Taskbar alternatives for Windows 11
Glassline replaces the Windows 11 taskbar and Start menu with a menu bar, a dock and Search, and it works the moment it is installed. Here is what it gives you, and how it stands next to the other ways of changing the taskbar.
What you get with Glassline
- Ready the moment it is installed. No themes to choose, no configuration files to write, no plugins to put together. A short guide shows you around, in your language.
- Your app's menus in the menu bar. It shows the menus of the app in front and takes the colour of a maximized window, so the two read as one.
- Magnification, stacks and unread counts in the dock. Icons grow under the pointer, a dot marks what is running, a count shows unread notifications, a bar shows how far a download or a copy has come, and folders open as stacks. Drop a file on an app to open it there.
- Search on the Windows key. Apps, files, settings and web addresses, sums and unit conversions. It learns what you open and puts it first. With Everything installed it finds any file on your drives as you type.
- Control Center. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, brightness, Night Light, the sound output and the volume of each app, one click away. Headphones connect with a click.
- Your day behind the clock. The calendar, your own events with reminders, and your notifications in one panel. The weather sits in the menu bar.
- Clear glass made for Windows 11. It follows your wallpaper and your accent colour, and every panel shares the same look.
- At home on every display. Each display gets its own menu bar, and you choose how large Glassline is on each one, which matters on a television or a 4K monitor.
- Six languages. English, Spanish, German, Polish, French and Brazilian Portuguese.
- Nothing to undo. Quit or uninstall and the Windows taskbar and Start menu are back exactly as they were.
Make it yours
Glassline is finished when it arrives, and it is yours to change. Pick your accent colour and every switch, slider and highlight takes it. Set the dock's size, the space between its icons, how much they grow under the pointer and when the dock hides. Choose the icons in the menu bar, how the clock reads, and how large the interface is on each display. Everything is in Settings and changes while you watch, with no files to edit.
Glassline and Seelen UI
Seelen UI is a desktop environment built around themes, widgets, plugins and a tiling window manager, made with web technology. Glassline arrives finished and runs as native Windows code. What you want different you change in Settings, while you watch, with no themes to install and no files to edit. Glassline as a Seelen UI alternative.
Glassline and MyDockFinder
MyDockFinder recreates the macOS desktop on Windows. Glassline has a design of its own, made for Windows 11, and brings Search for files and settings, Control Center, your calendar and the weather with it. Glassline as a MyDockFinder alternative.
Glassline, Start11 and StartAllBack
Start11 and StartAllBack restyle the Windows taskbar and Start menu to look like earlier versions of Windows. Glassline takes their place with something new: a menu bar for the app in front, a dock for your apps and folders, and Search on the Windows key.
Glassline and Windhawk
Windhawk is a catalogue of small mods that each change one detail of the taskbar. Glassline is one app that replaces the whole taskbar, with nothing to collect.
Glassline and YASB
YASB is a status bar you describe in a YAML file and style with CSS. In Glassline every option sits in one Settings window that explains itself, and the bar comes with a dock, Search and Control Center.
Glassline and Cairo Desktop
Cairo Desktop is a desktop shell with a menu bar and a taskbar. Glassline is built on ManagedShell, the library that grew out of Cairo, and puts a current design on top of it: clear glass, a dock with magnification and stacks, Control Center, your calendar and the weather.
Try it right now
The home page is a working Glassline: move over its dock, click its menu bar, open Search and Control Center. What you see there is what you get on your desktop.
$9.99 once. No subscription, no account, no ads, and every update is free.
Every product named here belongs to its own makers and has no connection to Glassline. What this page says about them was checked on 4 October 2026.