Freeze
Dock apps open only when you double-click
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Pick the Dock apps you keep opening by mistake and freeze them. A single click on a frozen app is ignored. Open it on purpose with a double-click, a long press, or a modifier+click of your choice. The rest of your Dock works as usual. Menu bar app, macOS 13+, $4.99 one-time.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu bar app that ignores single clicks on selected Dock icons is a focused Swift utility built on standard event-tap and accessibility APIs, with no proprietary data or hardware needed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 569 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #300 of 570 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 354 days after the earliest competitor.
- DockTouchBar · github · 2026-09-26 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Dockish · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- DockLens · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- JumpDock · ph · 2026-10-21 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- PulseTiles · ph · 2026-10-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- DockThumb · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Panebird · ph · 2026-11-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Zap · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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