Top 15 Vista Rainbar Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

1. Google Desktop

The power of Google on your desktop. Hit ctrl twice and you are ready for a full Google search of you hard drive and networked drives you may have. Indispensable if you need to find files quickly... the price doesn't hurt either!As of September 14, Google Desktop will no longer...... TpSort Score | 15,700,000

2. Thoosje Sevenbar

Thoosje Sevenbar has gadgets like media players, google search, yahoo search and lots of more search engines. It has also Windows 7 sidebar gadgets like weather and system uptime and lots of more useful gadgets. The sidebar uses 50% less RAM and is faster than the original Microsoft Sidebar with...... TpSort Score | 52,000

3. Hydra Browser

Hydra is a web browser with Office 2007 style interface, intended to be a good companion to your primary browser. Hydra is loaded with features built right into the software, such as a translator (using three services publicly available - Google, Babelfish and Tranexp), autologger, form filler (sort off...), RSS...... TpSort Score | 17,900,000

4. Metro Sidebar

Metro Sidebar brings the Windows 8 Metro user interface in the form of a sidebar for Windows 7. This sidebar comes with five different colors (blue, red, black, orange and green), which can be changed manually to match your current wallpaper. The Sidebar contains shortcuts to your favorite browser (either,...... TpSort Score | 298,000

5. Screenlets

Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as "the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk". Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, ... the possibilities are endless.The goal of the Screenlets base-classes is to simplify the creation of fully themeable mini-apps that each solve basic desktop-work-related...... TpSort Score | 192,000,000

6. My MSN

My MSN is a personalizable homepage powered by Bing search. You can add and organize thousands of new topics from MSN and all over the Web, simplified the design, and made the page faster so you can spend more time "doing' and less time waiting.You can add virtually...... TpSort Score | 50,400,000

7. Yahoo Widget

Choose from 1,000s of Widgets. Weather, Games, Web Cams, Time Savers and more....... TpSort Score | 54,000,000

8. Dashcode

Dashcode in Snow Leopard lets you quickly and easily build elegant and compelling Dashboard widgets. Created to meet the needs of widget developers, Dashcode combines powerful visual layout tools with a code editor, debugger, and comprehensive package management into a world-class integrated development environment. So you can create powerful and...... TpSort Score | 3,830,000

9. gDesklets

gDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.You can populate your desktop with status meters, icon bars, weather sensors, news tickers... whatever you can imagine... Virtually anything is possible and may even be available some...... TpSort Score | 28,500,000

10. Microsoft Gadgets

Microsoft Gadgets are light-weight single-purpose applications that can sit on the users computer desktop, or are hosted on a web page. According to Microsoft, it will be possible for the different types of gadgets to run on different environments without modification, but this is currently not the case....... TpSort Score | 300,000,000

11. Windows Sidebar

(Due to a security vulnerability, it is recommended to turn off Sidebar and Gadgets.) Windows Sidebar is a long, vertical bar that is displayed on the side of your desktop. It contains mini-programs called gadgets, which offer information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools. For...... TpSort Score | 2,790,000

12. Slide

Slide lets you use photos and other digital content to publish and discover the people and things that matter to you. With a super easy set-up, clean interface and multiple transition and theme options, Slide is among the most popular tools for self expression on the web today. Slide can...... TpSort Score | 153,000,000

13. Elveos

Elveos was a crowdfunding website dedicated to free software....... TpSort Score | 2,190,000

14. Fundry

Fundry helps developers get paid for developing new features, and enables your community to contribute to get the features they want. It also supports pledges and donations....... TpSort Score | 2,090,000

15. Astrid

At its core, Astrid is a open source todo list that helps you get stuff done. That's why Astrid makes it really easy to create lists of tasks, as well as set priority, set due dates, and times.Astrid makes it easy to ask for help, delegate and share lists. All...... TpSort Score | 1,080,000