Top 15 Nerdtool Alternative and Similar Softwares | Mar 2024

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 desired, Nerdtool is also capable of displaying images, HTML documents, and other higher forms of media.

1. XWidget

XWidget XWidget is a free desktop customization platform. It’s light, handy with powerful visual widget editor and very subtle animations. The Android page is found here: http://android.xwidget.com/......

2. gDesklets

gDesklets gDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.You can populate your desktop with status meters, icon bars, weather sensors, news tickers... whatever you can imagine... Virtually anything is possible and may even be available some......

3. Beautiful Widgets

Beautiful Widgets Beautiful set of widgets containing a clock widget, a clock and weather widget, weather widgets, date widgets and toggle widgets, with skins/themes support.Details:- Super Clock widget with weather, battery or just the clock 4x3 4x2 4x1 2x1- Weather only widget 4x1 1x1- Battery widget 1x1- Date widget 2x1 1x1- Text......

4. Screenlets

Screenlets Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as "the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk". Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, ... the possibilities are endless.The goal of the Screenlets base-classes is to simplify the creation of fully themeable mini-apps that each solve basic desktop-work-related......

5. FCorp Context Menu Manager

FCorp Context Menu Manager Context Menu Manager is a collection of utilities bent on providing the necessary means to customize the file association on the system as well as to enrich the context menu for files and folders with new entries.All elements in the interface are neatly organized, which makes finding the right sections......

6. VBGadgets

VBGadgets Some nice gadgets for your Windows desktop......

7. PaperPlane Smart Launch

PaperPlane Smart Launch PaperPlane Smart Launch is a free launcher program aka. shortcut manager which enables you to launch your desktop like an iPad. If you are familiar with Mac OS Launchpad, you could say that it's a better Launchpad just for your Windows. It enables you to quickly access your most used......

8. Preme for Windows

Preme for Windows Preme is a free software for Windows which lets you add cool desktop features and enhances the desktop functionality.Key features:# Touch the corners of your desktop to push shortcut key or open any file or hide an active window or see all your open Windows either in Flip 3D or......

9. Fences

Fences 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.......

10. 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......

11. 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.......

12. Floating Clock

Floating Clock Floating-Clock - Floating (Charms) Clock for Windows 10Feature: - MultiScreen Support- HotCorner- Alt+C Shortcut- Multilingual- Realtime Update......

13. 360desktop

360desktop 360desktop is free software that extends Windows as a 360 degree workspace, plus an online environment for creating interative 360 degree wallpaper, with a gallery and a widget platform, for sharing your favorite 360's with everybody.Features: extends the Windows desktop as a 360 degree workspace, online platform for creating interactive......

14. Types

Types “Types” is a free and lightweight utility for Windows that allows you to edit program associations, icons, context menus and other properties of various file types displayed in Explorer.The software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. source code avaliable by link: http://ystr.github.io/apps/types/Types.7z......

15. ShellExView

ShellExView Shell Extensions are in-process COM objects which extends the abilities of Windows operating system. Most shell extensions are automatically installed by the operating system, but there are also many other applications that install additional shell extension components. For example: If you install WinZip on your computer, youll see a special......