Release history
Docksmith 1.4.3 is what you get today — everything on this page, in one app. A licence bought at any point includes every 1.x update, and never expires.
Newest first. Each heading is what that release added; the smaller note under it is the corrections that followed.
⌃⌘K shows every shortcut currently in force, on one panel — the ones you recorded rather than the defaults, and each dock's own alongside the feature ones. Any key closes it.
⌃⌘P is held rather than tapped: every hidden dock comes out while the keys are down. With auto-hide off it is not registered at all, because there would be nothing for it to reveal.
1.4.1 corrected three things that reported the wrong state, including a peek shortcut that said it had failed when it had not. 1.4.2 gave the first dock something to show before Accessibility is granted, instead of only a permission button.
Every keyboard shortcut became recordable. Click one, press the combination you want. The feature shortcuts live in Settings → General, and each dock gets its own in Settings → Docks.
A dock given a shortcut of its own keeps it when you reorder the list, instead of the positional chord moving to another dock — a chord chosen on purpose never migrates.
⌃⌘S searches your apps. A palette over everything: type a few letters to launch or raise anything in your Applications folders. It needs no Accessibility permission to launch.
⌃⌘O opens files. Desktop, Documents, Downloads and every folder pinned to a dock. ⌘Return lists the apps that can open the selected file, and ⌘1–9 pick one directly.
1.2.1 and 1.2.2 changed wording only — every feature behaved exactly as it did in 1.2.0. An audit found sentences that had gone out of date, one of them a privacy claim, and they were corrected rather than left standing.
From 1.1.0 a key is required before the docks appear — the free trial key or a purchased one. The trial is bound to the machine rather than to an address, which is why it is issued once per Mac and not once per e-mail.
1.1.1 fixed the trial itself: asking for a key from inside the app sent you to the site without the piece it needed.
Up to ten docks, each pinned to a display and an edge, holding the apps and folders you choose. Auto-hide with a reveal zone that belongs to each dock. The knock, for edges a full-screen app has claimed. Pinned folders, the Trash tile, hover previews, Focus mode and the workspace.
1.0.1 replaced the app icon, which turned to mush at the sizes an icon actually lives at, and fixed an overview that showed one cell fewer than it delivered.
One payment, no subscription, no account. A licence covers a stated number of Macs and never expires. Every 1.x update is included — everything on this page, and everything that follows it in the 1.x line.
If a paid 2.0 is ever released, existing customers are offered it at half price and the 1.x they own keeps working. A new major version never disables what was bought.
Download it, open it, and ask for a trial key from inside the app. No card, no account.
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