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Dock+

A floating second Dock of live widgets that sits right above your macOS Dock. Check the weather, skip a track, open your next meeting, copy a password or search the web, without opening an app. Everything stays on your Mac.

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Free and open source (MIT) · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel · Signed and notarized by Apple

Support

Install, settings, how-tos and permissions.

FAQ

Quick answers and fixes for common hiccups.

What Dock+ accesses and how it's handled.

The terms for using the app.

What Dock+ does

The macOS Dock launches apps. Dock+ adds a second strip of live tiles right above it: the things you keep switching apps to check. It shows on every Desktop, never steals focus, and lifts out of the way when an auto-hidden Dock appears. Like the real Dock, it keeps other windows from sliding underneath it, and one click shrinks it to a small handle when you want the screen back.

Why I built it

I kept switching apps all day just to glance at something: the next meeting, what was playing, the inbox, the weather, a password. The Mac's Dock opens apps, but it shows nothing live. So I built the Dock I wanted. The first working version took about an hour with Claude Code, made to fit the way I work, and I have kept polishing it since. It is free for anyone who wants the same thing.

Junior Brito

Sixteen widgets, one glance

Each tile does one useful thing well, and most let you act, not just look.

Clock & Weather

Time, date, temperature, conditions and your city in one tile. Weather comes from the free Open-Meteo service, using your approximate location. No account, no key.

Music

Now playing with play/pause and skip. Click for your current playlist. Works with Apple Music and Spotify (the playlist view is Apple Music only).

Calendar

Your next event, with long titles wrapping onto two lines. Shown in your accent color, then amber under 30 minutes and pulsing red under 10. Click to open the event in Calendar.

Reminders

How many reminders are open. Click to add a reminder, tick one off, or move it to Today, Tomorrow or Next Week. Show all lists or just one.

Mail

Your latest inbox messages. Click one to open that exact email in Mail. Hover to snooze it (Mail's Remind Me), archive it or delete it.

System

Live CPU and memory use, read directly from macOS.

Battery

Charge level and whether you're plugged in.

Apps

Your favorite apps on the bar. One click to open.

Folders

Pinned folders. Click for a preview of what's inside, double-click to open in Finder.

Bookmarks

Drag a link onto the tile to save it, then click to open it later.

Dia Tabs

Your open tabs in the Dia browser. Click one to jump straight to it.

Emoji

Your five most-used emoji plus the full picker. Click one and it's pasted into the app you're typing in.

Ask Claude

Type a question and press Return to start a new chat in the Claude desktop app.

1Password

Search your logins. Every result has buttons to copy the username, the password or the verification code, or to open the website. The clipboard clears itself after 90 seconds.

Quick Actions

One-click shortcuts: Screenshot, Screenshot to Clipboard, Sleep Display, Lock Screen, Screen Saver, Empty Trash, Toggle Dark Mode, Mute/Unmute and Open Downloads. Pick the ones you want; the tile grows to fit them.

Chrome Search

Type a search or a web address and press Return to open it in a new Google Chrome tab. The list button shows your open Chrome tabs; click one to switch to it.

Built to stay out of your way

On your Mac: no account, no analytics, no tracking. The only thing Dock+ sends anywhere is your approximate location, for the weather.
Yours to arrange: turn widgets on or off, drag them into your order, put the bar at the top or bottom of the screen, and pick your own accent color.
Windows stay clear: windows stop at the edge of Dock+ instead of hiding under it. You can turn this off.
Native and light: a small SwiftUI menu-bar app that can start with your Mac.

Requirements

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later
Apple silicon or Intel

Contact

Questions or feedback? Email [email protected].

Dock+ is open source: view or contribute on GitHub.