Version 1.3.5 (2026-09-07)
β¨ New Features
- New AppleScript command to hide just the active window
- Run
osascript -e 'tell application "DockDoor Pro" to hide active window' to hide only the frontmost app's focused window, instead of hiding the whole app
- Only works for windows on a regular Desktop space; fullscreen and tiled windows aren't supported
π Bug Fixes
- Dock no longer overlaps menus and screenshot controls that should sit above it
- Right-click context menus that flip upward near the bottom of the screen are no longer clipped by the dock
Version 1.3.4 (2026-09-06)
π Bug Fixes
- HOTFIX: Dragging files to app not getting recognized for some users
Version 1.3.3 (2026-09-06)
π Bug Fixes
- Fixes a brief blink of the dock right after switching Spaces via Mission Control, a trackpad swipe, or Control+arrow.
Version 1.3.2 (2026-09-05)
β¨ New Features
- Preview Word, Pages, and text files in folder hover previews
- Hovering a Word doc, Pages doc, RTF, plain text, Markdown, or CSV file now shows a real content thumbnail instead of a generic icon
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Dock stays completely still during Space switches, Mission Control, and ExposΓ©
- No more fading or flickering when switching desktops
- Hide the dock when you click Show Desktop widget (moved option)
- Dock slides off-screen in fullscreen apps instead of fading
- Mission Control reveals the dock sooner when closing from a fullscreen app
- Window previews, the window switcher, and Glance open faster
- Cached thumbnails appear immediately while the rest load in
- Lower idle CPU and battery use
- Fixes the dock silently animating in the background when it auto-shrinks to fit many icons
- Clicking a dock icon while it's revealed in a fullscreen app no longer causes a retract-then-reveal stutter
- Tooltips fade out smoothly instead of snapping away when the dock hides
π Bug Fixes
- Magnification and tooltips no longer get stuck or linger when switching to a window on another Space
- Show Desktop from a fullscreen app always keeps the dock visible on the desktop
- Mission Control now shows the dock correctly for whatever Space you land on
- Window switcher and Glance no longer briefly flash a plain list before thumbnails load
- Fixed a clipped dock border near widgets pushed to the side of the icon row
- Clicking an icon mid-magnification now registers on the first click
- Fixed a background issue where keyboard and gesture shortcuts could accumulate stale system registrations across repeated sleep/wake cycles
Version 1.3.1 (2026-09-02)
π Bug Fixes
- Accessibility Isolation now fully hands-off
- Apps you've added to Accessibility Isolation (Settings > Dock > Accessibility Isolation) could still be interrupted or have their menu items read in some cases
- Clicking an isolated app's dock icon now only brings it to the front, without sending it a reopen request
Version 1.3.0 (2026-09-01)
β¨ New Features
- Hide windows off-screen instead of minimizing them (new keybind functionality introduced in 1.2.0 > upgraded behavior)
- The hide-active-window shortcut now moves the window off-screen instantly, with no minimize animation and no dock tile
- It comes back automatically the next time you switch to that app or click its dock icon
- Multi-row dock previews
- Previews can now wrap into multiple rows instead of only scrolling sideways
- Set the maximum with Settings > Previews > Dock Previews > Preview Card > Layout > Max Preview Rows (1-8, default 3)
- Traffic light button, card and widget glimmer effect
- Dock cards and widget cards can show a subtle angled shine along their edges
- Toggle in Settings > Appearance: "Card Glimmer" for app cards (only shown when the running-app indicator style is set to Card), and "Widget Card Glimmer" for widget cards (only shown when widget style is Card); both on by default
- Show a dot for apps with just one open window
- New "Single Window Dot" option under Enhanced Running Indicators in Settings > Dock (off by default); card-style indicators normally only start counting dots at two windows
- Accessibility isolation for fragile apps
- Mark specific apps so DockDoorPro never queries them for window info, avoiding crashes in apps that misbehave when probed
- Settings > Dock > Excluded Running Apps > Accessibility Isolation > "Add Apps..." to add, "Remove" or "Clear All" to manage the list
- Previews and window info are unavailable for isolated apps
- Keep File Tray contents after restart
- New "Keep Files After Restart" setting keeps files you've dropped in the File Tray after quitting and reopening; off by default
- Turning it on adopts files already sitting in the tray; if an item's original file is later moved or deleted elsewhere, it drops out of the tray
- Custom File Tray and Open Apps icons
- Pick your own SF Symbol for the File Tray and Open Apps shelf pages
- Settings > File Tray > File Tray Symbol / Open Apps Symbol (each shown once that page is enabled; falls back to the default icon if your chosen symbol isn't available)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Apps with no open windows now show a clearly hollow or empty indicator, instead of looking the same as apps that do have windows
- Cleaner Appearance settings layout
- Dock control options (profile button, compact mode, indicators, and more) are grouped into a collapsible "Adjust dock controls" section
- The Active App Handle option is grouped into "Adjust app dots"
- Smoother dock preview resizing when content changes
- Long-press to preview a dock icon is more reliable while the dock is magnifying
- Magnification stays smooth when moving your cursor from a dock icon into its open preview panel
π Bug Fixes
- Quitting an app from the dock no longer leaves a stuck, invisible "save changes?" dialog
- Clicking a dock icon for an app with a hidden window now brings it back and focuses it
- Hiding an app's last window now correctly switches the menu bar to the next app (or Finder) instead of leaving the hidden app shown as active
- Window-count dots on running-app cards are now clearly visible instead of nearly invisible
- A slow-loading preview thumbnail no longer collapses the whole preview panel into list view
- Hovering a preview panel while its content shrinks no longer causes it to close out from under your cursor
- The window switcher removes a window's card immediately if it's closed elsewhere, instead of leaving a stale entry
- Long-pressing a dock icon can no longer accidentally trigger while dragging it to reorder, and vice versa
Version 1.2.3 (2026-08-23)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Window titles on per-window dock icons (when ungrouped)
- When an app is set to show one dock icon per window, each icon can display a small title label so you can tell windows apart at a glance
- Find it in Settings > Dock > Ungrouped Windows > Show Window Titles, on by default
π Bug Fixes
- Per-window dock icons show only their own window in previews
Version 1.2.2 (2026-08-22)
β¨ New Features
- Ungroup windows for pinned apps too
- Right-click (or long-press) a pinned app's dock icon and choose "Ungroup Windows" to show each open window as its own icon
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Long tooltip titles wrap instead of stretching across the screen
π Bug Fixes
- Dock magnification no longer collapses early when your cursor is still over an icon near the settings/profile controls at the start of the dock
- Volume and other sliders in the control panel drawer now respond reliably to drag, with a full-size draggable area
- Idle volume percentage in the Now Playing widget no longer gets cut off
- Fixed a bug where repeatedly opening the control panel drawer could leave extra system audio resources reserved in the background
- Fan-out action menus stay correctly aligned to their dock icon near screen edges or the menu bar
- Volume tooltip no longer jitters while scrolling to adjust volume
- Removed a one-time upgrade notice about widget stacks that only appeared for accounts upgrading from very old versions; it no longer applies
Version 1.2.1 (2026-08-22)
β¨ New Features
- Show each window as its own dock icon
- Right-click a running app's icon and choose "Ungroup Windows" to give every open window its own icon with its title
- Manage this per app in Settings > Dock > Ungrouped Windows, including "Add Apps..."
- Liquid Crest glass magnification effect
- Adds a cursor-following glass swell and glowing tint to the dock's Liquid Glass background while magnifying
- Off by default; enable it in Settings > Appearance > Magnification (only shown when Background style is Liquid Glass)
- Hide just the active window
- New shortcut hides only the front app's focused window; it reappears automatically when you switch back to that app
- Record a shortcut in Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts > Window Actions > "Hide Active Window" (no default key assigned)
- Arrow key navigation in the window switcher
- While the switcher is open, press Up/Down to jump between rows of window previews, wrapping around at the edges
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Magnification feels smoother and more stable overall
- App launch, bounce, and window-appear animations no longer stutter while hovering or magnifying the dock
- The "launching" indicator (the dots/bar that appears under an app while it opens) now blinks more smoothly with less impact on dock performance
- Switching dock profiles across displays is faster and less likely to briefly scramble icon order
- Traffic-light window controls (close/minimize/zoom) in an app's window drawer only appear on hover, instead of taking up empty space at rest
- Updated translations for several languages
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed waving dock icons (Wave magnification style) getting visually clipped at their peak rotation
- Fixed pinned Parall shortcuts sometimes showing the wrong running state or wrong window previews
- Fixed quitting a pinned Parall shortcut sometimes quitting every instance of the underlying app instead of just that shortcut
- Fixed pinned separators and widget stacks occasionally freezing or stuttering between positions when pins were added or removed
- Fixed a new icon appearing mid-magnification (e.g. Handoff) sometimes overlapping its neighbor and leaving a gap
- Fixed invoking Siri unexpectedly opening DockDoor Pro's settings window
- Fixed an icon getting stuck and unresponsive to hover/magnification after its window list changed quickly
- Fixed changing dock position via Shortcuts/automation leaving the dock visually clipped in its old orientation
- Fixed left/right-edge docks appearing misaligned with the auto-hide reveal area on right-to-left system languages (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew)
Version 1.2.0 (2026-08-13)
β¨ New Features
- Auto-Hide can now wait until a window overlaps the dock (intellihide - gnome style)
- Settings > General > Auto-Hide > Hide picker: choose "Always" (classic) or "When Windows Overlap"
- In overlap mode the dock stays visible until a window actually intrudes into its area
- AppSense can return to a fallback profile automatically
- Settings > Dock > AppSense > "Auto-Switch Profile When No Linked App Is Focused" (off by default, needs 2+ enabled profiles)
- Pick a specific profile or "Previous Profile" to restore whatever was active before the switch
- Scroll on a window preview to trigger an action
- Settings > Previews > Scroll Actions: pick separate actions for scrolling up and down (minimize, maximize, hide, close, quit, and more), off by default
- New exclusion option for Quit After Last Window Closes
- Settings > Interactions > Quit After Last Window Closes > Apply To > "All Apps Except Selected," then build your exclusion list
- Set a single modifier key as the window switcher Back Key
- Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts > Back Key: record β, β₯, β§, or β alone
- Once set, it replaces Shift+switcher key for cycling backward
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Auto-hide slides and reveals feel snappier
- Moving the cursor away while icons are magnified hides the dock immediately instead of waiting
- Returning the cursor mid-hide reverses the slide right away instead of waiting for the normal reveal delay
- Settings search is more accurate
- Minor visual polish on the profile shortcut "Add" menu in Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed keyboard shortcut recording sometimes failing to capture keypresses on the newest macOS versions
- Fixed notification badge numbers on app groups looking tiny inside an oversized circle; badges now scale with the badge size and align with regular icon badges
- Fixed identical or cloned monitors sometimes swapping their dock positions, settings, and profiles with each other
- Fixed AppSense losing its fallback profile setting if that profile was deleted or disabled, and fixed AppSense settings not restoring correctly when importing a settings backup
Version 1.1.7 (2026-08-12)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Typing in the window switcher no longer triggers search accidentally
- Fixed keybind recording for backwards navigation
- Smoother dock performance
- Less work per frame while dragging icons and during hover magnification
- Now Playing volume icon and percentage render more crisply
- Updated translations
Version 1.1.6 (2026-08-10)
β¨ New Features
- See and change your Mac's volume from the Now Playing widget
- While nothing is playing, the widget can show a live volume icon and percentage instead of a static idle icon
- In the larger layout, drag the built-in slider to adjust volume right from the dock; it orients correctly on vertical docks
- Turn on "Show Volume When Idle" in the Now Playing widget's settings (off by default)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother name tooltips above dock icons
Version 1.1.5 (2026-08-10)
β¨ New Features
- Clock widget can now show seconds
- Turn on "Show Seconds" in the Clock widget's options (off by default)
- Set a dedicated key to cycle backward through windows
- Record it under "Back Key" in Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts, in the Window Switching section
- Ability to disable the confirmation when emptying trash
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Updated translations across supported languages
- Applies automatically based on your macOS language setting
π Bug Fixes
- Dock no longer ends up misplaced or mis-sized after launch
- Could happen when DockDoor Pro started while the macOS Dock was visible or mid-hide; it now corrects itself automatically
Version 1.1.4 (2026-08-05)
π Bug Fixes
- No more double flash - clicking an app whose windows live on a different Space made the dock dim, reappear, then dim again
Version 1.1.3 (2026-08-05)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Updated translations across supported languages
π Bug Fixes
- Web apps now come forward reliably when clicked in the dock (fixes unexpected closure of webapps)
Version 1.1.2 (2026-08-03)
β¨ New Features
- New Accordion view for pinned folders
- Choose it in Settings > Appearance > Folders > Folder View Style, alongside List and Grid
- Search your open windows in the window switcher
- Turn on Enable Search in Settings > Window Switcher (off by default), then just start typing while the switcher is open to filter by app name or window title
- Custom image icons for dock profiles
- Turn on Use Icon Styling (Settings > Appearance > Style) to show the image as a full app-style icon that magnifies with the dock, with a slider to adjust how large the image sits; leave it off to keep a compact button
- Custom backgrounds for widget cards
- Find it under Settings > Appearance > Widgets > Adjust widget cards > Card Background when the widget style is set to Card; the default is unchanged unless you opt in
- Optional card background behind the dock's profile and settings buttons
- Turn on Card Behind Dock Controls in Settings > Appearance > Style to match them to your app icons (off by default)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Adjustable spacing for menus and popovers
- A Panel Spacing slider in Settings > Appearance > Size controls padding and row density in right-click menus, the file tray, the profile picker, and similar panels (default 8pt)
- The Compact, Cozy, and Roomy presets now set it too
- Independent icon and text sizing for compact preview rows
- Turn off Automatic Icon Size to pick an exact app icon size, and use the new Title Text Size picker for row text, separately for dock previews, the window switcher, and Glance
- Preview panel dims behind full-size window previews
- On by default; turn it off with Dim Preview Panel in Settings > Previews > Dock Previews
- New Moderate haptic intensity level
- Web apps saved from Safari or Chrome now appear in app search
- They show correct icons and launch properly once added to your dock
- Search results are also alphabetized and can show far more matches, so apps no longer go missing from long lists
- Faster, smoother folders and fan-outs with many items
- App names shown in the Now Playing source picker
- Hover any icon in the fan-out to see its name; source icons also match your fan-out icon size setting
- Updated and expanded translations
π Bug Fixes
- Windows from virtual machine apps like Parallels no longer flicker endlessly against the dock
- When a window keeps undoing the app's attempt to resize it out of the way, DockDoor Pro now pauses for about a minute instead of fighting it
- Window previews no longer pop open under a file you're dragging across the dock
- Long titles no longer stretch or break the hover label when hovering an app group
Version 1.1.1 (2026-07-29)
β¨ New Features
- Automatic daily settings backups
- On by default; toggle Automatic Backups in Settings > About > Backup & Restore
- Adjustable icon size for folder and app group panels
- Set it with the Fan-Out Icon Size slider in Settings > Appearance > Folders, from 24 to 64 points (default is 40); the panel resizes itself to fit
- Put the Handoff tile anywhere in your dock
- Add a Handoff Tile marker from the add-item menu in Settings > Dock, then drag it where you want
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Icons magnify while the hidden dock slides into view
- The reveal is now one smooth motion like the native Dock, instead of sliding up flat and magnifying afterward
- Cleaner dock animations when switching desktops and Spaces
- More of the interface is translated
- Several settings labels now appear in your language, and the Show in Finder action is translated everywhere it appears, including right-click menus, gesture options, File Tray settings, and pinned folders
- If you use a different file manager, the action still shows that app's name
- Translations were also updated across all supported languages
- Steadier memory use with Now Playing widgets active over long sessions
π Bug Fixes
- The dock can no longer get stuck invisible after Mission Control, a cancelled Space swipe, or a long-held swipe gesture
- Leaving a fullscreen app no longer flashes the dock over your desktop when auto-hide is on
- Icons no longer stop magnifying on hover after a dock item is removed and quickly re-added
- Icons no longer refuse to magnify after a reveal when auto-hide animation speed is set to instant
- The edge-approach haptic no longer repeats while the dock is mid-slide
- Right-clicking a file in the File Tray opens its menu next to that file, not offset after the tray's contents shifted
- Folder fan-out grids and lists no longer show occasional blank or incorrectly drawn icons while loading
- Apps without standard identifying information can now be added to the dock, with their proper icon, instead of being treated as generic files
- The app no longer crashes in some translated languages because of faulty translations; broken text safely falls back to English
- Corrected several broken translated strings so they display properly
Version 1.1.0 (2026-07-23)
β¨ New Features
- Choose what middle-clicking a dock icon does
- Pick from Quit, Force Quit, Hide, Minimize All, Close All Windows, New Window, Show Window Previews, Show in Finder, Relaunch, or nothing in Settings > Interactions > Middle Click Action
- The default is still Quit, and if you had middle-click-to-quit turned off before, middle click stays off
- Your choice also works on apps inside group panels, and closing actions close minimized-window tiles
- Hide running apps on specific dock profiles
- Settings > Dock > Running App Options > Hide on Dock Profiles picks which profiles hide unpinned running apps
- Handy for keeping one minimal profile for presentations and a full one for everyday work
- Choose how panels animate in
- Settings > Interactions > Panel Animation Style: Scale (the default), Fade, Slide, or Instant
- Custom icons and name highlights for app groups
- Select a group in Settings > Dock and pick a custom icon in place of the mini-grid of member apps
- The Custom Icon Scale slider now applies to group icons too
- Turn on Highlight App Name for a group to tint the panel's app name with colors from that app's icon
- Launching apps appear in the dock right away
- An app's icon joins the running row with a native-style bounce the moment it starts, before its first window opens
- Confirmation before removing dock items or ungrouping
- On by default; turn it off with Confirm Before Removing Items in Settings > Interactions > Click Behavior
- Hide pinned apps from the Open Apps shelf
- Turn on Hide Pinned Apps in Settings > File Tray > Open Apps so each app appears only once
- Choose whether maximized windows hide the dock
- The dock now gets out of the way when a window covers everything below the menu bar, like a maximized video player
- Control it with the new Include Maximized Windows toggle under Hide in Fullscreen in Settings > General, on by default
- New Icon Row Padding slider
- Adds breathing room at both ends of the app icons row, separate from icon spacing and edge padding
- Ranges from 0 to 48 in Settings > Appearance under Adjust spacing
- Marketplace widgets gain table options and scroll support
- Widgets can offer list-style options you edit as a table, with Add Row and a delete button per row
- Widgets that support it now respond when you scroll over them in the dock
- Widget options use the same styling as the rest of Settings
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Lower energy use while idle and during everyday activity
- Wider ranges on the spacing sliders
- Widget Gap renamed to Section Gap
- Marketplace warns when a widget needs a newer app version
- Complete translations in 15 languages (thanks to the community contributors!!)
- Clearer app group panels and settings rows
π Bug Fixes
- Hide in Fullscreen detects fullscreen far more reliably
- Icons no longer bounce or stay magnified forever after crossing displays quickly
- Icons no longer stay dimmed after closing a minimized window
- Icon state also updates right away after closing, minimizing, restoring, hiding, or fullscreening windows from previews and gestures
- The profile control shows the correct icon after scroll-cycling through profiles
- The β-Tab glance panel closes cleanly
- Window previews fade out in place instead of collapsing toward a corner
Version 1.0.2 (2026-07-17)
π Bug Fixes
- Dock overlap gap fix
- Scroll bars no longer flash or squeeze dock panel content
Version 1.0.1 (2026-07-16)
π Bug Fixes
- Fixes issue with drag detection related to the new icon rendering code logic
Version 1.0.0 (2026-07-16)
β¨ New Features
- New Bounce magnification style
- Icons hop like a bouncy ball as your cursor crosses them, instead of growing
- Pick it in Settings > Appearance > Magnification; a Bounce Height slider controls the hop
- Continue Handoff activities from the dock
- When a nearby iPhone or iPad offers an activity (like a Safari page or Mail draft), a tile appears at the start of the dock with the app's icon and a small device badge
- On by default; toggle with Show Handoff in Settings > Dock > Content
- Turn the shelf off, or pick which pages it has
- Exclude apps from window previews
- Settings > Previews > Shared > Excluded Apps; remove apps individually or Clear All
- Drop dragged files onto a specific window
- Choose Show App ExposΓ© as the "Dropping Files on the Dock" behavior in Settings; dropping straight on the icon still opens the file with that app
- Speed up every animation, all the way to instant
- A new Animation Speed slider goes from 1x to 4x; at 4x animations are skipped entirely so everything appears instantly
- Settings > Interactions > Gestures; also findable by searching "animation speed" in Settings
- Link several apps to one AppSense profile
- The profile activates when any linked app comes to the front; the row summarizes the link state, like "Linked to 3 apps"
- Click Choose App (or Add Apps once linked) under a profile's AppSense row in Settings > Dock to pick from a searchable list
- Put running apps at the dock's edges
- In taskbar mode, the running apps section can sit at the far left or right instead of the centered row; use its Edge picker or drag it there
- Any dock item, apps and folders included, can now be dragged into the edge areas, and edge items magnify on hover like the rest of the dock
- Choose which calendar app your widgets open
- Pick Apple Calendar, Fantastical, BusyCal, or any installed calendar app in the calendar and daily agenda widget options
- Click the widget to open your calendar app, or click a selected day to jump straight to that date
- Choose window preview quality versus memory (ported from DockDoor free)
- A Capture Quality picker offers Best quality for full Retina sharpness or Improved performance (the default) for lower memory use
- An Image Resolution Scale slider (1 to 4, default 1) shrinks thumbnails further to save memory
- Both live in Settings > Previews > Performance and are findable in Settings search
- New Window button for window previews (ported from DockDoor free)
- Brings the app forward and asks it for a new window (some apps open a new document or message instead)
- Enable it in the preview action picker in Settings; a one-time explanation appears when you turn it on
- Set the dock's position from AppleScript or Terminal
- Choose bottom, left, or right for all displays or one, and use "default" to clear a display's override
- For example, run
osascript -e 'tell application "DockDoor Pro" to set dock position "left"', adding for display "Built-in Display" to target one screen
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Folder and app group panels now fit their contents
- A few items sit in a single row; larger collections grow into a wider grid, and very large ones scroll with softly faded edges instead of flipping through pages
- Big folders open, scroll, and close much more smoothly, and busy pinned folders (like Downloads) no longer make the dock stutter
- Hover previews and right-click panels appear next to the item you're pointing at, even after scrolling
- The Folder View Style setting in Settings > Appearance > Folders now describes the grid accurately as a scrollable icon grid
- Much lower memory and CPU use
- Idle memory dropped from roughly 330-420MB to about 220MB and stays flat instead of growing over long sessions (dependent on window image quality for dock previews)
- Sharper icons on non-Retina displays
- App icons, custom icons, widget icons, Now Playing, Trash, and File Tray icons stay crisp at rest and while magnified on 1x external monitors
- Livelier launch, window, and quit animations
- Icons start bouncing the instant you click to launch, and settle after 10 seconds if a launch stalls
- Apps opening a new window do a quick corner wiggle instead of a full bounce
- Quitting apps shrink into the dock edge, and pinned apps play a quick squash to acknowledge the quit
- More reliable weather widget
- Failed fetches retry automatically and fall back to the last cached forecast when the network is down
- The panel now explains failures, like "Location access denied", instead of loading forever
- Better folder panel header
- The folder's name shows at the top; click it to open the folder in Finder
- Windows adjust the moment you change overlap settings
- Turning on dock overlap avoidance or its flush option repositions all open windows immediately
- Minimized window tiles show their app
- A small corner badge on the thumbnail tells you which app each minimized window came from
- Choose how often notification badges refresh
- New Badge Refresh Interval slider in Settings > Dock, from 1 to 30 seconds (default 5)
- Clock widget uses less CPU
- It updates once a minute unless the analog second hand is showing
- Updated translations across supported languages
π Bug Fixes
- Dock no longer stays magnified after switching Spaces
- Auto-hiding dock can no longer get stuck on screen
- Windows no longer get stuck behind the dock
- Rapid maximize or fullscreen cycles previously left windows permanently overlapped; they're now re-checked and fixed
- Dock stays hidden next to fullscreen apps on other monitors
- With hide-in-fullscreen on, a display running a fullscreen app keeps its dock hidden even while you work elsewhere
- Window switcher closes when you click outside it
- Clicking icons to minimize or restore windows is reliable again
- Including under Stage Manager, and rapid repeated clicks no longer queue conflicting actions
- Minimized windows of grouped apps no longer create duplicate tiles
- Pinned shortcuts made by wrapper tools show their running indicator
- They no longer appear stopped while a duplicate icon shows in the running apps section
- App icons no longer blink for a frame when a launching app finishes starting
- Folder panels stay open while you drag a file out
- Calendar widget dates display fully in every language
- Japanese and similar languages no longer truncate day numbers in the month grid
- Trash icon no longer disappears when widgets are turned off
- It's controlled only by its own Show Trash setting
- Dock side margins are even again
- An invisible gap before the first icon made one side look wider in some layouts
- Dock icons no longer over-compress when the compact settings gear is shown
- Drop-target highlight clears properly when you release a drag
- Settings backup exports no longer get a doubled file extension
- Related-setting links in Settings respond to clicks anywhere on the row
Version 0.0.143 (2026-07-04)
π Bug Fixes
- Files dropped on dock widgets land on the widget you aimed at rather than adding to dock profile
- Calendar should request access if not previously granted for calendar widgets
Version 0.0.142 (2026-07-03)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother dock auto-hide
- - Reduced lag on reveal animation
- Icon magnification settling improvement
- Blacklist applications from showing in the running apps section
- - Edit the list in Settings > Dock
- Calendar widgets tell you when access is off
- The Calendar and Daily Agenda widgets show a "No calendar access" notice instead of looking like an empty day
- Click the warning in a widget's panel to jump to the Calendars privacy pane in System Settings
- Calendars now also appears in the Settings > Setup permissions overview
- Custom widgets can use their full width
- Widgets you add yourself (not from the marketplace) can now resize up to triple-wide if they support it
- Updated translations
- More of the app appears in your Mac's language
π Bug Fixes
- Glance previews during β-Tab are far more reliable
- Taskbar always spans the full screen width
- No more stray icon magnification at the dock's ends
- Hovering over a pinned widget or empty space at either end no longer makes nearby icons magnify
- Window previews no longer open over a hidden dock
- If the dock auto-hides while a hover preview is pending, the preview is cancelled instead of appearing over an empty screen edge
- Pop-ups position correctly at screen corners in taskbar mode
- Tooltips near the corners are no longer pulled inward early
- Panels like the profile button's drawer open directly above their icon instead of shifted to one side
- Panels from pinned widgets float at the right height
- Pop-ups such as Now Playing no longer sit flush against the bar
- Calendar events appear without relaunching
- Granting calendar access in System Settings after the app has asked now takes effect on the next refresh
Version 0.0.141 (2026-07-02)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother name tooltips across the dock
- More reliable Cmd+Tab switcher and window tracking
- Fixes rare crashes when apps launch or quit in quick succession
π Bug Fixes
- App no longer quits immediately at launch on recent macOS versions
- Calendar and Daily Agenda widgets no longer crash when first shown
- macOS now asks for Calendar access the first time a calendar widget appears
- Deleting a calendar or changing calendar accounts no longer crashes the app; removed events simply disappear on the next refresh
- Dragging a file over the dock no longer crashes if the dock updates mid-drag
- Cancelled file drags no longer leave the dock stuck
- Magnification resumes and the highlighted drop target un-dims as soon as the drag ends
- Rearranging pinned icons during a dock update no longer crashes
- Applies when a profile switch or item removal happens while you're dragging
- Letting go of a dragged Cmd+Tab window preview no longer crashes for apps without open windows
- No more crashes when a display connects, disconnects, or the Mac wakes during Cmd+Tab or dock use
- Tooltips no longer flicker when the hovered app gains or loses focus
- The tooltip no longer drops downward when swapping between the now-playing tooltip and an app name, or while fading out as you leave the dock
Version 0.0.140 (2026-07-02)
β¨ New Features
- See live window previews in the macOS β-Tab switcher
- Turn on Glance in Settings > Glance (off by default); β-Tab itself behaves exactly as before, and it's separate from the Alt-Tab Window Switcher
- While holding β, press A to step through the highlighted app's windows (Shift+A goes backwards), then release β to open the one you picked
- Press Q, M, or F to close, minimize, or full-screen the selected window; all keys are changeable in Settings > Shortcuts
- Turn on "Ignore Apps With One Window" to skip previews for single-window apps
- Glance has its own appearance settings β window titles, control buttons, compact list, app header β with a live preview, independent from dock previews and the switcher
- The Glance page keeps the main toggle, its options, and the live preview together at the top so you see changes immediately
- Widget stacks can now be three icons wide
- Pick the new Triple size when editing a stack in Settings
- Widgets show richer layouts at this size: the Clock adds a spelled-out date, Battery shows percentage and time remaining, Weather adds the current condition, Trash gains an Empty button and status, the File Tray shows file thumbnails and a count, and AirDrop and Show Desktop gain hint lines
- All built-in widgets support it; marketplace widgets must declare support
- If you ever go back to an older app version, your stacks are kept and shown at the Double size instead of being lost
- New Daily Agenda widget lists today's events
- At its smallest size, shows how many events you have left (a checkmark when you're done); larger sizes list upcoming events with each calendar's color
- An event happening right now gets an accent "Now" label, and finished events dim
- Long-press for a Today digest panel; click to open the Calendar app
- Minimized windows from menu bar apps appear in the dock
- Windows from apps without a dock icon show as small thumbnails after your running apps; click one to bring it back
- On by default in Settings > Dock; "Include Apps Already in the Dock" extends this to every app (off by default)
- - This can be used to emulate the native dock, where it shows all minimized windows
- Pin your favorite menu commands for each app
- Click the pin icon next to any command in the Browse Commands panel, search results, or recents
- Pinned commands replace the Recent Commands list in that app's dock panel
- A pinned command that's currently grayed out in the app can still be unpinned
- Move an app's windows between desktops from the dock
- Right-click an app icon and choose "Bring All Windows Here" to gather every window onto the screen and desktop you're on
- "Move Windows to Desktop" sends them to any desktop, picked from a list numbered like Mission Control (shown when you have more than one desktop)
- Choose which file manager opens folders and the Trash
- Settings > Interactions > File Manager: System Default, Finder, or any app you pick, like ForkLift or Bloom
- Menu labels follow your choice β for example "Show in ForkLift" instead of "Show in Finder"
- Your frontmost app is marked with an accent bar
- With the Dot indicator style, the active app's dots become a longer accent-colored bar so you can spot it anywhere on the dock
- Toggle "Active App Handle" in Settings > Appearance > Indicators (on by default)
- Drag web links into the File Tray and AirDrop
- Links dragged from your browser are kept with a web icon; click to open, right-click for Open Link and Copy Link
- Dropping a link on an AirDrop zone sends it to the chosen device, and dragging an image from a web page saves the image itself
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Redesigned widget stack editor
- Pick a size from three proportional cards; widgets that don't fit a size show a "Hidden at this size" badge with an explanation, and you're warned if the stack wouldn't appear on the dock at all
- Reorder widgets with the up and down arrows on each row
- Add Widget opens a compact, searchable picker, and a bottom bar holds Delete Stack and a Done button you can trigger with Return
- New docks start with Now Playing and Weather widgets
- Importing your macOS Dock now keeps the widgets you've added instead of wiping them
- The starter widgets can be moved or removed like any dock item
- Hide preview backgrounds and title pills
- Settings > Previews > "Show Background" removes the panel behind window previews and the Alt-Tab switcher, leaving just the thumbnails
- "Pill Style" toggles the frosted pill behind window titles, separately for dock previews and the switcher
- The "Dock Only" background setting is now named "Separate Panel Style" (same behavior, clearer wording)
- Titles and buttons shown outside the preview now line up flush with the thumbnail's edges
- Adjustable window control button size on previews
- A "Button Size" slider (12β32pt) in each Window Controls section, separately for dock previews, the Alt-Tab switcher, and Glance
- The right-click app panel's window rows follow the dock preview size
- Dock tooltips show the full title
- The tooltip grows to fit the whole app or window name instead of scrolling it back and forth
- The media tooltip (song and artist) also sizes to its content
- Right-click menus hold still while you use them
- Submenus like Browse Commands open beside the menu instead of sliding everything sideways
- Panels size themselves to their content, so long window titles and file names get more room
- Dock icons, widgets, and text stay crisp while magnified
- Alt-Tab switcher feels snappier
- Appears and disappears instantly, and its background stays put when the list refreshes
- Keep the window switcher selection from following your mouse
- Turn off "Enable Mouse Hover Selection" in Settings > Window Switcher > Behavior (on by default) so the pointer can't steal the highlight while you navigate with the keyboard; clicking a preview still activates it
- Calendar panel follows your region settings
- Weeks start on Monday or Sunday based on your macOS Language & Region settings, and times use your preferred format
- The selected day is highlighted in your dock's accent color
- Now Playing widget refinements
- Album artwork now matches the size of neighboring app icons, and fills its tile when nothing is playing
- New "Click Always Plays/Pauses" option (off by default) makes every click toggle playback β useful when a music player isn't detected; hover and long-press still open the media shortcut list
- Clock widget can hide its analog face
- Turn off "Analog Clock Face" in the widget's options (on by default)
- Wider sizes then show a larger digital time, with the date if enabled
- Choose which Quick Actions appear in Control Center
- Turn off "Show in Control Center" on an action to keep it only on the dock's Quick Actions widget
- Menu command rows can hide extra detail
- "Show Menu Names" and "Show Keyboard Shortcuts" toggles in Settings > Interactions (both on by default)
- Frees space for commands with long names
- Middle-click to quit is more thorough
- Quits every window of apps that run a separate process per document, so nothing lingers in the background
- Now also works on app icons inside a group's fan-out
- Tidier Dock settings
- Less-used running-app options are grouped under an expandable "Running App Options" section
- The placement item is now named "Running Apps & Minimized Windows"
- Dialogs match your chosen app icon
- Alerts show your alternate DockDoor Pro icon if you've picked one
- The "Open N Apps?" confirmation for app groups uses the standard dialog style attached to the right window
- Control Panel widget buttons fit the slot's shape, staying evenly sized in wide, tall, or square slots
- Windows moved to your current desktop by automation now come to the front
- New Legal link in Settings > About opens the privacy and terms page
- Updated community translations
π Bug Fixes
- Dragging a file onto an app icon opens it again
- The icon under your drag dims to show it's the target; fixes a regression where drops did nothing
- Adding items to the dock by dragging works again
- While editing a dock profile, an insertion preview shows where the item will land, and the dock no longer flickers during the drag
- Widgets magnify correctly
- Icons keep proper spacing around wide widgets instead of bunching up, and gaps no longer pulse as your cursor sweeps across one
- Triple-width widgets get their full room, widget text stays sharp while enlarged, and widgets lean more clearly toward your cursor
- A wide widget at the end of the dock no longer has its edge visually sheared off while tilting
- Resizing a widget stack updates the dock immediately
- Neighboring icons slide smoothly to make room instead of the old size lingering and clipping the widget
- Dock no longer stutters when icons appear or disappear
- Neighbors no longer jump or leave a phantom gap when a lone window tile leaves during magnification
- The press-down squish when you click an icon plays smoothly again
- No more duplicate icons for multi-window apps
- Apps that open a separate process per document (like Bambu Studio) no longer appear twice
- Their hover previews stay up to date, and the Launch Time sort order is now stable
- Newly launched apps appear in the dock as soon as their first window opens
- Window titles in compact previews no longer get cut off
- Hidden window buttons no longer reserve space next to the title, and the compact Alt-Tab list fits its contents instead of a fixed height
- Wide tooltips near the ends of the dock stay fully on screen
- Calendar widget no longer squeezes its text into "β¦" at the Double size
- Its text also stays crisp and sharp at small dock icon sizes
- The "move window to space" AppleScript command works now
Version 0.0.139 (2026-06-25)
β¨ New Features
- Snap resized windows flush to the dock
- Turn on Settings > General > Position & Display > "Flush to Dock" to remove the gap windows normally keep from the dock
- Clicking a dock icon now closes its window preview
- On by default; click an app's dock icon to dismiss its open window preview
- Turn off Settings > Dock Previews > Behavior > "Close Preview on Icon Click" to keep previews up and click through windows
π Bug Fixes
- Dock icons update instantly when you change appearance
- Switching Light/Dark mode or the macOS icon style (Default, Dark, Tinted, Clear) refreshes icons right away instead of looking stale until relaunch
- App and system icons show correct colors
- Fixes washed-out or mismatched icon coloring
Version 0.0.138 (2026-06-23)
β¨ New Features
- Pick your app icon: classic or Alpha
- Defaults to the current DockDoor Pro icon; also findable in Settings search
- Customize each Quick Action button's icon
- Set a per-button icon color and size with a live preview in the slot editor
- Set panel text color and size app-wide
- New Panel Text Color and Panel Text Size controls under Settings > Appearance
- Helps readability in menus, popovers, and hover panels; defaults to system color and size
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smooth scale-and-fade when the dock appears
- Easier-to-read shelf sections
- Hide the card backgrounds behind shelf sections for a cleaner look
- New Section Backgrounds toggle under Settings > Shelf (on by default; also in Settings search)
- Turn off to remove the resting backgrounds behind File Tray, folders, AirDrop, and Open Apps; drag highlights still appear when you move items
- Choose where auto-hide reveals the dock
- New "Reveal Only at Dock Area" toggle under Settings > General > Auto-Hide
- On by default; turn off to reveal from anywhere along that screen edge
- More reliable Trash opening from the dock
- Opens Trash directly in Finder, with fallbacks if that's unavailable
- The update-available dot no longer pulses
- It now sits still on the profile button
- Cleaner Settings search results
- Updated and expanded interface translations
π Bug Fixes
- Quick dock taps always count now
- Taps are no longer dropped after scrolling or magnification
- A fast wobble-and-release still counts as a tap, not a drag
- Hovering a dock icon works reliably
- Hover no longer stops responding after certain interactions
- Smoother magnification
- The dock edge no longer jumps when the dock resizes mid-animation
- Apps opened through wrapper or shortcut apps group correctly (support for Parall)
- They're attributed to the right app, matching the native Dock
- Add duplicate apps independently in the app picker
- When two apps share an identifier, checking one no longer checks the other
Version 0.0.137 (2026-06-22)
β¨ New Features
- Jump straight to a grouped app while it's running
- A running app that lives inside a group can also appear as its own icon in the running-apps area, so you can click it once instead of opening the group first
- Turn on under Settings > Dock > Content: "Show Grouped Apps When Running" (off by default)
π§ Improvements & Stability
π Bug Fixes
- Smoother dock magnification
- Icons no longer jitter or wobble as you sweep the pointer, including near the ends of the dock and around widgets
- Quickly switching tracks or short gaps no longer make the media controls flicker or briefly disappear
- Fixed a crash when the dock repositioned
- The dock no longer crashes while adjusting its position to avoid overlapping
Version 0.0.136 (2026-06-19)
β¨ New Features
- Keep icons at their ideal size
- Turn on Settings > Appearance > Size > "Keep icons at ideal size" (default off)
- When too many icons to fit, the dock scrolls instead of shrinking
- Set custom Trash icons in the dock
- Settings > Widgets > Widget Stacks > Trash, with separate empty and full icons
- Open Apps shelf items now behave like dock icons
- Tap to focus, right-click for actions, long-press for window previews
- Window previews follow your existing Window Previews setting
- Line them up leading, center, or trailing via Settings > File Tray > Open Apps > Alignment (default Leading)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Window previews appear and respond faster
- Captures are downsampled to thumbnail size, using less memory
- Set how long thumbnails stay cached in Settings > Previews > Shared > Performance (default 30s)
- Cache can now go from 0 to 120 seconds; 0 always shows the most current view
- Cloning your Mac's Dock brings over more
- Settings > Setup > "Clone your native Dock" now also copies pinned folders, files, and web shortcuts
- Per-display setups are more reliable across monitor changes
- Fixed folder hover previews
- Folder controls regrouped under Settings > Appearance > Folders, led by Folder View Style (List or Grid)
π Bug Fixes
- An auto-hiding dock hides promptly after your cursor leaves it, no more lingering
- Folder fan-out previews no longer flicker; a preview stays up until you hover another item, drag, right-click, navigate the folder, or click Close
- Magnification no longer stays stuck on after moving onto a preview or right-click menu
- Folder fan-out panels now follow the dock correctly while it's magnified
- Icons update right away when you switch light/dark mode or change a custom icon
- In the window switcher, hovering an item no longer yanks the list under your cursor
- Windows set to avoid the dock no longer leave an extra gap when icons shrink to fit
- The update-available dot now sits steadily on the profile button instead of sliding across the dock
- The Widget Stacks list in settings no longer overlaps the controls below it
Version 0.0.135 (2026-06-18)
β¨ New Features
- Place widget stacks anywhere in the dock
- Clock, battery, Trash, Now Playing, and other stacks are no longer locked to the dock ends
- Each profile keeps its own arrangement; build a stack in Settings > Widgets and add it to any profile
- Existing edge widgets migrate into the dock automatically on first update
- Redesigned Settings with a guided Setup page
- First-run setup now lives inside the Settings window and opens automatically on first launch
- Appearance options use visual choice cards that preview each option
- Clone Native Dock
- New Setup step copies apps from your macOS Dock into the active profile
- Confirms before replacing pinned items
- File Tray is now a multi-page shelf with pinned folders
- Scroll the page indicator to flip between File Tray and Open Apps; reopens on the last page used
- Pin up to 3 folders as labeled sections that update live
- Quick Look thumbnails for tray files (toggle with Show Thumbnails)
- Per-folder file count (0β4), optional size cap, and sort by date, name, size, or kind
- Enable or disable the dock per display, in Settings > Dock
- Pin dock items to the leading or trailing edge
- Drag a widget past the centered icons in taskbar mode, or use the per-item Edge picker (Leading / Center / Trailing)
- Choose what dragging a file onto the dock does
- Add to Dock (default), Open File Tray, or Open With App, in Settings > Dock
- Expanded AppleScript support
- Open the window switcher, show or hide an app's preview, and manage windows (focus, minimize, close, maximize, center, snap, resize, reposition, move to another Space)
- List running apps and open windows as JSON, including preview images
osascript -e 'tell application "DockDoor Pro" to get help'
- Position the running-apps block anywhere in the dock, and sort running apps by launch time or alphabetically
- Show or hide the Trash at the end of the dock (Show Trash, on by default)
- More profile switcher options
- Change the profile button style, make it compact, or show/hide the active-profile indicator
- Optional shelf page indicator under the profile button to switch File Tray / Open Apps
- Permissions Overview in Setup with a live granted badge; tap a row to jump to the matching System Settings pane
- Optional dividers around edge widgets, shown only when that edge holds widgets
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Rearrange the dock without entering an edit mode
- Press and drag any icon to move it; a quick click still launches the app
- The old Edit Dock mode and Option+E shortcut are gone
- A single indicator shows where an item will land; new items drop into the center
- Dock fits itself to your screen and contents
- Icons and widgets shrink to stay legible on a narrow or crowded dock
- Dock now sits flush against the screen edge by default (adjust with the screen-margin setting)
- Dock magnification and the card-style running-app indicator are now on by default
- Smoother, more even magnification
- Consistent spacing across any mix of icons and widgets
- Hovering a non-magnifying widget pauses magnification instead of scaling oddly
- Fast sweeps no longer trigger a cascade of tooltips; hover commits when you settle
- Slimmer Previews settings
- Common options up front, fine-tuning behind an advanced section (search auto-expands it)
- Compact Threshold slider (0β10 windows) controls when previews collapse to a list
- Previews fall back to compact list mode when Screen Recording is off, with a prompt to grant it
- Inline profile editing
- Edit pinned items directly in the profile panel, which now shows the icon, name, Rename, and switcher toggle
- Remove an app from a group via right-click > Remove from Group (the hover trash can is gone)
- AirDrop sits next to the File Tray and takes up less room
- Tidier layouts in every language; updated and expanded translations
π Bug Fixes
- Only one copy of DockDoor runs at a time, preventing duplicate docks from stale copies
- Clicks on magnified icons land where you see them, including the bulge above the dock and Now Playing buttons
- Quitting an app from the dock no longer makes the dock edge snap, stick, or freeze mid-collapse
- File Tray reliability
- Clicks on tray files work and respect the chosen tap action
- Left/right-positioned trays render correctly
- Pinned folders preload instead of rebuilding mid-animation
- Removing a file prompts to Move to Trash or Remove from Tray
- Drag files back out of the tray and pinned folders reliably; dropping a file into its own folder no longer creates a numbered duplicate
- Scrolling a widget stack reliably pages through its widgets; single-widget stacks pass the scroll through to open the shelf
- Switching dock profiles via AppleScript shows the correct profile when displays use different profiles
Videos covering the new behavior:
Version 0.0.134 (2026-06-11)
β¨ New Features
- App group members now open full child panels on right click
- Group member panels keep the same app actions and notification behavior as regular dock icons
- Nested panels stay anchored instead of pushing the parent group out of place
- Liquid Glass opacity control
- Replaces the glass flavor picker with a Clearer to More Opaque slider
- Shows the resolved glass style when a saved option maps to the nearest available system variant
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Grouped app icons now aggregate notification badges from their member apps
- Fix crash on macOS 27
- Vertical docks can use Avoid Dock Overlap again
- Magnification now clears paused wave/bounce state more reliably
- App group editing is smoother when dragging adjacent icons into a group
- Updated translations from Crowdin
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed Finder drops not landing in the dock edit icons row
- Fixed dock tooltip alignment and edge positioning during magnification
- Fixed app group child panels being pushed away by retaining their anchor frame
- Fixed app icons being pushed after dock layout changes
- Fixed adjacent dock icons being dragged into groups incorrectly
- Fixed Liquid Glass fallback edge cases and saved flavor remapping
- Fixed quit-after-last-window-closed checks so unsupported apps are skipped more reliably
Version 0.0.133 (2026-06-05)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Richer, interactive app group panels
- Can now drag apps into groups while editing
- Notification badges show without a number for notifications that are single dots
- Searchable app picker in settings, improved
- Steadier icons during dock editing (no more stale magnification registration)
π Bug Fixes
- CPU and RAM stats load with previews (no more delay)
- Panel background no longer disappears
- Fixed settings issues
- App picker and glass panels restored
- Reorderable lists drag correctly
- Settings and onboarding behave properly
- Refined / updated onboarding
- Fixed readability on translucent settings window
Version 0.0.132 (2026-06-04)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Adjustable border around panels and popovers
- Option to disable scroll-to-open file tray
- Refined dock outline color
π Bug Fixes
- Panel backgrounds no longer go invisible
- Glass backgrounds render more reliably
Version 0.0.131 (2026-06-02)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Clear warning when a custom icon file is missing
- Media controls show the correct app icon
- More reliable icons for media source apps
π Bug Fixes
- Replaced custom icons update immediately
- Browser-profile apps now show the right icon
- Correct names for profile-launched apps
- Leftover custom icon files cleaned up after deletion
- Custom icons no longer wrongly reapplied to apps
Version 0.0.130 (2026-06-02)
β¨ New Features
- Current App Alt-Tab shortcut
- Add a separate keybind that opens Alt-Tab for the active app only
- Option to keep running apps visible even when they have no windows
- Dock previews can show a full-size window on hover
- Configurable hover action and delay
- Option to center the mouse after focusing a window from previews or Alt-Tab
- Now Playing widget can show media source shortcuts when nothing is playing
- Add, change, or remove up to three source apps
- Custom empty and full icons for the Trash widget
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Better browser profile app support and dock icon customization
- Better mouse wheel support for vertical docks
- Window switcher hover and scrolling improvements
- Mouse hover selection no longer hijacks keyboard navigation until the pointer actually moves
- Switcher scrolling is cleaner and faster
- Do Nothing option for clicking the active app
- Right-click an open dock panel again to dismiss it
- Right-click custom Control Center drawer apps to remove them
- Auto-hide trigger strip is now much smaller and only spans the dock
- Updated translations
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed previews dismissing incorrectly with auto-hide
- Fixed Control Center drawer clickability and action icon defaults
- Fixed window closure refresh issues in Alt-Tab
- Fixed dock overlap edge cases
Version 0.0.129 (2026-05-31)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Apps can stay in dock and groups (can have the same app in groups or the dock in the same profile)
- Hide widget stack page indicator (new NONE option)
- Lock action now shows a lock icon in control panel drawer
π Bug Fixes
- App group custom icons match dock sizing
Version 0.0.128 (2026-05-31)
Hotfix v128
- Sync translations
- Fix critical crash removing edited widgets
Version 0.0.127 (2026-05-30)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Button to clear all new-setting badges at once
- Redesigned keyboard shortcut settings
- Shortcuts grouped by purpose
- Optional divider before widget stacks
π Bug Fixes
- Process stats appear in window previews
Version 0.0.126 (2026-05-29)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Completely overhauled the Alt-Tab and window preview tab
- Ported all appearance and configuration options from DockDoor Free
- Magnification animation is buttery smooth
- Added translations and the translation portal
- Translation portal available in support tab
- Added adjustable dimming for minimized icons
- Added confirmation before opening many apps from an app group
- Alt-tab option so it can stay open after an app quits
- Sharper glass dock background, no more weird lines in the liquid glass panel
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed app group icons rendering at the wrong size
- Fixed removing apps from groups while editing profiles
- Fixed file tray opening from its widget button
- Fixed preview buttons targeting closed windows
- And lots of other misc. bug fixes that don't warrant a changelog entry.
Enjoy!
Version 0.0.125 (2026-05-27)
This version is a hotfix-patch for users who experienced icons being unclickable with 'drag files to apps' and magnification enabled.
Version 0.0.124 (2026-05-27)
β¨ New Features
- Keybind controls for opening the control panel drawer
- Keybind controls for triggering a specific dock profile instantly
- AppleScript support
- `osascript -e 'tell application "DockDoor Pro" to switch profile "Default"'`
- `osascript -e 'tell application "DockDoor Pro" to get help'`
- Option to enable location for weather during onboarding
- Option to make the dock a single solid color
- Option to change the scroll bar design for widget stacks
- Widgets can now render with a dot underneath to match icons
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Liquid glass is more liquid now
- Magnification stays stable while scrolling the dock
- Badges and labels scale crisply with magnification
- Font sizing options for notification text and pill labels
- Fixed high CPU when scrolling through an icons row with lots of icons magnified at once
- Preview navigator now skips to the next available app window when controls are used to quit all actively focused windows for an app
- Keyboard navigation handles closed apps gracefully
π Bug Fixes
- Edit mode bug fixes
- Fixed right-click preview reliability
- App group icons display a properly aligned grid
- Fixed app group icon clipping
- Notification badges fit numbers without clipping
Version 0.0.123 (2026-05-24)
β¨ New Features
- Group multiple apps into one dock icon
- Expand a group to see and launch members
- Create groups from multi-select bulk actions (hold cmd and click some icons in the dock then right click)
- Ungroup or remove members anytime
π§ Improvements & Stability
- App icons now tint cards with their own colors (default ON - can be disabled)
- Refined liquid glass dock and panel backgrounds
π Bug Fixes
- Smoother magnification, less lag
- Right-click on dock icons more reliable
- No more stuttering when scrolling profiles
- Cleaner dock edge feathering
- Missing onboarding text now appears
Version 0.0.122 (2026-05-21)
β¨ New Features
- Back up and restore all settings
- Export every preference and profile to a file
- Import on another Mac to migrate setup
- Warns if backup file came from a different version
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Simplified dock edit mode activation - NO LONGER USES DOUBLE TAP OPTION
- Edit mode now defaults to Option + E (can be changed)
- Better hover tooltips across system controls
- Control panel actions show descriptive tooltips
- Refreshed quit app action icon
Version 0.0.121 (2026-05-19)
New Features
- Preview Navigator replaces separate preview shortcuts
- Default shortcut is now Option-W, and Option-Z / Option-X were removed
- Preview actions can now use keyboard shortcuts
- Configure up to three actions: Close, Minimize, and Fullscreen
- Window order can now be reversed
- Reverse dock previews or Alt Tab Window Switcher order
- New sorting options available
- Sort by Recently Used, App Name, or Window Title
Improvements & Stability
- Alt Tab Window Switcher controls were refined
- Key-release and confirmation modes behave consistently
- Window preview panels update more reliably
- Closing, quitting, and empty panels now clean up correctly
- Right-click app menus use live window previews
- Window lists, actions, and browser profile icons stay current
- Panel keyboard handling is more reliable
- Preview, app action, and child panel shortcuts behave better
- Display targeting was improved
- Dock placement and Avoid Dock Overlap use the correct screen
- Dock scroll fades were improved
- Edge fades update smoothly and match dock orientation
Bug Fixes
- Fixed clock animation artifacts
- Fixed stale previews after closing windows
- Fixed preview cleanup after quit actions
- Fixed keyboard conflicts inside preview panels
- Fixed child panel shortcut handling
- Fixed display targeting edge cases
Version 0.0.120 (2026-05-17)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Added system for showing "New" badges on recently added settings
- Going forward after this update, new setting will show a red dot indicating they are new
- During this first update, no settings options will show the "New" badge. Only following updates will show the new badge.
- Separate toggle for magnifying dock controls
- You can now configure widgets or the dock control buttons to magnify separately
- Refined Done button in edit mode
- Cleaner dimming effect during edit mode
- Per-screen dock position support
- You can now pin one dock to left/right while having your main display with the dock on the bottom
π Bug Fixes
- File tray no longer expands during drag to trash
- Drag-to-app works reliably outside edit mode
- Taskbar accepts drops across its full width
- No more stutter when apps launch or quit
- More reliable window overlap detection
Version 0.0.119 (2026-05-14)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Customizable dock edit mode activation - enhanced customization pass
- Choose double-tap, shortcut, or off
- Pick any modifier for double-tap entry
- Assign a keyboard shortcut to toggle edit mode
- Reset keyboard shortcuts to default button restored
- Override status badge on changed shortcuts when assigning a different keybind than pre-configured
π Bug Fixes
- Deleting the confirm key no longer breaks cycling
- Feather fade renders correctly beside dock widgets
- Shortcut handlers no longer linger after teardown
- Fixes window preview panel being cut off on hover
Version 0.0.118 (2026-05-14)
β¨ New Features
- **Edit your dock directly from the dock**
- Double-tap **Option** to enter dock edit mode.
- If you changed the Keyboard Initializer Key, double-tap that key instead.
- Drag apps, folders, files, URLs, or currently running apps onto the dock to pin them to the active profile.
- Long-press a pinned dock item while edit mode is active, then drag it to reorder.
- Click the checkmark on the dock when finished, or double click option again.
- Edits apply to the profile currently assigned to that screen.
- **Added Alt Tab Window Switcher**
- **Default: Off**
- Turn it on in **Settings > Previews > Alt Tab Window Switcher**.
- Use **Option + Tab** to cycle through windows across all apps.
- If you changed the Keyboard Initializer Key, use that key + Tab instead.
- Keep holding Option and press Tab again to move forward.
- Hold Shift while pressing Tab to move backward.
- Use Left/Right arrow keys while the switcher is active to change selection.
- Release Option to activate the selected window when using On Key Release mode.
- Press Return to activate the selected window when using confirmation mode.
- Press Escape to cancel.
- Choose whether previews appear immediately or only after a short hold.
- Choose switcher order: Recently Used, App Name, or Window Title.
- **Added a shared Keyboard Initializer Key**
- Configure it in **Settings > Interactions > Keyboard Shortcuts**.
- **Default: Option**
- Choose Option, Control, Command, or Shift.
- The initializer key controls dock edit mode, letter navigation, dock shortcuts, and the new Alt Tab Window Switcher.
- Individual shortcuts can still use their own modifier; those rows are marked **Overridden**.
- **Widgets and fixed dock controls can now magnify with the dock**
- Configure in **Settings > Appearance > Widget Magnification**.
- Choose All Styles, Floating Only, or Taskbar Only.
- Applies to widget stacks, profile controls, settings/control buttons, and other fixed dock sections.
- Onboarding now includes controls for magnification style, size, range, widget magnification, and whether panels keep magnification active.
- **Window preview controls now keep the order you choose**
- Configure in **Settings > Previews > Preview Appearance > Choose Actions**.
- Actions appear in the order you enable them.
- Still limited to five visible controls.
- The picker now shows when you have reached the limit.
- **Added support shortcuts in onboarding and settings**
- About now includes a Support section with the support email.
- The support email helper includes your license key in the draft when available.
- Onboarding now includes a support page explaining what to include when asking for help.
π§ Improvements & Stability
- **Dock magnification was heavily reworked**
- Smoother behavior at the first and last dock icons.
- Better edge masking so magnified icons do not clip awkwardly.
- Natural shadows under magnified dock items.
- Less stutter when moving between regular icons, widgets, and fixed dock controls.
- Better behavior while scrolling dock pages or opening panels.
- **Widget stacks feel more like dock items now**
- Widget cards can magnify instead of staying visually detached from the icon row.
- Widget page indicators no longer push the card around when they appear.
- Page indicators fit inside the rounded dock container.
- Widget tooltips now respect magnification state.
- Widget panels can keep the dock's magnified shape while open when that setting is enabled.
- **Weather and Clock widgets should feel faster and use less memory**
- Weather panels can show cached data immediately while refreshing.
- Weather location lookups are cached to avoid repeated geocoding.
- Weather scene animations use less memory when conditions change.
- Clock and Weather now share the same lower-overhead animation renderer.
- **Folder fan stacks have a cleaner sort control**
- Click the sort button to open Sort By options.
- Pick Date Modified, Name, Size, or Kind.
- Use the direction button to cycle Descending, Ascending, or Off.
- Turning sorting off no longer forgets the sort type you chose.
- **Quick Actions moved to Control Center settings**
- Configure Quick Actions in **Settings > Control Center**.
- To show Quick Actions on the dock, add the Quick Actions widget to a widget stack.
- Quit and Restart actions now have a Confirm Before Running option.
- **Onboarding was reorganized around actual setup steps**
- Keybinds page explains the initializer key and shortcut groups.
- Panels page controls Window Previews and the Alt Tab Window Switcher.
- Appearance page includes the new magnification controls.
- Privacy copy now explains license checks, updates, WeatherKit, and lyrics lookup network use.
- **Settings search was updated for the new settings**
- Dock edit mode.
- Alt Tab Window Switcher.
- Preview timing and switcher order.
- Keyboard initializer key.
- Widget magnification.
- Quick Actions confirmation.
- Support.
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed dragged window previews sometimes doing nothing after drop.
- Dropping a window preview now repositions and raises the window even when it is already on the current Space.
- Fixed dock magnification clipping at dock edges.
- Fixed magnification stutter caused by unnecessary hover and widget updates.
- Fixed widgets and fixed dock controls not matching dock magnification behavior in some dock styles.
- Fixed keyboard shortcut conflicts between panel shortcuts, dock navigation, letter navigation, and the new window switcher.
- Fixed stale edit-mode drop previews when leaving edit mode, opening panels, or hiding the dock.
- Fixed repeated Weather location lookups and reverse-geocode retry churn.
Version 0.0.117 (2026-05-09)
π Bug Fixes
- Hotfix for dynamic window sizing
- Controls for window sizing reworked
Version 0.0.116 (2026-05-09)
New Features
- Added panel light/dark override
- Added more extensive customizable preview window controls
- Focus, close, minimize, fullscreen, tile
- Quit, force quit, bring forward, bring window to current desktop space
- Added draggable window preview snapshots
- Have a Finder window in another desktop space?
- Open the window preview panel, drag and drop the preview to the desired area. The window will automatically move into the desired desktop space.
Improvements & Stability
- Made preview grids horizontally scrollable when too wide to fit on screen
- Improved page scroll bar sizing
- Accounted for rounded dock corners
- Renamed Page Scroll Bar setting
- Improved focused-window highlighting
- Restored focused-icon magnification wave
- Added keyboard input router groundwork, better management of keybind monitors
- Ignore unchanged screen-layout notifications (less re-initializing)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed modal dialog focus handling
- Fixed save/open panel focus
- Fixed stale navigation registrations when using OPT+Z/OPT+X
- Cleaned up canceled preview drags
- Fixed multi-window focus ordering
Version 0.0.115 (2026-05-07)
New Features
- Added a manual keyboard shortcut to hide or show DockDoor Pro across all screens (OPT + H)
- Added custom icon scaling so custom app/folder icons can be resized inside their dock slot
- Added an option to keep dock magnification active while panels are open
- Added a βNoneβ running-app indicator style to hide running indicators entirely and center icons
- Added configurable maximum length for profile and widget page indicators
- Scrollable stack redesigned
Improvements & Stability
- Improved dock icon presentation consistency across apps, pinned items, drawers, fan stacks, file cells, and widgets
- Reduced unnecessary DockIcon body re-evaluations for better dock performance
- Improved magnification behavior around panels, hover state, and wave bounce effects
- Refined profile/widget page indicators and updated related settings/onboarding/search copy
- Restored local widget adding and improved marketplace widget refresh/unload handling
- Widgets now support text fields (restored for clipboard widget)
- Added loaded/not-loaded status for installed widgets
Bug Fixes
- Fixed panels re-presenting when the requested panel is already visible
- Fixed panel size snapping when replacing or animating between panels
- Fixed stale panel animations affecting newly shown panels
- Fixed panel positioning behavior while magnification is active
- Fixed custom icon scale cleanup when icons are reset or changed
Version 0.0.114 (2026-05-04)
β¨ New Features
- Each widget now gets its own settings, no longer global per widget-type
- As part of this migration, all existing widget settings have been reset. Users will need to reconfigure their widgets one time; going forward, settings will persist per-widget.
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Choose which apps quit on last window (ability to limit to specific apps)
- Smoother window preview interaction
π Bug Fixes
- Instant hover works with open panels
- Dock keyboard navigation fixed in cases where local keybind monitor failed
Version 0.0.113 (2026-05-02)
- Hotfix for observers in window cache getting stale and missing window events
Version 0.0.112 (2026-05-02)
β¨ New Features
- Wave magnification style for dock icons
π Bug Fixes
- Hotfix for windows not reacting to closure in window cache
- Finder no longer quits when closing its last window
Version 0.0.111 (2026-05-02)
β¨ New Features
- Drag files onto dock icons to open - default OFF (replaces file tray trigger)
- Quit apps when last window closes option
- Adjustable spacing between dock icons
π Bug Fixes
- Keyboard navigation preview panels
- Panels now appear during keyboard navigation after rapid succession
- Focused icon stays centered while navigating
- Panel dismisses properly on dock expansion
- Custom icons refresh immediately when changed
- Custom icons not rendering
- Better performance for icon rendering
- Edge fade corrected near dock widgets
Version 0.0.110 (2026-04-30)
β¨ New Features
- Align dock to a certain side of the screen
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Toggle individual traffic light buttons
- Option to disable minimized or hidden icon dimming
- Single-window action when cycling apps when single window is already frontmost
- Reverse sort direction for folders, folders now store sorting separately from each other
- Animated settings gear in dock when settings window open, clicking brings it to front
- Revamped settings and widget editor to make it easier to reorganize items
- Moved dock profile edit to a contained sheet
- Improved widget and item addition picker, no longer a dropdown
- Custom app icons are now global, no longer per profile
π Bug Fixes
- Apps reopen when no windows exist
- Some users reported Chrome not responding to icon presses when it was running with no windows
- Folder panels center correctly when expand folder items enabled
- Drawer panel opens without delay (custom images slowed this down, they are now cached)
- Custom icons handle deleted files
Version 0.0.109 (2026-04-28)
β¨ New Features
- App ExposΓ© from dock context menu
- Can be assigned as a gesture action
- DockDoor Pro app icon in dock during settings
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother panel animations and haptics
- Smoother dock profile switching animation
π Bug Fixes
- Preview thumbnails steady on hover
- No crash on app restart
- Trash button fits in tight spaces
Version 0.0.108 (2026-04-25)
β¨ New Features
- Browse and search any app's menu commands (app menu right click option UX enhancement)
- Force light or dark appearance in appearance
- Restrict modifier keys to left or right side for international keyboards
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Instant hover when a panel is already open option - default OFF
π Bug Fixes
- Smoother keyboard and panel interactions
- Keyboard navigation no longer conflicts with mouse hover
- Right-click panels no longer replaced by hover timer
- Keyboard scroll-to-focus works more reliably
- Shortcuts work in more panel contexts
Version 0.0.107 (2026-04-24)
β¨ New Features
- App menu bar options in right-click panels (open new window, new incognito window, etc) for every app
- Widget auto-return with countdown timer (star a widget to mark it as 'main')
- Eject volumes by dragging to trash now animates with enhanced UX
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother panel-to-panel transitions
- Adjustable panel presentation and rendering animation speed
- Feels-like temperature in weather widget
- Update badges on marketplace widgets when updates available
- Animated widget stack page transitions
π Bug Fixes
- Settings search hides disabled options
- Widget expansion no longer jitters
Version 0.0.106 (2026-04-23)
β¨ New Features
- Multi-select dock apps with Cmd+Click
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Popup panels no longer go off screen when fitting lots of content
- Redesigned onboarding widgets page
π Bug Fixes
- Window cycling visits all app windows
- Dock magnification no longer jitters widgets
- Pinch gestures only trigger over the dock
- Click-to-hide works with minimized windows, no longer blocked
- Fix auto hide animation when file tray open
- Fixed animation on resize of panel window
Version 0.0.105 (2026-04-20)
β¨ New Features
- Pinch and swipe gestures on dock icons (default OFF for initial rollout in beta)
- Search for icon gestures in the settings
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Grid view inspired by iOS home screen option for folder panels
- Weather widget supports current location in widget settings
- Better weather widget daytime readability, darker bg
- File tray customization
- Choose tap action: open or reveal in Finder
- Confirm before trashing or removing files
- Dedicated settings tab
- Adjustable scroll sensitivity setting restored
- Snappier magnification animation when paused to fix animation lag
- Emptying trash now asks for confirmation
π Bug Fixes
- Auto-hide no longer oscillates near screen edge, bundled with some other auto hide fixes
- Folder panels open without delay
- Long press panel can replace right click panel
Version 0.0.104 (2026-04-17)
π Bug Fixes
- Hotfix for icons not being clickable in the dock
Version 0.0.103 (2026-04-17)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Redesigned weather widget layout
- File tray no longer opens across all screens
π Bug Fixes
- Multi-monitor dock works correctly
- Each screen's dock operates independently
- Tooltips stay within the correct screen
- Keyboard navigation targets active screen
- Fixes critical crash on intel mac
Version 0.0.102 (2026-04-17)
π Bug Fixes
- Keyboard-cycled previews anchor after scroll, no more preview flashing on keybind
- Hover clears when icons scroll offscreen for widgets that are pushed off screen
Version 0.0.101 (2026-04-17)
β¨ New Features
- New beautiful weather widget
- Expanded weather forecast panel
- Hourly forecast timeline
- Multi-day outlook
- Richer animated weather scenes
- Searchable settings with highlight
- Installed widgets tab in marketplace
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother dock during expansion
- Reduced hitches while magnifying
- Steadier icon layout on open
- Cleaner scroll-gesture animation
- Panels now open from their icon with a better animation
- Badges on inaccessible pinned folders when access is denied
- Separate opacity for widget card backgrounds
π Bug Fixes
- Tooltips no longer linger on hidden icons
- Buttons inside widgets register taps properly
- Now playing artwork no longer flickers on updates
- Folder cards no longer flash on expansion of file tray
Version 0.0.100 (2026-04-10)
β¨ New Features
- File tray and AirDrop dock widgets
- Middle-click to close window previews
- Eject volumes by dragging to trash
- Manual Chromium profile directory selection
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Long tooltip names now scroll smoothly
- File tray shows helpful empty-state hint
- Subtler widget card backgrounds
- Drawer buttons feel more responsive
- Debug logs include hardware info
π Bug Fixes
- Tooltips no longer stick during rapid hovering
- Scroll direction correct on side/top docks
- Folder swipe matches natural direction
- Custom profile icons appear in app drawer
- Dock cards visible on light wallpapers
- Bounce animation no longer clips at edges for vertical docks
- Lower CPU usage during window preview panel usage
Version 0.0.99 (2026-04-06)
β¨ New Features
- Calendar events in clock widget pop out panel
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother dock scrolling
- Improved taskbar icon layout, no more clipping (thanks @mason for validating various builds)
- More accurate media playback progress (no more background CPU usage)
- More reliable lyrics syncing
- Chrome profile icon discovery improvement
- Trash widget rewritten to mirror Raycast trash opening (more reliable)
π Bug Fixes
- Resolved issues with open panels dismissing unexpectedly
- Fixed trash opening on file drag
- Window closing now more reliable
- Fixed file tray corner rendering
- Dismiss open panels when scrolling widgets
- Overall performance improvement and reduction in memory use
This update refactors and improves lots of backend code - report issues if encountered.
Version 0.0.98 (2026-04-03)
π Bug Fixes
- Chrome profile badges match more reliably with added logging
Version 0.0.97 (2026-04-03)
β¨ New Features
- Audio device widget for the dock
- Shows current output device
- Switch output and input devices
- Reorderable control panel sections
- Drag to reorder, hide, or restore sections
- Sort control panel apps alphabetically
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Refreshed battery widget design
- Bolt icon overlays when charging
- Widget orientation awareness
- Marketplace filters by horizontal/vertical
- Incompatible widgets auto-hidden in stacks
π Bug Fixes
- Volume slider now no longer renders blank in dock panels
- Incompatible widgets removed instead of crashing
Version 0.0.96 (2026-04-02)
β¨ New Features
- Marketplace widgets can now open panels, update storage widget if installed
π§ Improvements & Stability
- "Stack Size" label in widget settings
π Bug Fixes
- Now playing panel display fixes
- Text centers in expanded mode
- Stale artwork clears between tracks
Version 0.0.95 (2026-04-02)
β¨ New Features
- Browser profile badges on previews
- Profile icon shown next to window titles
- Configurable browser and toggle in settings
- New preview customizations
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Independent title and button positioning
- Place each element in any corner or edge
- Adjustable card background opacity
- Tooltips easier to read on busy backgrounds
π Bug Fixes
- Album artwork updates when switching apps
- Folder popups dismiss based off their largest frame, navigating to sub directory no longer hides instantly
Version 0.0.94 (2026-03-31)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Window actions no longer make animations freeze momentarily
π Bug Fixes
- Marketplace widgets fill their full card area
Version 0.0.93 (2026-03-31)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Master toggle for keyboard shortcuts
- Disable all shortcuts at once in settings
- Shortcut options hide when disabled
π Bug Fixes
- Widgets clip to rounded card corners
- Update overlay stretches with magnification
- Fixes windows rapidly destroying in cache causing high CPU
Version 0.0.92 (2026-03-31)
π Bug Fixes
- Hidden apps animate smoothly now
- State changes no longer snap abruptly
Version 0.0.91 (2026-03-31)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Dock background style choices
- Liquid glass, frosted, or transparent
- Separate styling option for panels vs dock
- Marketplace widget update detection
- "Update Available" badge on widgets
- Updates apply without restarting
- Redesigned widgets settings layout
- Tabbed pages for stacks, actions, marketplace
- Helpful setup guidance in settings
- Toggle to hide all dock widgets
- Smoother dock icon rendering performance (animation temporarily disabled on hidden applications)
π Bug Fixes
- Fixes widget marketplace not loading on install
- Panel corner radius applies consistently
- Now playing text aligns correctly
- Fixes bouncing animation playing forever for VS Code
Version 0.0.90 (2026-03-30)
π Bug Fixes
- Balanced preview spacing without app name
Version 0.0.89 (2026-03-30)
β¨ New Features
- Custom dock accent color
- Override the system accent color for all dock elements
- Widget marketplace
- Browse, download, and install community widgets (initial rollout, further communication will come in regards to developing your own widgets)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Redesigned window preview cards
- Focused window highlighted with accent border
- Cleaner card styling and corner radius
- Profile button navigation
- Page dots show active profile
- Scrolling wraps around continuously
- Widget stacks no longer always show pagination, revealed on hover, new look
- Two-finger swipe in folder browser to navigate to subdirectories
- Haptic feedback option when hovering icons
- Scrolling disabled when all icons fit
- File preview popout preview moved to default off, new settings option
π Bug Fixes
- Dock stays visible during Show Desktop
- Card corner radius applies to all backgrounds (including window preview, window preview radius option removed to be more in line with other panels)
- Edge fade appears on correct dock sides
Version 0.0.88 (2026-03-27)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Redesigned clock widget
- Refreshed clock face design
- Optional date display below time
- Widget scrolling now wraps around
- Quit and Force Quit combined inline
- New card corner rounding slider
- Widgets tab moved up in settings
π Bug Fixes
- Buttons now register clicks reliably
- Preview minimize/close buttons work consistently
- Action panel rows respond on first click
- Music widget transitions smoothly
- Track info no longer flickers on change
- Lyrics view hides scrollbar
- Window cycling keeps correct reference
- Show Desktop no longer disrupts dock
- Icon card customization restored
Version 0.0.87 (2026-03-26)
β¨ New Features
- Relaunch any app from its menu
- Full now playing panel mode
- Large artwork and remaining time
- Compact mode still available
- Inline profile scroll switching
- Keep dock visible during Show Desktop
- Option to disable tooltips
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Window previews fill cards cleanly
- More responsive media controls
π Bug Fixes
- Smoother, more reliable bounce animation
- No spurious bounce on dock startup
- Focused apps no longer bounce
- Consistent corner radius across all panels
- Cursor no longer trapped by overlay panels
- Background apps can't steal focus
- Correct behavior near dock edges
- Magnification responds to sideways mouse entry
Version 0.0.86 (2026-03-25)
π Bug Fixes
- Smoother dock icon bounce animation
- No more flash when bounce triggers
- Icons no longer clipped while bouncing
Version 0.0.85 (2026-03-25)
β¨ New Features
- Bounce animation for dock icons
- Icons bounce when apps launch
- Bounces on new window events
- Cycle dock profiles via keybind
- Switch profiles without opening settings
π§ Improvements & Stability
- More dock icon click actions (defaults to minimize)
- Choose minimize, hide, or cycle windows
- Customizable corner radius settings (more extensive)
- Separate dock and card rounding controls
- Preview panels match card rounding
- Control panel widget refinements
- Tooltips on hover for each button
- Button background and spacing options in widget page
- Per-widget hover-to-activate toggle
π Bug Fixes
- Now playing icon displays correctly
- Folder preview closes when dragging items
- Mouse interaction with dock more reliable
- Tooltip text no longer flickers on change
- Misc performance and UX improvements
Version 0.0.84 (2026-03-20)
π Bug Fixes
- Cursor stays correct over previews
- No more unexpected cursor changes
- Cursor restores properly on exit
Version 0.0.83 (2026-03-19)
β¨ New Features
- Pin now playing as an overlay on right click
- Right-click to pin on screen
- Pin to lock screen option
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Profile button visibility toggle
- Option to hide from dock
- Large profile button mode
- Control panel widget enhancements
- Long-press/right click opens control panel drawer
- Compact layout for small button sets available
- Edge fade adapts to widget layout
- No feathering on sides without widgets
π Bug Fixes
- Gesture reliability improved
- Buttons no longer trigger during long-press
- Widget scrolling activates more consistently
- Battery percentage text now readable on all backgrounds
Version 0.0.82 (2026-03-19)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother fade at scroll edges
- Gradual curve replaces harsh cutoff
- Scroll chevron arrows removed
- Slimmer profile button in dock
π Bug Fixes
- Widget card backgrounds toggle correctly
- Background setting works in all modes
- Indicator dots moved to leading edge in leading widgets
Version 0.0.81 (2026-03-19)
β¨ New Features
- Letter navigation for dock apps (default off)
- Hold Option + press a letter to jump to matching apps
- Press the same letter to cycle through matches
- Configurable double-tap speed in settings
- File actions in context menus
- Copy path, copy file, and move to trash
- Available in file tray, pinned items, and folder stacks
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Clock widget supports 24-hour format and custom timezone
- Folder stack items show full action menu on right-click
Version 0.0.80 (2026-03-19)
- Fixes dock pinned to right showing scrollbar still
Version 0.0.79 (2026-03-19)
π Bug Fixes
- Scroll indicators hidden in dock row
- Brief flash of scrollbars no longer appears
Version 0.0.78 (2026-03-19)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Consistent edge fading in dock row
- Cleaner now playing widget appearance
Version 0.0.77 (2026-03-18)
π Bug Fixes
- Fixes magnification being misaligned when dock auto hide enabled
Version 0.0.76 (2026-03-18)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother dock rendering performance
- Fewer unnecessary redraws during magnification
- Isolated icon updates reduce frame drops
- Scroll chevrons appear when dock overflows
- Restart prompt after dock style change
- Volume scroll feels more consistent
π Bug Fixes
- Fixes misaligned icons in the dock
- Fixes window overlap resizing (again, please message me if not fixed)
- Dock no longer extends past screen edges
- Scroll and input fixes
- Scroll direction corrected
- Long press/right click works on widgets again
- Scroll blocked during profile switching
- Edge fade no longer glitches at small sizes
- Window overlap detection more reliable
Version 0.0.75 (2026-03-17)
β¨ New Features
- Dock widgets
- Clock, battery, and now playing
- Trash, show desktop, quick actions
- Placed on leading or trailing dock edges
- Dock profile button shows active profile, click to open drawer
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Redesigned tooltip appearance
- Cleaner, more compact layout
- Smoother magnification performance
- Unified layout across dock modes
- Profile switching via scroll reworked into dock profile button, click to open drawer
π Bug Fixes
- Tap and long press no longer conflict
- Tooltips stay on screen at dock edges
- Volume scroll sensitivity setting
- Fixed magnification getting stuck during auto hide
- Magnification updates after repositioning
Version 0.0.74 (2026-03-15)
- Fixes an issue where waking from sleep would cause high CPU usage
Version 0.0.73 (2026-03-15)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Toggleable process stats in previews
- CPU and memory usage can be hidden
- New toggle in preview appearance settings
π Bug Fixes
- Tooltips stay anchored during file tray expand
Version 0.0.72 (2026-03-15)
β¨ New Features
- CPU and RAM stats in window previews
- Shows live resource usage per app
- Visible in the preview panel header
π Bug Fixes
- Clicks no longer blocked after auto-hide
- Dock overlap zone now stays accurate
- Edge guard clears properly when hidden
- Tooltips no longer jump during magnification
Version 0.0.71 (2026-03-14)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smarter control panel pin management
- Actions auto-pin when first enabled
- Pin toggle available in settings editor
- Pin badges always visible on buttons
Version 0.0.70 (2026-03-14)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Polished window preview cards
- Smoother title and button fade transitions
- Refined shadows and borders
- Better scaling at different sizes
- Auto-hide activates along full screen edge
- Cleaner app name header in previews
π Bug Fixes
- Auto-hide edge detection more reliable
- Dock hides properly after cursor leaves
- Tooltip no longer lingers during slide-out
- Cursor no longer stuck on wrong icon near dock
- Clicks work normally with file tray open
Version 0.0.69 (2026-03-13)
β¨ New Features
- Highlighted app name in previews
- App icon and name shown above window thumbnails
- Per-app gradient glow from icon colors
- Toggle globally or per app in settings
π Bug Fixes
- File tray tracks magnification position
- Dock icons centered in standard mode
Version 0.0.69 (2026-03-13)
β¨ New Features
- Native dock position control
- Pin native dock to a specific edge
- Optionally restore native dock on quit
- Per-window controls in context menu
- Minimize or close individual windows
- Gradient-highlighted app names in previews
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Redesigned window preview cards
- macOS-style traffic light controls
- Blurred material background and title pill
- Smoother tooltip and panel animations
- Scale + slide transitions on tooltips
- Panels animate size changes smoothly
- Magnification performance optimized
- Dock overlap avoidance tightened to icon frame
- App focus transitions now animate
π Bug Fixes
- Auto-hide issues resolved
- Works correctly in fullscreen apps
- File tray no longer breaks slide animation
- No more flash on initial activation
- Clicks no longer blocked near dock edges
- Dead zones above icons eliminated
- Edge-zone clicks activate nearest icon
- Taskbar mode fixes
- Background images now display correctly
- Drop zones and scroll sizing fixed
- Magnification no longer stuck after fullscreen exit
- Volume slider renders correctly on first open
- High CPU usage reduced
Version 0.0.68 (2026-03-13)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother tooltip animations
- Tooltips scale and slide in from dock edge
- Better positioning near magnified icons
- Popup panels animate when resizing
- Scrolling the dock dismisses open panels
π Bug Fixes
- Dock works correctly after fullscreen
- Magnification no longer stuck on exit
- Clicks near dock edges no longer blocked
- Taskbar mode scroll sizing corrected
- Drag-and-drop no longer leaves dock in wrong state
Version 0.0.67 (2026-03-12)
β¨ New Features
- Window preview appearance settings
- Card size, corner radius, selection opacity
- Title and button visibility modes
- Control position and animation toggles
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Redesigned window preview cards
- Configurable traffic light buttons
- Embedded or overlay control layout
- Cleaner per-window actions list
- Tap to focus, hover for controls
- Polished About page with ambient glow
π Bug Fixes
- Magnified icons respond to mouse correctly
- Hit zone expands to match enlarged icons
- Tracking updates after settings change
Version 0.0.66 (2026-03-12)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother dock magnification
- Less CPU usage during hover
- Reduced animation stutter
- Fewer layout recalculations
π Bug Fixes
- Tooltips no longer get stuck on screen
- Tooltip position tracks icons correctly during magnification
Version 0.0.65 (2026-03-12)
π Bug Fixes
- Dock hides properly in fullscreen apps
- Auto-hides even without the setting enabled
- Cursor-to-edge reveal works reliably
- Dock reappears correctly when exiting fullscreen
Version 0.0.64 (2026-03-12)
π Bug Fixes
- Dock works in fullscreen with auto-hide
- Hover-to-show now works in fullscreen apps
- Dock stays hidden in fullscreen when auto-hide is off
Version 0.0.63 (2026-03-11)
π§ Improvements & Stability
π Bug Fixes
- Clicks no longer blocked near dock edge
- Invisible padding above dock reduced
Version 0.0.62 (2026-03-11)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Fixed tooltips to work when hovering below icon frame during magnification
- Smoother auto-hide transitions
- Improved notification badge sizing
- Consistent icon corner rounding
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed taskbar custom background images
- Adjustable opacity and scale now works in taskbar mode
- Fixed file tray drop zones
- Fixed clicks blocked when hidden
- Fixed stuck magnification on expand
- Fixed folder cards during previews
- Fixed edge zone hit areas
Version 0.0.61 (2026-03-10)
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother dock focus animations
- Icon indicators animate instantly
- Background cards transition smoothly
- Faster magnification hover response
- Reduced unnecessary motion processing
- Optimized screen refresh rate
π Bug Fixes
- Edge clicks now hit icons
- Clicks near screen edge work
- Fixed media progress tracking
Version 0.0.60 (2026-03-10)
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed high CPU usage (magnification bug was introduced in 59, hot fix)
Version 0.0.59 (2026-03-10)
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed high CPU usage
- Smarter mouse tracking area
- Animations stop when idle
Version 0.0.58 (2026-03-10)
β¨ New Features
- Added full-width taskbar style
- Spans entire screen edge
- Smooth scroll fade effect
- File preview on hover
- Native dock position control
- Recommends best placement automatically
- Restore native dock on quit
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Badges show when app focused
- Improved window close reliability
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed Finder activation issues
- Fixed taskbar background rendering
Version 0.0.57 (2026-03-10)
π§ Improvements & Stability
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed non-trackpad scroll control
Version 0.0.56 (2026-03-10)
β¨ New Features
- Custom dock background image
- Per-profile image overlay
- Adjustable opacity and scale
- Excluded apps settings panel
- Add and manage hidden apps
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Badges now show counts
- Smoother file tray resizing
- Default profile now togglable
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed file tray edge fading
Version 0.0.55
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Version 0.0.54 (2026-03-09)
β¨ New Features
- Hide running apps option
- Audio input device switching
- About page in settings
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Smoother dock background styling
- Ambient glow support
- Customizable glass appearance
- Better folder browsing experience
- Subfolder navigation added
- Smoother scroll fade effect
- Improved icon scaling behavior
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed scroll locking issues
- Fixed app focusing errors
- Fixed auto-hide click blocking
- Fixed crash when toggling pins
- Fixed lyrics not clearing
Version 0.0.53 (2026-03-08)
β¨ New Features
- Added AirDrop drop zone
- Added file tray system
- Multi-select and drag support
- Bulk actions panel
- Added dock profiles switching
- Added control panel drawer
- Quick action buttons strip
- Audio device picker
- Added folder browser navigation
- Subfolder drill-down support
- Added now playing lyrics
- Added onboarding setup flow
- Added middle-click to quit
- Added window click cycling
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Overhauled magnification animations
- Smoother scaling and nudging
- Improved dock background styles
- Liquid glass option added
- Added haptic feedback intensity setting
- Improved auto-hide drag activation
- Better trash icon interactions
- Multi-file drop support
- Added confirm key picker
- Improved right-click action panels
- Added window count dots
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed magnification animation jank
- Fixed trash dropping copies
- Fixed pin toggle crash
- Fixed lyrics not clearing
- Fixed memory leak monitoring folders
Version 0.0.52 (2026-03-06)
β¨ New Features
- Added AirDrop drop zone
- Added file tray system
- Multi-select and drag selection
- Bulk file actions panel
- Added dock profiles system
- Per-display profile switching
- Profile scroll picker
- Added control panel drawer
- Quick action button strip
- Audio device switching
- Added now playing widget
- Media controls and lyrics
- Animated album artwork
- Added app search launcher
- Added middle-click to quit
- Added window preview panels
- Added auto-hide drag activation
- Added dock keyboard navigation
- Added onboarding setup flow
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Added liquid glass background
- Improved magnification smoothness
- Callback-driven icon updates
- Added haptic intensity setting
- Added dock icon badges
- Improved window cycling on click
- Added right-click action panels
- Added dock position options
- Added icon size magnification slider
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed trash drop copying files
- Fixed auto-hide during drag
- Fixed magnification animation jank
- Fixed folder icon hover glitch
- Fixed memory leak in monitoring
Version 0.0.51 (2026-03-05)
β¨ New Features
- Added AirDrop drop zone
- Added dock sets system
- Switch configurations per screen
- Link sets to apps
- Added file tray feature
- Drag selection and multi-select
- Bulk file actions panel
- Added media now playing widget
- Lyrics and progress display
- Added window preview panels
- Added control panel drawer
- Customizable action buttons
- Audio device switching
- Added onboarding setup flow
- Added dock icon badges
- Added show desktop icon
- Added dock spacers and separators
- Added keyboard dock navigation
- Added license activation system
π§ Improvements & Stability
- Middle-click to quit apps
- Replaced triple-click method
- Improved auto-hide behavior
- Drag activates hidden dock
- Configurable show delay
- Added liquid glass background
- Improved magnification animations
- Added haptic intensity setting
- Window cycling on repeated clicks
- Better overlap avoidance logic
- Improved dock icon sizing
π Bug Fixes
- Fixed trash dropping copies
- Fixed trash source file loading
- Fixed auto-hide during trash use
- Fixed stale dock frame overlap
- Fixed directory monitor memory leak
- Fixed glass backdrop scaling