Build a separate Dock for coding, design, video or anything else, and switch between them in one click. Each Dock keeps its own apps, size, position and auto-hide settings.
$4.99 once · No subscription · macOS 14 Sonoma or later
Default · 12 apps · Bottom · Medium icons
One Mac. A Dock for
Your Mac has one Dock, so it ends up holding the apps for every project you’ve ever started. Dock Switcher gives each kind of work its own calm, uncluttered Dock.
Two dozen icons, tiny and hard to tell apart. The design tools sit next to the code editor, and the one you need is always at the far end.
A focused Dock for each kind of work, with only the apps it needs. Switch when your work changes, and your Dock changes with it.
Make as many Docks as you like. Start blank, pick one of seven starter templates, or capture the Dock you have right now. Give each one a name, a color and a symbol so you can spot it at a glance.
Custom DocksThe settings you know from System Settings, saved with every Dock. Big icons on the bottom for writing, a small Dock on the left for video. Dock Switcher applies them when you switch.
Try the settingsSwitch from the menu bar, with a global shortcut like Control-Option-1, with the Shortcuts app or Siri, or with a URL. A small HUD always tells you which Dock you’re in.
dockswitcher://switch?dock=Design from a launcher or script.Turn on sync and your Docks appear on your other Macs through your own iCloud account. There’s no new account to create. If a Dock includes an app that isn’t installed on a particular Mac, Dock Switcher skips it there and keeps the rest.
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Dock Switcher feels like part of macOS, because it works with the Dock you already know.
Make as many Docks as you like. Give each one a name, a color and a symbol so you can spot it at a glance.
Apps, folders and stacks, files, web links and spacers. Stacks keep every view and sort option you’re used to.
Icon size, magnification, position, auto-hide, minimize effect and more, saved separately for every Dock.
The menu bar, a keyboard shortcut, the Shortcuts app, Siri or a URL. Whatever’s closest to hand.
Switch on a schedule, or when you connect or disconnect an external display.
Your Docks follow you to every Mac. No new account. Apps a Mac doesn’t have are skipped.
Your original Dock is backed up before the first switch. Restore it any time with one click.
Seven templates, from App Development to Focus, filled in with matching apps you already have.
Export a Dock as a .dockswitcher file and send it to a teammate to import.
Every Dock remembers its own size, magnification, position and auto-hide behavior. Play with them below.
Large icons for a Dock with five apps, small ones for a Dock with twenty. Try the slider.
Hover over the Dock to see magnification.
Turn magnification on or off and choose how large icons grow under the pointer, Dock by Dock.
Let a Dock slide away until you need it, with its own auto-hide delay. Great for a full-screen editing Dock.
Set up your first Dock in about a minute.
Start blank, pick a starter template, or capture the Dock you have right now.
Add apps, folders and links, then set the size, position and behavior you want for this Dock.
Choose a Dock from the menu bar or press its shortcut. Your Dock changes in about a second.
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.dockswitcher filesmacOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel
Dock Switcher is $4.99, once, on the Mac App Store. There’s no subscription and there are no in-app purchases. Family Sharing is included, so your family can use it too.
The first time you switch, macOS asks whether Dock Switcher may control the Dock. This is a standard macOS Automation permission. Dock Switcher changes your Dock the same way System Settings does: it updates the Dock’s own preferences and restarts the Dock. Without this permission, the Dock can’t change. You can review it any time in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Automation › Dock Switcher.
That’s normal. To apply a new Dock, Dock Switcher restarts the macOS Dock, just as System Settings does when you change some Dock options. It takes about a second, and the Dock redraws with your new apps and settings. Your open apps and windows aren’t affected.
No. Before your first switch, Dock Switcher automatically backs up your original Dock. You can bring it back any time with one click on Restore Original Dock. You can also capture your current Dock as a new Dock in Dock Switcher, so it’s always one switch away.
Yes. Turn on iCloud sync and your Docks appear on every Mac signed in to your iCloud account. There’s no new account to create. If a Dock includes an app that isn’t installed on one of your Macs, Dock Switcher simply skips it there.
Dock Switcher is $4.99 on the Mac App Store. Set up your first Dock in a minute, and switch whenever your work does.