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Orbit Dock Pro

A macOS launcher that opens at your cursor

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Orbit Dock Pro is a Mac launcher for apps, files, and folders, built around your cursor. Open it with a hotkey or by moving to a trigger area on screen, then click to launch instantly. Build separate profiles for work, design, or code, each with its own shortcut and layout. One-time purchase, no account, no subscription. Everything runs locally on your Mac.

PH · launched Sep 17, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: application and game launchers · 233 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -84% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • User Experience

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Could you build this?

Yes A macOS menu/dock launcher can be readily built in Swift/SwiftUI using standard macOS accessibility and windowing APIs, a standard task for modern AI coding tools.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 629 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #514 of 630 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Glide · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • Appz · ph · 2026-11-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • tvOS-Launcher · github · 2026-10-28 · 228 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Superdock · ph · 2026-09-25 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • ArcPad · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Flick — Option+Space for Mac · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • MacDock · github · 2026-11-06 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • DockThumb · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52

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