Pipfloats and ponders
Dock profiles · Workspaces · Focus timer · macOS 26
One Dock for everykind of work.
DockAlly rebuilds your real Dock for whatever you are doing: apps grouped, recent files stacked, windows put back, a focus timer running. And a few small animals live down there too.
- $3.99 once, yours forever
- Everything stays on your Mac
- macOS 26 or later
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Misojudges your code
Waddlebelly-slides everywhere
Emberpounces on icons
Mochihappy hops
Picklecatches bugs, literally
Baoalways snacking
Pipfloats and ponders
Misojudges your code
Waddlebelly-slides everywhere
Emberpounces on icons
Mochihappy hops
Picklecatches bugs, literally
Baoalways snackingDock profiles
One Dock per kind of work.
Coding, Designing, Studying, Personal. Each profile is a real Dock layout: apps in groups, folders, and a stack of the files you actually opened. Switch it yourself, or let DockAlly notice which apps you have been living in.
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Coding
Xcode, Terminal, Simulator and browsers, grouped. Recent projects in a stack by the Trash.
✎
Designing
Figma, Photos, Preview. Recent images in a grid stack, ready to drag out.
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Studying
Notes, Books, Calendar. PDFs and documents you actually opened.
⌂
Personal
Exactly the Dock you had before DockAlly. Backed up, and one click away.
Smart workspaces
Switch the Dock. Then rebuild the desk.
A profile can carry your whole setup. Nothing opens by itself: when the Dock changes, a button appears beside it and waits for you to say go.
- Apps launched in order, quietly in the background.
- Folders opened in Finder, like the project you were in.
- Links opened in your browser: dashboards, docs, the staging site.
- Windows put back exactly where you saved them.
- A focus timer counting down beside the Dock until the break.
And the residents
Seven of them live down there.
Turn them on if you want them. Every frame is drawn by the app itself, they react to the app you just opened, and they sleep when you step away. Turn them off and the profiles, workspaces and focus timer carry on exactly the same.
Pip
floats and ponders
Miso
judges your code
Waddle
belly-slides everywhere
Ember
pounces on icons
Mochi
happy hops
Pickle
catches bugs, literally
Bao
always snacking
⌘B
They notice
What you open,
they copy.
You open Xcode
The nearest creature runs to the icon, pulls on tiny headphones and types along with you on a little laptop.
You play something
Music starts and the cat dances on the Dock, with notes drifting off the top of the glass.
You open Figma
Design work brings out a paintbrush, and flicks of colour land around the Dock.
You walk away
After a few quiet minutes they yawn, curl up on the Finder icon and sleep until you come back.
You leave them to it
Two of them wander together and talk about your tab count, your build, or how late it is.
The app itself
Black and white. The colour is the creatures.
Every control is ink on paper, or paper on ink. Selection is shown by flipping the two, never by a splash of colour, so nothing competes with your work, or with the animals at the bottom of the screen.
Stays on your Mac
No account, no server, no analytics. DockAlly reads where your Dock icons are, and nothing else.
Light on the machine
Drawing happens off the main thread, repeated poses are reused, and nothing is drawn while the Dock is covered.
Your Dock, returnable
Your original Dock is saved before the first change. One click puts it back, sort orders and all.
Questions
The honest answers.
Why does DockAlly need Accessibility access?+
To read where your Dock icons are, so a creature can run to the app you just opened, and to put windows back where you saved them. It reads positions. It never types, clicks, or reads your screen.
Will it mess up my Dock?+
Your Dock is backed up before the first change, and "Restore Original Dock" puts it back exactly. Each folder keeps its own sort order and view. DockAlly never changes those.
Does the Dock flicker when a profile switches?+
macOS restarts the Dock to change it. DockAlly covers that moment: glass tiles wrap each icon, gather into one bar while the Dock reloads behind it, then split over the new icons and fade away.
How much does it slow my Mac down?+
With all seven creatures it sits around 15 to 25 per cent of one core while they move, and drops when they sleep or the Dock is covered. The main thread stays free, so nothing else feels slower.
Can I turn the creatures off and keep the Dock profiles?+
Yes. Hide them from the paw menu and the profiles, workspaces and focus timer carry on without them.
Does it work on a Mac without a notch, or on an external display?+
Yes. DockAlly follows the Dock itself: bottom, left or right, on whichever display it is on. It gets out of the way in full screen.
Give your Docksomeone to live on it.
macOS 26 or later, Apple silicon · $3.99 once, no subscription. The app asks for your licence key the first time you open it.
