WindowMizer is an application that will "roll-up" a window like a windowshade.
When you double-click the title bar of a window, WindowMizer minimizes the window to the Dock and leaves a placeholder title bar on the screen. When you want to get back to what you were doing, simply double-click the placeholder title bar and the window will restore from the Dock. No need to navigate to the Dock to find the window you just minimized... it's exactly where you left it!
WindowMizer also helps you maintain an organized desktop by allowing you to see all opened
When you double-click the title bar of a window, WindowMizer minimizes the window to the Dock and leaves a placeholder title bar on the screen. When you want to get back to what you were doing, simply double-click the placeholder title bar and the window will restore from the Dock. No need to navigate to the Dock to find the window you just minimized... it's exactly where you left it!
WindowMizer also helps you maintain an organized desktop by allowing you to see all opened
What's New
Version 3.1:
- Added support for OS 10.9
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.6 or later
- Internet connection during 14-day demo and to activate.
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WindowMizer is an application that will "roll-up" a window like a windowshade.
When you double-click the title bar of a window, WindowMizer minimizes the window to the Dock and leaves a placeholder title bar on the screen. When you want to get back to what you were doing, simply double-click the placeholder title bar and the window will restore from the Dock. No need to navigate to the Dock to find the window you just minimized... it's exactly where you left it!
WindowMizer also helps you maintain an organized desktop by allowing you to see all opened windows at once and provides easy restoration of minimized windows by double-clicking the titlebar placeholder. Perfect for single-monitor systems where space is a commodity. Works on multiple-monitor systems and increases productivity.
When you double-click the title bar of a window, WindowMizer minimizes the window to the Dock and leaves a placeholder title bar on the screen. When you want to get back to what you were doing, simply double-click the placeholder title bar and the window will restore from the Dock. No need to navigate to the Dock to find the window you just minimized... it's exactly where you left it!
WindowMizer also helps you maintain an organized desktop by allowing you to see all opened windows at once and provides easy restoration of minimized windows by double-clicking the titlebar placeholder. Perfect for single-monitor systems where space is a commodity. Works on multiple-monitor systems and increases productivity.
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walo reviewed on 03 Mar 2014
DanielA3364 reviewed on 18 Dec 2013
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It minimizes the window to the dock with double clicking the toolbar area. Isn't it just to click on the 'Amber' button to minimize the window (by Apple default)?
I'd prefer to do a single click on the 'Amber' button than paying money ($14.99) to do double clicking to minimize the window.
That's my 2 cents.
You can try the demo for 14 days to help understand its purpose. If you need assistance setting it up, I would be glad to help.
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Jxj24 reviewed on 22 Oct 2013
But please, please, please add "Minimize in Place" to supplement Windowshading.
I rely on both forms of window modification to work comfortably, depending on what apps I am using and what I'm trying to do.
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Qb reviewed on 09 Oct 2013
That said there is still a split second lag is shading or unshading that I find myself wanting to double click a title bar again thinking it had not received my clicks.
Why it does not get 5 stars: First from their www site I gather the original version of WindowMizer was released sometime around 23-Feb-2013. So now only 6,5 months later we have had to pay for v. 1, v. 2 upgrade and now v. 3 upgrade. Wow - I thought prepaying for a future version of Unsanity products was nuts.
Second - I wonder about their support. If you look in their General Discussion Forum for WindowMizer their last reply to any user is on 15-July-2013. And there is not that much traffic so why no replies to the other calls for help.
Third - and this may be resolved as I have email them: I purchased a 6-computer license of WM 2.x on 13-May-2013. Right now the only upgrade I see if for 2-computers. I feel that within 5 months I should be getting a FREE upgrade and I would like to stay honest and get a 6-computer license again. I'll report back about their response.
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I was also not aware that v.2 was a free update to everyone. Very nice.
THank you for an application I've depended on daily.
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Second - I reply to all enquires in a very timely manner as anyone who has contacted me for support, including yourself knows. Also, I've been rather busy releasing a new update and building a user forum and other support resources for WindowMizer users. It is a ongoing process.
Third - Purchases made after August 1st, 2013 were upgraded for free. WindowMizer is on sale for $8.99 and upgrades are only $4.99. Your total cost per computer including the upgrade would be about 7 bucks. Nuts!
I see your retractions below. Thanks for the clarifications.
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The little bugs are being ironed out all the time and most importantly it's super-stable and works on most of what I want it to. I've requested a few more from the developer who has stated he'll actively look at it within the next 2 months, so kudos there.
I'm a fan of it. Unsanity Who?
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Cowicide reviewed on 17 Sep 2013
There are many different settings, so the app is very polished and complete. The shaded windows play nice with Exposé in 10.6.8 and Spaces (which is vital). You can even move the shaded windows around to other Spaces when showing all Spaces as well.
It seems stable and doesn't appear to slow down my computer at all. It has most all the options you would expect from a Windowshade app including choosing transparent windows of varying opacity instead, etc.
On the downside, you're basically forced to hide all docked windows to the application icon or your dock will get cluttered up pretty quickly because this works by minimizing your windows to the Dock. That's a give and take and I much wish there was some way to windowshade the windows without them having to minimize go to the Dock. This would make it work much more like traditional Windowshade apps I used to see with OS 9 which were fantastic.
Also, there's a slight lag after double-clicking even after choosing all the most optimal settings to speed it up. This is also because of its dependency on minimizing windows I assume. It's not a long delay, but on a powerful computer I get used to near-instant responsiveness in everything I do, so it's a little jarring to see something delay for a half-sec.
On the positive side again, you can at the expense of adding more windows to your Dock and having less space in your Dock, turn off minimizing to app and you'll see all your Windows again instead of being tucked inside your app icons.
Overall, this minimizing dependency is the main reason I'm turned off by WindowMizer but ironically I suspect it's also the very reason it functions so well without having to alter the system.
One glaring mistake is the lack of ability to hide the WindowMizer icon from the Dock taking up previous space. I'll probably end up hacking it to remove it, but it'd be much better if the developer added that as an option in the preferences instead similar to apps like LaunchBar, etc.
I've put it through its paces and it doesn't seem to use much system resources at all. That said, I have run into odd behavior here and there. For example, I've click on shaded windows and they've opened up in another Space. That might have been from moving it to another Space previously or something, but for whatever the reason that's a bug I hope gets squashed.
I haven't yet tested on my Mountain Lion machines, but I'll report back later if it causes trouble there, which I doubt it will because the dev seems very responsive to fixing bugs.
In the end, I'm still deciding if it's worth it considering I have to change my Dock behavior by minimizing windows to apps or don't do it and deal with cluttering up my Dock. I wish I didn't have to make that choice, and hope the dev figures out a stable workaround to that situation.
That said, I'm very happy to see a new, stable, Windowshade app on the OS X scene. I've found Deskovery works better, but I've found it to be buggy and cause conflicts. On the other hand, WindowMizer doesn't seem to conflict with things like DockView which is a critical positive or I couldn't use WindowMizer.
For now, I'm going to continue to use WindowMizer and play with the Dock settings back and forth to see if I can work efficiently with not seeing my minimized windows in the dock. Then I'll try it without minimizing to apps and see how bad it is having WindowMizer adding more stuff to the Dock. I think I'll probably just deal with the latter in the end and be pretty happy with it.
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I ended up just having it put the windows in the dock and not inside the app icons. Between doing that and hacking it to remove it from the dock, it's now much quicker/responsive when I windowshade!
I don't recommend people do this unless they know what they're doing, but it worked great for me. This, once again, was with 10.6.8. I haven't tested it yet on my 10.8.4 machines.
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Coolapic reviewed on 17 Sep 2013
I purchased Windowmizer about a year ago, on that same Swiss app store, and wanted to give it a new review (as the app has much improved since my last review).
No way to do that, I just get a message telling me the app isn't available on the Swiss app store... Though I was able to upgrade it from that same store...
I red that you can't make it as fast as windowshade was... Sad ! I'll give it 4.5 stars anyway, that's because at least you managed to bring a windowshade "clone" back for the addicts (like me) and the speed problem appears not to be your fault.
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ianrid reviewed on 07 Aug 2013
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The "wait time" preference is the maximum amount of time WM will wait for the window to arrive in the dock before releasing the overlay that hides the animation. If the window gets to the dock sooner, it does not wait the full 0.35 seconds.
Hope that helps!
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Frankp reviewed on 31 May 2013
I had a small problem getting it set up properly and Chris responded immediately and got it working.
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Thanx so much for responding here. I've joined Forum for certain clients and had mixed luck getting any actual answers to my questions.
Does WM roll-up all the windows (Option + Double-Click )in a given application the way Windowshade did?
I'm still in Snow Leopard and thinking about upgrading to Mountain Lion... and I love my now defunct WindowShade so I need something good to replace it.
You can also collapse all windows in ALL apps with command+option and double-click.
I am working on making the modifier keys user-definable, but yes it does what you want.
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Thanx so much. As soon as I get a chance to Upgrade to Snow Lion, I'll pick up Windowmizer!
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Screentom rated on 31 Aug 2013
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CHLOEDOG rated on 04 Jul 2013
Nikkig rated on 25 Jun 2013
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Pissnaround rated on 01 Apr 2013
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CHLOEDOG rated on 01 Apr 2013