Docksmith gives your Mac per-display docks, a drop-to-tile workspace, keyboard palettes for apps and files, and a frosted focus veil. Reliable, private, and yours forever.
7 days free, then from $19 once · macOS 14+ · Notarized by Apple
Features
Built for multi-display Macs and keyboard-first workflows, and engineered to stay correct after sleep, unplug and macOS updates.
Your side monitor finally gets its own dock. Each profile picks its screen, its edge and its position along that edge, and answers only on its own stretch of it. Docks follow their display across unplugs, chords in tow.
Learn more→Stack a second dock on the same edge: everyday apps above, the current project below. They reveal and hide together, like one surface.
Learn more→Drag an app tile onto the desktop: the app joins your workspace and every member's window snaps into a clean grid. The order you add them is the layout, the ghost preview is exactly what you get, and one chord shows or hides the whole set.
Learn more→In full screen, the screen's own edges stop answering hover: they belong to your app. Touch the edge, pull back (a glowing line answers), touch again: the dock appears.
Learn more→A hidden dock answers only on its own stretch of the edge. Busy edges wait for a tunable pause on top of that, they go silent while a menu is open, and a click anywhere else dismisses a revealed dock instantly.
Learn more→Every app with a window open, most recent first. Arrows to move, Return to switch. And your two latest apps are always two taps apart.
Learn more→A frosted veil dims and blurs the active window's display around it (that display only) and follows your focus as it moves. Its darkness is yours to tune.
Learn more→⌃⌘S opens a search palette: results from the first letter, every matching app in your Applications folders, in a dock or not. Return opens it; ⌘Return pins it to a dock instead.
Learn more→⌃⌘O browses Desktop, Documents, Downloads and every folder pinned to a dock, and searches a few levels deep. Return opens a file with its usual app. ⌘Return lists the top apps that can open it, the default checked, and ⌘1–⌘9 pick one directly.
Learn more→Pin any folder: one click opens a live grid of its latest files, thumbnails included. Downloads, screenshots, current project, all one click away.
Learn more→Hide the built-in Dock without losing the Trash: Docksmith gives it a tile. Drop files straight onto it: recoverable, always, never a permanent delete.
Learn more→Glide over a tile to see a live thumbnail of the window a click would raise. Right-click for the full list. Optional, and off by default.
Learn more→Icon size, corner radius, four finishes from ultra-thin glass to opaque, labels on or off. And every effect has its dial: veil darkness, reveal delay, knock tempo. One coherent look, tuned in Settings.
Learn more→docksmith:// links drive docks and Focus mode from Shortcuts, Focus modes or Raycast. Your evening Focus can dim the world for you.
Learn more→No ghost windows, no teleporting docks (through sleep, display unplugs and macOS updates). Boring, in the best possible way.
Private by design. No account, no analytics, nothing about you leaves your Mac; Docksmith only reads from its own server: update checks and the licence revocation list. One permission (Accessibility) makes it work; Screen Recording stays optional for previews, and access to Desktop, Documents and Downloads only ever follows macOS's own per-folder question. Notarized by Apple, updated with signed releases.
Native
Built in Swift and AppKit to be fast, reliable and quiet: a Mac app, not a web page in a window.
Pricing
No subscription, no account. Every 1.x update included, and version 2.0 will be half price for you.
One licence
$14.50 per Mac · save 24%
$13.00 per Mac · save 32%
Prices in USD, tax handled at checkout. More than 10 Macs, or need an invoice with a purchase order? Talk to us.
FAQ
No. You pay once and the app is yours forever, with every 1.x update included. If a paid 2.0 ever ships, existing customers get it at half price, and 1.x keeps working regardless.
Your choice. Docksmith works alongside the native Dock, or can hide it for you, and always restores it when Docksmith quits.
Nothing about you, ever. Docksmith only reads from its own server: the signed update check and, while a purchased licence is installed, a daily copy of the licence revocation list, so a refunded key stops counting. No analytics, no account, no telemetry. Licences are verified on your Mac.
All of them. The seven feature shortcuts live in Settings → General and each dock gets its own in Settings → Docks. Click one and press the combination you want, with a reset per shortcut and one for all of them. Two of those seven are new in 1.4.0: ⌃⌘K shows every shortcut currently in force on one panel, and ⌃⌘P is held rather than tapped; every hidden dock comes out while the keys are down. Two honest limits: a shortcut needs at least two modifier keys, and macOS gives no way to know in advance whether another app already owns a chord, so if one does nothing when you press it, record a different one and it works.
Accessibility: that's how it lists and raises other apps' windows. Screen Recording is optional and only powers hover previews. The file palette reads Desktop, Documents and Downloads only after macOS itself asks you: once, per folder, with the system's own dialog.
macOS offers no public API for other apps' badges. Docksmith only ships what can work reliably without hacks that break on every macOS update.