubeDesktop NXT provides you up to 16 workspaces, each with its own wallpaper and set of icons, allowing you to quickly and easily switch between them using a live and interactive 3D environment.Several, breathtaking effects that take your desktop experience to the next level. Manage your workspace in a true......

12. Ghost-It

Ghost-It Adjust the transparency of your active and inactive windows, taskbar, and desktop with this small application, which suffers from a minor performance glitch. Ghost-It places an icon on your system tray, with options to independently configure the transparency levels of your active window and inactive windows. It comes with a......

13. STAR My Productivity Tools

STAR My Productivity Tools The desktop productivity toolbox... useful utilities and smart apps designed for frequent writers, programmers and power users:• Smart clipboard - records contents of your local clipboard for later use (great for copywriters)• Snippets - "sticky note" like text editor• Address book - manage private and business contacts• Data -......

14. eXtra Buttons

eXtra Buttons eXtra Buttons lets you add up to 10 additional buttons to the title bar of each window, which allow you to minimize the window to the tray, keep it on-top, send it to the background, adjust the window's transparency and more. There are three options for minimizing windows, you can......

15. Mimic

Mimic It allows to you to duplicate any windows.It can be useful :- for people working with several screens,- to zoom on windows,- in some presentations(And it is an example of how to use the DWM API)......