Desker
Desker — organize your Windows desktop into live panels & icon zones
Organize your Windows desktop — your way.
Desker turns folders into live desktop panels, gathers your icons into clean zones, and puts you in control of your desktop. Native Rust on raw Win32 — no Electron, no bloat, no telemetry. Lightweight, fast, yours.
Launching soon — the waitlist gets the free download first · no account · no subscription
Styled illustration of a Desker layout — real screenshots ship with the launch build.
Organize it all.
Your desktop, your rules.
Live folder panels, multiple widget kinds, desktop zones, and deep personalization — one lightweight app that works the way you work.
The one thing free tools can't touch.
Draw a zone anywhere on the desktop and Desker snaps the icons inside it into a clean, labeled grid. Your desktop stops being a junk drawer — without moving a single file.
- Labeled grids — name a zone and it stays named
- Snap on drop — drag an icon in, it lands in the grid
- Your files stay put — zones organize the view, not the disk
Styled illustration — real screenshots ship with the launch build.
Your folders, living on the desktop.
Drop a folder onto the desktop and it becomes a translucent, always-live panel. Contents update in real time — open, drag and drop like a window that never gets in the way.
- Always live — mirrors the real folder, not a copy
- Unlimited panels — no cap, even on Lite
- Dock to edge — tuck a panel away until you need it
Styled illustration — real screenshots ship with the launch build.
A dozen widgets, none of them bloat.
Notes, to-do, timers, clocks, calendars, system monitors, quick-launch, bookmarks, recent files, clipboard history. Add what you use, ignore what you don't — the whole app is still about 4 MB.
- Every widget in Lite — the free tier isn't a crippled demo
- Native rendering — no embedded browser, no web view
- ~0% idle CPU — widgets sit still when nothing changes
Styled illustration — real screenshots ship with the launch build.
Photos and video, right where you left them.
Images, GIFs and video play natively inside a panel. Slideshow mode cycles a folder on its own, so a shoot folder or a wallpaper set lives on the desktop without opening a viewer.
- Plays in place — no separate viewer app
- Slideshow mode — point it at a folder and walk away
Styled illustration — real screenshots ship with the launch build.
Two monitors, three, or one small laptop.
Layout profiles remember where your panels belong per monitor arrangement, so unplugging a dock doesn't scatter your desktop. Dock-to-edge keeps panels out of the way until you want them.
- Per-arrangement profiles — plug and unplug without re-tidying
- Dock to edge — slide a panel off-screen until hovered
- Automation rules — file dropped files into the right folder
Styled illustration — real screenshots ship with the launch build.
Make it look like yours.
Frosted glass or lightweight rendering, panel shapes, blur, transparency, fonts, borders, themes and accent colours. Desker should disappear into your desktop, not fight it.
- Frosted or flat — pick the render mode your GPU likes
- Dark and light — follows Windows, or override it
- Accent colours — match your wallpaper, not our branding
Styled illustration — real screenshots ship with the launch build.
One good product, made for you.
I'm not chasing engagement or harvesting your data. I build one thing: a calm, fast way to organize a Windows desktop, and I stay out of your way once it's running. No subscriptions, no accounts, no nonsense. That's the whole deal.
Desker is built by one person — no growth team, no investors. I wrote it in Rust, straight on the Win32 API, because every desktop organizer I tried was abandoned, a subscription, or an Electron app burning hundreds of megabytes to draw a rectangle. It's in active development as I write this, with a top bar and unified desktop control coming. Join the waitlist to get the free download first.
— Accidental Intelligence
Free to start. Pay once, own it forever.
Lite is genuinely useful and free forever. Premium is a single purchase — you own it, no subscription, ever. Rolling it out across a team? Enterprise is quoted to fit.
Everything you need to organize your desktop, at no cost.
- Live folder panels & desktop zones
- The full widget ecosystem
- Frosted-glass or lightweight rendering
- Free forever — no trial, no nag screens
Everything in Lite, plus you're directly funding a solo, full-time developer. $9.99 if you're on the waitlist before launch.
- Everything in Lite
- Pay once — no subscription, ever
- Supports continued, independent development
Rolling Desker out across a team or a managed fleet? Tell us the shape of it and we'll quote it.
- Volume licensing for the whole team
- Invoice or PO billing, not just card
- Help with managed, silent deployment
- A direct line to the developer
No subscriptions. Ever.
Be the first to organize
Desker is in active development. Join the waitlist and you'll get the free download the moment it ships — plus Premium at $9.99 instead of $17.99, locked in for being here early. No spam, no bullshit — unsubscribe whenever you like.