DeskRipple keeps each group of shortcuts in a single folder icon on the Windows 10 and 11 desktop. The icons sit behind your windows like native icons, open into a shortcut panel on hover or click, and collapse back to one icon. Five expand styles (Grid, Column, Row, Fan, Ring), themed panels with adjustable opacity, live desktop-grid snapping, and per-monitor DPI awareness. Drag in .lnk shortcuts, .url web links, files, and Microsoft Store apps; DeskRipple keeps its own copy of each shortcut and web link, so those entries survive the original being moved or deleted. By default, dragging a desktop shortcut into a folder archives the original (it returns when you remove the entry or uninstall). Switch between named desktop profiles. Try DeskRipple free for 14 days, with every feature included. No account or payment details are required to start. If it fits your workflow, DeskRipple is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.
What's new in 1.1.1
DeskRipple v1.1.1
DeskRipple 1.1.1 is a maintenance release. It starts sooner after you sign in, puts a Help link in the app, and carries fixes for updates, icons, profiles and dialogs. If DeskRipple is already installed and running, it updates itself in the background. New here? The installer is below.
> 🔑 Try DeskRipple free for 14 days, with every feature included. No account or payment details are required to start. If it fits your workflow, DeskRipple is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Enter a key once, under Manager → About or on the license screen, and there's no expiry — the key is verified on your own PC, with no account and no activation server. DeskRipple asks you to accept the license agreement (EULA) on first run.
🔧 What's new in 1.1.1
• DeskRipple starts sooner after you sign in. The scheduled task that launches DeskRipple at sign-in ran it at below-normal priority, and it stayed there for the whole session. Among everything else that starts at sign-in, the first folder icon could take 20 seconds or more to appear. The task now runs DeskRipple at normal priority, never above it, and an existing install updates its own task the first time it starts after this update. On the development machine, the wait for the first icon after a restart roughly halved. • Help is one click away. The tray menu has a Help item, the Manager footer a Help link, and the About and welcome dialogs point to the same place: deskripple.com/help. It covers the first minute, where a desktop shortcut went, the Manager, expand styles, settings, profiles, privacy, updates, your license and troubleshooting. • Opening the Manager always brings it back. If the Manager had been minimized, double-clicking the tray icon, choosing Open Manager, opening it from a folder's menu or starting DeskRipple a second time left it minimized, so the click seemed to do nothing. It now comes back where it was. • A stuck update no longer blocks newer ones. When an update had been downloaded but could not be applied at restart, because something held the install folder open at that moment, DeskRipple kept that download and stopped checking for newer releases. It now keeps checking, and a newer release replaces the stuck download and applies in the usual way. …
DeskRipple is proprietary software from DeskRipple. Check the publisher's license terms for pricing and usage rights.
What is the latest version of DeskRipple?
The latest version is 1.1.1, released on Oct 14, 2026.
Is it safe to download DeskRipple?
The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with 994910be8eef24db5a622e8cf7ee36278652a56a2740b1d4fd453ebf3307c92f.
Which Windows versions does DeskRipple support?
DeskRipple runs on Windows and is available for 64-bit (x64) systems.
How do I uninstall DeskRipple?
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find DeskRipple and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=DeskRipple.DeskRipple -e.
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