Radial menu apps for Windows 11: the options in 2026

Start with Kando if you want a free, open source pie menu that is actively maintained; it also runs on macOS and Linux. Radial Menu on the Microsoft Store is a simpler free launcher, and if you own a Surface Dial, Wacom tablet or Logitech MX device, check the radial menu that comes with it first. OceanBreeze ($1.99 once) is for a Caps Lock ring with built-in tools and AI actions on selected text.

Side by side

Besides the ones above, AutoHotPie, Wradial and RadialWheel also put a radial or pie menu on Windows 11: seven kinds of tool in all. The biggest differences are price, what opens the menu, and whether it only launches things or has tools of its own. We checked the facts below on each tool's own page on 14 November 2026. New to the idea? What is a radial menu explains why picking by direction is faster than a list.

"Not mentioned" means the tool's own page doesn't describe an AI feature. We didn't test for one.

Picking one

Most of these are launchers: you fill the slots with apps, files and shortcuts. A few come with tools of their own.

Kando

Kando is the most complete free option. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and is MIT licensed; 3.0 came out in September 2026 and 3.0.1 in October. It opens different menus depending on the app in front, supports nested submenus with gesture selection, has themes for menus, icons and sounds, and is designed for mouse, pen, touch and controllers. You build every menu yourself, which is the point if you like to tinker and a chore if you don't.

AutoHotPie

AutoHotPie suits people who already live in AutoHotkey. It describes itself as radial menus for digital artists and macro users, and it needs AutoHotkey v1.1. Its newest release is from April 2024 and its own README warns that there will be bugs, so treat it as a project in slow development, not a maintained product.

Radial Menu

If you just want a ring of shortcuts with no setup beyond the Store, try Radial Menu by Frolt Software. It is free on the Microsoft Store and was updated in November 2026. You open it with a global hotkey and drag buttons onto it for apps, files, folders, clipboard actions and macros.

Wradial and RadialWheel

Both lean toward macros and text. Wradial, in open beta, opens while you hold a trigger key and can paste saved text, run shortcuts and shell commands, and play multi-step sequences; its free plan includes one wheel with all action types. RadialWheel costs a few dollars on itch.io, runs as a single file with no install, and works on top of full-screen games, which makes it a fit for gaming macros.

Surface Dial, Wacom and Logitech

If you own one of these devices, its radial menu costs nothing extra and is built into the device software. Press and hold a Surface Dial and the Windows wheel shows tools like volume, scroll, zoom and undo; you can add custom tools that send any keyboard shortcut. Wacom Center lets you build a radial menu and assign it to a pen button or ExpressKey. Logitech's Actions Ring works with compatible MX mice, keyboards and the MX Creative Console.

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OceanBreeze

OceanBreeze is our app, so read this with that in mind. It opens when you hold Caps Lock and comes with tools instead of empty slots: clipboard history, screenshots with copy text, window snapping, dictation, a timer, a color picker, notes and to-dos. The Apps ring fills itself with your eight most used apps. When you select text first, the ring becomes AI actions such as rewrite, translate and summarize, using your own key for Claude, GPT, Gemini or Mistral, or free local models through Foundry Local or Ollama.

Against that: it costs $1.99 once, with no subscription, while Kando and Radial Menu are free. It runs on Windows 11 only, not Windows 10, macOS or Linux, and it is new, with a much shorter track record than Kando. It isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen warns on first start and you choose More info, then Run anyway. It's closed source and in English only. It also can't open over apps running as administrator, because Windows blocks that.

Radial menu or launcher

A radial menu fits if you repeat the same handful of actions all day and want them under one gesture. If you mostly search for apps and files by name, a keyboard launcher fits better, and many people use both. App launchers for Windows 11 covers that side.

To open a radial menu from Caps Lock, see how to remap Caps Lock on Windows 11. If clipboard history is the main thing you want, clipboard history on Windows 11 compares the options.

Common questions

Sources

Mythic Brain makes OceanBreeze. Facts about other products come from the sources above and were checked on 14 November 2026.