Open Doc
An open-source Mac dock with app folders and widgets
Details
- External ID
- 1258408
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Open Doc
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Open Source, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Open Doc is a free, native macOS dock. Group apps into folders, keep separate docks for work and personal projects, and add clocks, focus timers, notes, checklists, and system stats. Build custom widgets with web values and JavaScript, or configure them through an agent-friendly CLI. Local data, no analytics, MIT licensed. For Apple silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 14+.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS utilities and system tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source mac dock alternative with folders and widgets
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Creating a standard macOS utility is feasible, but replacing/overriding the native macOS Dock, integrating deep system window management APIs, and running custom desktop widgets requires non-trivial low-level macOS system programming.
What it would actually take: The app requires deep macOS systems development using Swift, AppKit, and undocumented CoreGraphics/Accessibility APIs to handle multi-display workspace events, hide the native Dock, and position floating borderless windows at specific window levels. It needs a secure plugin architecture (JavaScriptCore / sandboxed webviews) for widgets and a daemon/CLI bridge communicating via IPC (Mach ports or Unix domain sockets). Builders need solid native macOS systems engineering expertise beyond high-level vibe coding.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 182 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #113 of 183 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
- DockAlly · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- DocTabs · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Superdock · ph · 2026-09-25 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- lumabar · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- DockFix 5.0 · ph · 2026-09-12 · 99 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Open-source tool to generate OpenAPI docs from your code · hn · 2025-11-20 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Launch Station · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps · hn · 2026-05-21 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a workflow automation tool for Real estate yet.