Compare - WowOpenBox/WowOpenBox GitHub Wiki
Feature | WowOpenBox OpenMultiBoxing | Joe MultiBoxer (jmb) | Wow Switcher | FancyZones | Hardware Boxing | ISBoxer |
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Allowed by Blizzard | ✅ Verifiable (but see #134) | Possibly but already crossing lines with input hooks, injection, 3d control etc... | Possibly | ✅ probably (microsoft) | Unknown | ❌ banned! |
Specifically tuned for World of Warcraft | ✅ Yes | Mostly | ✅ Yes | ❌ | ❌ | Yes |
Windows 10 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
Runs as normal app | ✅ Yes | ❌ No, requires admin (danger!) | ? | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Round Robin switch focus | ✅ Separate, if you feel it's not a safe feature | ✅ | ? | ❌ No | N/A | Yes |
Fully dynamic (can change all settings or even reload/update the code any time) | ✅ Yes | ❌ Not even settings | ? | No | n/a | Partially |
Window Layout dynamic wizard | ✅ | ❌ no | ❌ | ? | ❌ | Not dynamic |
Released | Second | Third | ✅ First | preexisting | n/a | before changes |
Open source | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | n/a | ❌ |
Free | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | hardware cost | ❌ |
Can be extended | ✅ | ❌ plugins but base is proprietary | ❌ | Maybe | possibly | ❌ |
Community input on features | ✅ | ? | ? | Not wow specific | n/a | ❌ |
Updated | Weekly | Alpha quality without a single update in 4 months so far | ? | n/a | n/a | isboxer2 'soon' for 2+ years |
Programming/extensibility language | Tcl/Tk open source standard | Proprietary invented/need to learn | ❌ | C++ | n/a | ❌ |
Paid "support" and long winded videos ;-) | ❌ | not even | ❌ | no | n/a | ✅ |
See also https://github.com/Furyswipesvg/Furyswipes_5mmb_Shadowlands for another free, opensource and Tcl based alternative, I believe it actually got updated before Wow switcher and WOB but I wasn't aware of it until recently. It doesn't have the GUI (like Windows Layout) WOB has but does have in game macros, round robin, and tries to get you up and running with multiboxing fast!