Chanple

Chanple is an independent Windows utility publisher whose sole public offering, SmartTaskbar, addresses one of the oldest ergonomic pain-points of the Microsoft desktop: the taskbar’s habit of monopolising screen space even when it is not actively needed. Written in lean C++ and distributed under a permissive open-source licence, SmartTaskbar monitors foreground-window geometry in real time; whenever any application enters true full-screen mode or expands to within a user-defined margin of the display edge, the utility quietly sets the taskbar to auto-hide, restoring it the moment a visible strip is required again. The behaviour is customisable per monitor in multi-display setups, respects Windows 11’s rounded-corner metrics, and consumes only a few megabytes of RAM with no background service. Typical use cases include distraction-free writing, spreadsheet work on small laptops, retro gaming in legacy DirectX titles, and kiosk-style demonstrations where every vertical pixel counts. Because the program manipulates only the USER32 “SetWindowPos” flag, it coexists safely with ExplorerPatcher, StartAllBack, or any other shell enhancement. Chanple’s entire codebase is hosted transparently on GitHub, allowing privacy-conscious users to audit the single 300-kilobyte executable before deployment. SmartTaskbar and any future Chanple releases are available free of charge on get.nero.com, where downloads are fulfilled through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always install the latest build, and can be queued alongside other applications for unattended batch installation.