Alternatives to Dual Monitor Tools
Suite of Windows utilities for working with several monitors. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Dual Monitor Tools
Suite of Windows utilities for working with several monitors.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Dual Monitor Tools.
DisplayFusion
Multi-monitor management for Windows: a taskbar on every screen, wallpaper spanning, title bar buttons and hotkeys for moving windows.
DisplayFusion adds a taskbar on every monitor and title bar buttons for moving windows, but it is closed source and the main features require the paid Pro version.
Actual Window Manager
A paid Windows utility bundling over 50 window management tools, including multi-monitor and virtual desktop features.
Actual Window Manager bundles over 50 window tools with multi-monitor and virtual desktop support, but it is a paid, closed source licence instead of free GPL-3.0 software.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Dual Monitor Tools as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
MultiMonitorTool
Portable NirSoft utility for enabling, disabling and configuring multiple monitors.
Dual Monitor Tools is a GPL-3.0 open-source suite with hotkeys for moving windows between monitors, cursor locking and per-monitor wallpaper, but development has slowed.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
PersistentWindows
Restore Windows window positions after monitor changes.
DisplayProfileManager
Saves and switches Windows display profiles covering resolution, HDR and layout.
Twinkle Tray
Adds brightness sliders for external monitors to the Windows system tray, using DDC/CI, which Windows does not support natively.
Monitorian
Control the brightness of multiple monitors from Windows.
Lively Wallpaper
Turns videos, web pages, shaders, emulators and games into an animated Windows desktop wallpaper that pauses when you play something full screen.
