New in 1.9: stacks, 26 themes & a music widget
GlassDesk sorts every icon on your Windows or Linux desktop into frosted-glass fences you can stack with tabs, and adds music, clock, calendar and system widgets beside them. Pick from 26 themes. It's one small app that rests when nothing changes.
Shortcuts, downloads, screenshots and homework, all piled on top of your wallpaper.
GlassDesk sorts everything by type the moment it starts. New files land in the right place on their own.
A clock, a live system monitor and a sticky note, all under the same frosted glass.
Pick one of 26 themes, an accent color and how see-through the glass is.
Each card plays a short loop of a new feature, so you can see exactly how it works before you install.
Drag one fence onto another (or a widget onto a widget) and they become one stack with tabs. Click a tab to switch, and the new one rises into place.
Four or more files of the same type fold into one neat stack with a count. Click it to open the stack, click again to close it.
Press Ctrl + Alt + F and type. A sum shows the answer, a theme name switches theme, and Ctrl + Enter searches the web.
Search lists every app on your PC, not just your desktop. Drag one onto a fence and a shortcut appears there. The app itself never moves.
Shows what's playing in Spotify, YouTube or any player, with play, pause and skip. When the music stops, it remembers your last song.
From GlassDesk glass to Neon, Paper and Ocean, plus Windows themes like Mica material and Acrylic material. Settings and menus follow your theme too.
See where every file goes before anything moves. Untick a file and it waits in an "Unsorted" fence instead.
Four rings show how much of the day, week, month and year has gone by. Fun for counting down to the weekend.
GlassDesk replaces the scattered icons on your desktop with tidy glass panels that sit behind your windows like part of the wallpaper.
Your desktop is sorted by type the moment GlassDesk starts. New downloads and saved files land in the right fence by themselves, and the old Windows icons are hidden so nothing overlaps.
.lnk .exe
Folders
Documents .pdf .docx .xlsx
Images .png .jpg .heic
Music & Video .mp3 .mp4
Archives .zip .7z
Other files
Move things around the way you already do in File Explorer.
Make a fence for School, Games or This Week, then drag icons into it. Any folder, like Downloads, can be a fence too.
14 glass widgets you can resize and stack. A few favorites:
26 themes, from GlassDesk glass to Mica and Acrylic material, or match your wallpaper. Pick an accent and how see-through the glass is. Try it here; the demo above changes too.
A desktop organizer runs all day, so GlassDesk is designed to use almost nothing while you work, game or watch videos.
No credit card. No "Pro" version. You'll never be asked to pay.
GlassDesk is free forever, with no monthly payments. It installs just for your account and starts with Windows, so your desktop stays organized every day.
The same fences, stacks, all 14 widgets, 26 themes and the same frosted glass, on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, Arch, openSUSE and more. Works with GNOME, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, XFCE and MATE.
Yes, as a beta. GlassDesk for Linux has the same fences, widgets and glass look. Get the .deb for Ubuntu, Mint and Debian, the AppImage for any Linux, or the .tar.gz installer for Fedora, Arch and openSUSE, all on the GitHub Releases page.
Drag a fence onto another fence (or a widget onto another widget). It lights up with "Drop to stack"; let go and choose Stack them. Click the tabs at the top to switch. To split them again, right-click and choose Take out of stack.
Yes. Press Ctrl + Alt + F, find the app (search lists every app on your PC), and drag it onto a fence. GlassDesk adds a shortcut there; the app itself never moves.
Yes. GlassDesk is free forever: no subscription, no monthly payments, no trial, no ads and no paid "Pro" version. It's open source, so anyone can check the code.
No. Sorting and moving icons between fences never touches the files. A file only moves when you drop it on a folder, and deleting always goes to the Recycle Bin after you confirm.
Yes. Open Settings, go to Organizer and turn off "Hide Windows desktop icons". Exiting GlassDesk from the tray also brings them back.
The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen doesn't recognize it. Click More info, then Run anyway. The full source code is on GitHub if you'd rather build it yourself.
GlassDesk pauses all updates while a full-screen game or video is running, and it only redraws its panels when something on the desktop changes.
Open Windows Settings, then Apps, then Installed apps, find GlassDesk and choose Uninstall. It closes the app, removes it from startup and restores your desktop icons. Your settings stay in %AppData%\GlassDesk in case you come back.