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WindowTop

Optimize your productivity by making windows Always-On-Top. By switching windows super fast using Anchors. By using & watching multiple windows at the same time using Picture-In-Picture (PiP) mode and enabling night mode (dark-mode) for any window.

https://windowtop.info/

Get it from Microsoft

WindowTop - Latest Version (For Windows 10 version 2004 and later, and for Windows 11)

WindowTop v3.3.10 (For Windows 10, Windows 7)

Screenshots

Toolbar & Hotkeys settings

Features

Set window on top (Always on Top)

set-top Toggle Always-on-Top via toolbar. You can also use the hotkey ALT+Z or change it in settings set-top-disable-when-maximized Toggle option to temporarily disable AOT when the window is maximized. This option can be enabled by default

Read more about Always on Top

Anchors (Alt-Tab alternative)

anchors_demo Easily switch between windows using anchors. You can also configure a hotkey to toggle it on/off. anchors-drag-demo You can drag a file to the floating icon. This will bring its window to the foreground so you can drag the file to that window.
anchors_close_shortcut-demo Mouse middle-click (wheel button): this will close the window (*Default) anchors_minimize_shortcut-demo Mouse right-click: this will minimize the window (*Default)
anchor-pip-icon-demo Anchor for PiP window without cropping enabled anchors-crop-icon-demo Anchor for PiP window with cropping enabled

Read more about Anchors

PiP (Picture in Picture) and Crop

pip_and_crop_demo With PiP, you can easily change the window to an interactive thumbnail, control it with the mouse and keyboard, and crop it. pip_interact_readmode_new Interact mode lets you see a bigger preview with your mouse cursor above the window. So you don’t have to make the PiP bigger to see where you click or read.
pip_hide_original_window PiP also allows hiding the original window (*Default) pip_show_original_window Or you can configure it so as not to hide the original window. You can configure the default behavior and also toggle it via the toolbar.
pip_smart_drag You can drag the PiP view when the mouse is not above some text. The function treats it as a text-selection operation when it is above text. PiP-Auto-Move-demo-1 PiP also includes an auto-move function that automatically moves the PiP view away from any text or image on the screen.

Read more about PiP (Picture-in-Picture) and Crop

Crop

crop-directly-demo The PiP feature also comes with a crop function that allows you to activate the crop directly from the native window. This includes everything else that comes with PiP, such as mouse interaction, etc. edit-crop-from-native You can modify the crop selection directly from the native window (if “Show original window” is enabled) and instantly see the result on the PiP view.
crop_hide PiP also allows hiding the original window (*Default) crop_no_hide Crop without hiding the original window

Read more about PiP (Picture-in-Picture) and Crop

Opacity

Opacity-feature-demo

Easily adjust window transparency and even enable click-throws, and there is an additional option to temporarily turn off transparency when the mouse is above the window. These options can be enabled via hotkeys.

Opacity-Click-Through-Demo

Use case example of transparency with click-through enabled.

Read more about Opacity

Dark Mode

dark-mode-demo-pro dark_mode_settings

Read more about Dark Mode

Glass Mode

glass-mode image

Read more about Glass Mode

More Toolbars

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Hotkeys settings

Hotkeys

Disable on Game Mode & Exclude/Include programs

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Supported Operating Systems

From v4.x.x, Windows 7 and before are no longer supported. Before v4.x.x, Windows 7 is also supported.

Only Windows 10 and Windows 11 are supported for v4.x.x and later. It may also work on Windows 8, but it was never tested.

Only 64-bit versions of Windows are supported (WindowTop is 64-bit only)

Purchasing

You can purchase WindowTop from here:
https://windowtop.info/purchase/
You can start a 30 day trial before you decide if you want to purchase it.

Developer

Gil Eliyahu (gileli121@gmail.com)