ScreenSwytch vs the alternatives

An honest look at how it compares · Updated 18 July 2026

There are already several ways to move monitors around on Windows, and some of them are very good. This page is a fair look at where each one shines and where ScreenSwytch is genuinely different, so you can decide whether it fits the way your people actually work.

The short version: most of the alternatives are built either for a technical person at a fixed desk, or for a specific brand of dock. ScreenSwytch is built for ordinary staff at a different desk every day, and for the IT team that has to deploy it to all of them.

  ScreenSwytch Windows (Win+P) DisplayLink hot-desking Profile switchers DisplayFusion / UltraMon
Effortless at each desk Yes, click, pick your left screen No, manual each time Automatic on dock Load a saved profile No, power-user UI
Non-technical friendly Yes Fiddly Yes, once provisioned No No
Works with any dock Any dock Any dock DisplayLink docks only Any dock Any dock
No per-desk setup Nothing to pre-set n/a Per-desk provisioning Pre-save each profile Per-user config
Auto left-right ordering Yes, worked out on the spot No Restores a saved arrangement Replays a saved layout Manual or rules
Silent Intune deploy Yes n/a, built in Driver plus software No Not positioned for it
Per-seat licensing plus console Yes, with console n/a No seat console No Per-licence, no seat console
Price £6 / device / year Free Dock and driver cost Free One-off per user (~£25+)

Prices and capabilities are our best fair reading at the time of writing and can change; check each vendor's own site for the current detail. Free profile switchers referenced include Monitor Profile Switcher, DisplayProfileManager, Multi-Screen Profile Switcher and NirSoft MultiMonitorTool.

Where ScreenSwytch fits

ScreenSwytch is not trying to be the most powerful tool on this page. It is trying to be the simplest one a non-technical person can use without being taught. A click or two, in plain words like tap the screen on your left, and it sorts the extend, the order and the primary for them.

It is dock-agnostic, so any dock works, and there is nothing to pre-configure, because it works the layout out on the spot rather than replaying a saved profile. And it is built for device estates: silent Intune deployment, per-seat licensing and a management console, so IT can hand it to a thousand people and forget about it. That combination, dead-simple for staff and estate-ready for IT, is the gap the others leave.

See it doing its one job.