TrayIt! Alternatives

TrayIt! is described as '- minimize to the system icon tray any program (Outlook Express, Notepad, Word, Internet Explorer, Sunbird, Thunderbird, Opera, OpenOffice etc.) and get more room in the Taskbar!' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to TrayIt! for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, PortableApps.com, File Explorer and Thunderbird apps. The best TrayIt! alternative is SmartSystemMenu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TrayIt! are RBTray, KDocker, RBTray Fork and Actual Window Manager.

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  1. SmartSystemMenu icon
     24 likes

    SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. It appends next custom items to menu:

    44 SmartSystemMenu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • SmartSystemMenu is the most popular Windows alternative to TrayIt!.

    • SmartSystemMenu is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to TrayIt!.

    • SmartSystemMenu is Free and Open SourceTrayIt! is Free and Proprietary
  2. RBTray icon
     33 likes

    Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.

    44 RBTray alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    Comments about RBTray as an Alternative to TrayIt!
    Korwin
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    Discontinued vs discontinued. No way.

    TrayIt! Icon
    RBTray icon
    • Most users think RBTray is a great TrayIt! alternative.

    • RBTray is Free and Open SourceTrayIt! is Free and Proprietary
  3. KDocker icon
     5 likes

    KDocker will help you dock any application into the system tray. This means you can dock Openoffice, xmms, Firefox, Thunderbird, anything!

    Just point and click. Works for all NET WM compliant window managers - that includes KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Fluxbox and many more.

    16 KDocker alternatives

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • KDocker is the most popular Linux alternative to TrayIt!.

    • KDocker is Free and Open SourceTrayIt! is Free and Proprietary
  4. RBTray Fork icon
     10 likes

    RBTray by Benbuck, fork of RBTray , is a small Windows program that runs in the background and allows almost any window to be minimized to the system tray by:

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. 4t Tray Minimizer is a lightweight but powerful window manager, which helps you to free up space on the desktop and the taskbar via the following actions:

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. SmartContextMenu adds a context menu to all windows in the system. This program is enhanced version of SmartSystemMenu. I hope it will be more convenient, because it supports all types of windows, including windows without a system menu.

    20 SmartContextMenu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. DM2 icon
     26 likes

    DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating icons® (unique feature!) freeing both task bar and tray bar space.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  8. eXtra Buttons icon
     18 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
  9. Ghoster icon
     7 likes

    Dims all windows except the active one.

    Features:

    • Place a transparent image across the screen.
    • Highly configurable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. PS Tray Factory allows you to take a full control over icons in the system tray area of the taskbar. With PS Tray Factory you can: hide icons from system tray into menu, change the order of icons in the system tray (sort tray), restore tray icons after Explorer.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Always on Top icon
     6 likes

    Always-on-top is the free utility that allows any program window to stay on top of all other windows even when it does not have the focus.

    9 Always on Top alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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