Windows app · Coming soon

Desktop SorterA cleaner desktop. Everything within reach.

Organise your apps, games and files into custom zones and expandable hubs. Keep your desktop tidy without moving your files.

Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit · English and Czech

How it works

Three steps to a tidy desktop

It moves icons the same way you do when you drag them by hand. Preview your layout before applying it. Automatic sorting of new icons is optional and off by default.

Draw your zones

Drag out a zone on the live preview, or let the app suggest a layout. It can also read the arrangement you already have.

Let it sort

Each icon gets a category from its file type or shortcut target. Right-click any icon to set its category yourself.

Apply to desktop

Icons line up inside their zones. Changed your mind? Undo puts them back where they were.

GamesLaunchersAppsDocumentsImagesVideosMusicArchivesFoldersOther
Screenshots

Your whole desktop in one window

Every icon shows up in the preview, so you can arrange everything before you apply it. Click a shot to see it full size.

Zones guide the layout in the editor. Your desktop keeps its wallpaper, neatly arranged icons and optional hubs.
Any zone can become a hub
Style the hub panel with a live preview
Light and dark themes
Expandable hubs

A whole collection. One desktop icon.

Hover to open. Click to launch. Move away to close.

Illustration: collapsed to one desktop icon
Illustration: the same hub with its panel open
Features

More than neat rows

Expandable hubs

Turn a zone into a single icon. Hover over it and a panel opens with everything inside, click to launch, move away and it closes.

Games by launcher

Steam, Epic, GOG and others can each have their own zone, and launchers themselves get a category apart from your games.

New icons find their place

Optional and off by default. A new file on the desktop goes to the first free spot in its zone, and no other icon moves.

Multiple monitors

Draw zones on every screen. Layouts are saved per monitor setup, so plugging a display back in restores its zones.

Make the hubs yours

Choose from 12 icons in 5 styles or use your own image. Set the panel's colours, opacity, corners, outline and glow.

Your call, always

Rename zones, mark icons "Don't move", switch between light and dark, and scale the text up to 175%.

FAQ

Before you install

What it touches, what it sends, and what Windows may say about it.

Does it move my files?

No. Files stay in the same folder and only their icons change position. Icons in a hub are hidden with the hidden and system file attributes, and the files themselves stay in place.

What does it send over the internet?

Only the cleaned-up names of shortcuts and programs it can't place by itself, sent to the public Wikidata and Steam APIs. File contents and paths on your disk are never sent. Without internet everything else still works, and unknown items end up in Apps.

Will Windows warn me about it?

The current release is not digitally signed. Windows may display a security warning or block installation, depending on your security settings.

Does it need administrator rights?

No. It installs for your user account only. Windows asks for permission in one case: when a hub hides icons from the shared public desktop.

Does it run in the background?

Only if you use hubs or turn on sorting new icons or start at sign-in. It then shows a tray icon where you can pause sorting or quit. Otherwise nothing keeps running after you close the window.

What if I stop using it?

Undo returns the icons to where they were before the last apply. Uninstalling removes the hubs and shows their hidden icons again.

Will it work on a work computer?

Possibly not. If an administrator has blocked PowerShell's Add-Type, the app can't read or set icon positions.

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