Windows 10 & 11 · Multi-monitor
Save the windows you have open — position, size, monitor, maximized state — as a named profile. Bring the whole arrangement back with one click, a hotkey, or automatically when you dock your laptop.
Free download · 7 days fully unlocked · then €9.99 once
How it works
Setting up a profile takes about twenty seconds. Using it takes one click for the rest of the app's life.
STEP 01
Open the apps you want and put their windows where you like them — across as many monitors as you have.
STEP 02
Pick which windows belong to this layout, give it a name and an emoji, and bind it to a hotkey if you want.
STEP 03
One click from the window or the tray, a global hotkey, or automatically the moment your monitor setup changes.
Monitor profiles
Assign a layout to a display configuration once. From then on DeskScene watches for changes: connect the desk monitor and your work layout spreads out across both screens. Pull the cable and everything folds back onto the laptop.
Features
Profiles
Save whichever open windows matter, each with a per-window on/off switch. Name it, give it an emoji, done.
Restore
Windows return to their exact position, size, monitor and maximized state. Two browser windows are matched individually, not lumped together.
Hotkeys
Bind profiles to your chosen modifier plus 1–9. Pick between Ctrl+Alt, Ctrl+Shift, Alt+Shift or all three.
Auto-launch
If an app from the profile is closed, DeskScene can open it first and then put its window in place.
Websites
Store a list of URLs with a profile and they open as tabs in a fresh browser window — Chromium-based browsers and Firefox.
Monitor profiles
Assign a layout to a display configuration. Plug in at your desk and the right arrangement is already there.
Tray
Lives in the notification area. Load any profile from the tray menu without opening the window at all.
Startup
Optional autostart, off by default. No background service, no scheduled task you didn't ask for.
Appearance
Dark by default, switch to light, or let it follow whatever Windows is doing.
The obvious question
Partly — and the part it does, it does well. Snap Layouts and FancyZones are about the window you are dragging right now. DeskScene is about the arrangement you keep coming back to.
They solve different halves of the same problem, and nothing stops you from using both — snap a window by hand today, save the result as a profile, and let DeskScene rebuild it tomorrow.
Privacy
There is no account to create and nothing to sign in to, because there is no server on the other end.
No telemetry. DeskScene doesn't measure how you use it and has nothing to report back.
No cloud, no account. Your profiles never leave the machine they were made on.
Plain JSON on disk. Readable, editable, and safe to back up or sync yourself if you want to.
Window titles stay local. Matching windows means reading their titles — that data is written to your AppData folder and nowhere else.
DeskScene%LocalAppData%\Packages\Deskscene.DeskScene_7baf292wdw0j6\LocalCache\Roaming\DeskScene\
workspaces\settings.jsoncrash.logPricing
DeskScene is free to download from the Microsoft Store and runs with every feature unlocked for seven days. Keeping it is a single in-app purchase — no tiers, no upsell, no renewal.
Windows 10 version 1809 or newer · x64 and ARM64
Questions
Yes. A profile records which monitor each window belongs to, however many you have. Monitor profiles match on the whole configuration, so your three-screen desk and your two-screen meeting room can load different layouts.
Because for a moment Windows believes that monitor is gone — on DisplayPort, standby usually drops the connection signal — and it moves everything to a screen you can still reach. It never moves them back. There is a longer answer, with the fixes in order, in windows move to the wrong monitor.
With auto-launch switched on for that profile, DeskScene starts the app first and positions its window once it appears. With it off, missing apps are skipped and everything else is still restored.
No, and it doesn't ask for them. There is one consequence: Windows blocks a normal program from moving a window that runs as administrator. If a tool of yours runs elevated, DeskScene has to run elevated too in order to move it.
Nothing. All seven days are the complete app — unlimited profiles, hotkeys, monitor profiles. A small banner counts down and can be dismissed.
They stay exactly where they are, as plain JSON files in your AppData folder. Nothing is deleted or locked away, and buying the full version picks up where you left off.
No — it runs alongside them. Use snapping to arrange a window the way you like it, then save that arrangement as a DeskScene profile so you never have to do it again.
The purchase runs through the Microsoft Store, so Microsoft's refund policy applies and requests go to Microsoft support. That is also why the trial is seven full days — the idea is that you know before you pay.
Before you install
Every window manager has edges. These are DeskScene's, stated up front rather than discovered later.
UWP windows are hosted by a shared system process and can't be relaunched from an executable path, so they stay out of profiles.
Windows blocks a normal app from moving one that runs as administrator. Nothing DeskScene can do about that.
Exact titles win first; the rest are matched by title similarity and where they sit. Good in practice, not infallible.
Windows treats AltGr as Ctrl+Alt. On layouts that use it for characters, pick Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift in Settings.