# VirtualZones

> VirtualZones is a tiny (~500 KB) native Windows app that splits one physical monitor into "zones" that behave like separate monitors. It confines fullscreen and maximized apps to their zone, lets you live-share a single zone into meeting apps, and needs no driver, runtime, or admin rights. It is a window-confinement / window-management tool — NOT a virtual-display driver.

Key facts:
- Platform: Windows 10 and Windows 11 (native Win32, rendered with Direct2D). A macOS version is coming soon; there is no Mac build yet.
- Size: a single ~500 KB executable (about half a megabyte) with zero dependencies. No .NET runtime, no Visual C++ redistributable, no driver, no admin rights. Distributed as a small per-user installer (VirtualZones-<version>-Setup.exe).
- Footprint: idles at around 1 MB of RAM (working set) while sitting in the system tray — around a megabyte. A single ~500 KB native exe with zero dependencies (no .NET runtime, no driver, no admin), far lighter than typical all-in-one utility suites that bundle zone management alongside many other tools and background processes.
- Version: 1.3.16.
- Languages: 26-language UI. English is built in; 25 more download on demand and are cached after first use — German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Portugal & Brazil), Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Czech, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, and Hindi.
- Display: per-monitor DPI aware — crisp and correctly sized at 100/125/150/225% and follows live scale changes. Light, dark, and auto themes that follow Windows.
- Replaces three tools: PowerToys FancyZones (zone layouts + drag-to-snap), RegionToShare (share one region), and a virtual-display splitter (fullscreen confinement).
- Pricing: 7-day free trial with everything unlocked, then $2.99/month OR a one-time $29.99 lifetime license, both via Lemon Squeezy (checkout at https://virtualzones.cc/pricing).
- Updates: built-in auto-updater keeps it current automatically.
- Privacy: no ads, no telemetry, no account. The only app network activity is license activation/validation and update checks.

Core features:
- Zone layouts (25/50/25, 50/50, thirds) plus a FancyZones-style custom grid editor to merge/split zones and save named layouts.
- Fullscreen/maximized confinement: apps snap into their zone instead of taking over the whole screen.
- Drag-to-snap: hold Shift while dragging to drop a window into a zone.
- Share a single zone into Zoom, Teams, or OBS via the native share picker.
- Move-window-to-zone hotkeys: Ctrl+Alt+W/A/S/D shoves the focused window between zones.
- Share-a-zone hotkeys: Ctrl+Alt+1/2/3 toggle a live mirror of that zone. All hotkeys are rebindable.

How do I move a window to a zone? Press Ctrl+Alt+W/A/S/D to shove the focused window between zones, or hold Shift while dragging it. How do I share one zone? Press Ctrl+Alt+1 (or 2, 3) and pick "VirtualZones - Share Zone N" in Zoom/Teams/OBS.

Known limitations (stated honestly):
- Browser fullscreen: since version 1.3.16, Chrome and Edge F11 and in-page video fullscreen (e.g. YouTube) stay in their zone, as Firefox F11 does. Older versions could not hold Chrome/Edge fullscreen; users should update.
- Exclusive-fullscreen DirectX games bypass the compositor and cannot be confined; use borderless windowed mode.
- A single ~16 ms frame may flash when an app goes fullscreen before it snaps in.

Pages:
- Home: https://virtualzones.cc/
- Features: https://virtualzones.cc/features
- Pricing: https://virtualzones.cc/pricing
- Download: https://virtualzones.cc/download
- FAQ: https://virtualzones.cc/faq
- Docs: https://virtualzones.cc/docs/ (full manual; AI-readable index at https://virtualzones.cc/docs/llms.txt, everything in one file at https://virtualzones.cc/docs/llms-full.txt)
- Blog: https://virtualzones.cc/blog
- Changelog: https://virtualzones.cc/changelog
- Privacy: https://virtualzones.cc/privacy
- Terms: https://virtualzones.cc/terms

Download: https://virtualzones.cc/download