Idle aware
Movement begins only after your chosen delay and stops the moment you return.
A screensaver for the windows themselves
Window
Drift
Window Drift turns an idle Windows desktop into a living kinetic composition by gently moving open windows across the screen.
Windows 10/11 · Local only · Open source · v1.02
A browser-made simulation. The real app moves native Windows windows.
Step away.
Your desktop exhales.
Quietly capable
Motion with restraint.
Monitor aware
Windows bounce inside each monitor's work area, leaving the taskbar untouched.
Your tempo
Choose slow drift, clean bounce, or a gently changing random path.
Reversible
Optionally return every moved window to its original position when input resumes.
Designed to be uneventful
Your desktop,
still under control.
No admin privileges. No network access. No telemetry. Window Drift skips minimized, invisible, maximized, fullscreen, system, and excluded windows.
- 01Stops immediately on mouse or keyboard input
- 02Never resizes, focuses, closes, or reorders windows
- 03Handles windows disappearing without interruption
- 04Open source and readable from top to bottom
Make stillness move
Let the windows wander.
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