A complete, native replacement for the Mac dock. Live window previews, folders that open in place, a shelf for your files, widgets, real glass, and magnification so smooth it feels like the system shipped it.
Every part of the Mac dock, rebuilt and taken further. Native SwiftUI, a tiny memory footprint, and the kind of detail you only notice because it is missing everywhere else.
You click an app and hope you land on the right window.
Hold any running app and its windows appear as live thumbnails above the dock. Move straight up, click the one you want, and it comes forward. Or act on them in place: close, minimise, tile to a half or a quarter, go full screen, or quit, without ever raising the app first.
Icons swell under the pointer on a real spring. A smooth wave ripples through their neighbours, runs at the full refresh of your display, and settles without a stutter. Tune the scale and reach until it feels like yours.
A pinned folder just throws you into Finder.
Press a pinned folder and its contents bloom into a panel you can pick from in one gesture. Flick between a list, a grid, an accordion, or a fan that arcs up from the dock, with a preview on hover, and open a file straight from it. Bundle related apps into one icon the same way for a tidier dock.
Right-clicking a dock icon barely does anything.
Right-click any app for the things you actually want. Minimise every window in one go and watch the icon dim until a click brings them all back. Hide them, bring them to this display, close them, jump to a window by name, relaunch, quit, or browse your saved commands. The menu the system never gave you.
Mid-drag, there is nowhere to set a file down.
Drag a file out of Finder onto the dock and it opens into a staging shelf that takes it. Hold files there, pin the folders you reach for most, keep an AirDrop zone in reach, then drag anything straight into the app that needs it.
Glancing at the weather or your calendar means leaving what you are doing.
Stack widgets at either end of the dock and page through them in place. Click the weather for the week ahead, the date for your calendar, and keep a clock, your battery, and Now Playing right there too. Add more from the marketplace, or build your own.
One dock has to serve every kind of work you do.
Open the control panel and pick another profile; the whole dock morphs to the apps, folders, and widgets for that work. Give each display its own, or let AppSense switch for you the moment you focus a particular app.
Every surface is yours to set. Material, size, layout, light, and feel, all live, all in seconds. Here is the dock changing its mind in real time.
The headline features are only half of it. Underneath sits a deep bench of power tools, the kind you keep discovering six months in.
The marketplace at widgets.dockdoor.net is a public repo with a build step. Real SwiftUI widgets, source anyone can read, each one reviewed before it ships to the dock.
Your dock is nobody's business.
No analytics, no crash reporters, no usage tracking, no file scanning. The app never phones home about what you do.
Everything runs locally. The only requests it makes are license activation, update checks, and the forecast if you turn on the weather widget.
Every marketplace widget is open source and public on GitHub. See exactly what runs in your dock before you install it.
The full privacy policy is short, because there is so little to say. Read it here.
It doesn't feel like an add-on.
It feels like macOS shipped it.
Over three hundred settings across sixteen pages, organised so the casual stuff stays simple and the power-user stuff is right there when you reach for it.
DockDoor Free enhances the macOS dock. DockDoor Pro is a separate dock replacement with its own icon previews, profiles, widgets, deep customization, advanced keybinds, and full window control.
A lightweight enhancement for the built-in macOS dock.
A separate app that replaces the dock with a full DockDoor Pro environment.
Window previews for open windows.
Window previews from DockDoor Pro's own dock icons, plus actions, tiling, controls, keybinds, and Alt+Tab style navigation.
Keeps the system dock. It adds features on top of macOS.
Replaces the native dock entirely, with an option to hide the built-in one. macOS may still show its dock in OS-controlled areas like Mission Control.
Focused on lightweight preview improvements.
Profiles, pinned apps, folders, files, links, app groups, spacers, separators, custom icons, and per-display setups.
No widget platform.
Built-in and marketplace widgets: now playing, clock, weather, battery, network, file tray, quick actions, and more.
Use it when you want to keep the built-in dock.
You usually do not need DockDoor Free once Pro is replacing your dock.
Twenty dollars unlocks DockDoor Pro on up to three of your Macs, with every future update included. No subscription. Fourteen days to change your mind.
Already bought? Download the latest, install via Homebrew, get your key, or manage your devices.
Everything you need to know about DockDoor Pro.
Yes, DockDoor Pro is designed to completely replace the built-in macOS dock. You can even use the experimental "Hide Native Dock" option to make it your sole dock experience.
DockDoor Free is a lightweight enhancement for the built-in macOS Dock. It adds window-preview features on top of the system Dock and does not replace anything. DockDoor Pro is a separate app that replaces the Dock entirely, with previews from its own Dock icons, profiles, pinned content, widgets, customization, file staging, Quick Actions, advanced keybinds, Alt+Tab-style navigation, and deeper window controls.
Usually no. If DockDoor Pro is your Dock replacement, you generally do not need DockDoor Free. DockDoor Free is for people who want to keep the built-in macOS Dock and add lightweight preview enhancements.
Buy DockDoor Pro from the pricing section on pro.dockdoor.net. That is the only official checkout, and any keys from an earlier Gumroad purchase keep working exactly as before. There is no legitimate cracked, free, unlocked, torrent, or redistributed copy of DockDoor Pro. Unofficial downloads are not affiliated with us and can be modified to steal data or abuse macOS Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions.
Your key is shown right after checkout, and you can look it up again any time on the key lookup page: enter the transaction ID from your receipt email along with the email you bought with. Bought on Gumroad? Your key is printed directly in the Gumroad receipt. Newly purchased keys need the latest build, so download the current version before pasting the key into Settings, then About.
Yes. DockDoor Pro is available as a Homebrew cask. Run brew install --cask dockdoor-pro in Terminal, then open the app and paste your license key under Settings, then About. Homebrew installs the same signed build as the direct download.
A license covers three Macs. Open the device portal, enter your key, and remove the Mac you are no longer using. That frees a slot right away, and the removed Mac stops being activated within a day.
Absolutely. With dock profiles, you can assign a specific set of applications to each connected display, allowing for a truly tailored multi-display workflow.
No. DockDoor Pro is a fully native app built entirely with SwiftUI and AppKit. This ensures lightning fast performance, minimal memory footprint, and perfect system integration.
Yes. DockDoor Pro shows live thumbnails from its own Dock icons. You can hover or long-press any running app to see all of its open windows, then focus, close, minimize, tile, or trigger configured window actions.
DockDoor Pro supports native Notification Badges. A red dot appears on the app's icon when you have unread notifications, and clears automatically when you focus the app.
Yes, you can replace any dock item's icon with a custom PNG, JPEG, TIFF, or ICNS image. You can also revert to the original icon anytime you like.
You can reach us at [email protected] or join our Discord community for help and feedback.
A one-time unlock, backed by a 14-day money-back guarantee. Built for the Mac you already love.
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