Updates

This release makes CoolDock easier to recover and troubleshoot, with more AI widgets and fewer problems when moving between Spaces and displays.

• Export Diagnostics saves a redacted support report locally. Nothing is uploaded, and it leaves out tokens, URLs, paths, account details, and personal content.
• A new Layout menu provides presets and fixed positions. Reset Layout can bring back a stuck or missing floating dock without removing its widgets or profiles.
• Added usage widgets for Cursor Personal, Antigravity, GLM / Z.ai, Grok, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Gemini API, and Perplexity.
• Claude and Codex usage states are clearer, with better connection, refresh, and cooldown feedback.
• Improved recovery after Spaces, Mission Control, fullscreen, Sidecar, and display identity changes. This release also fixes widget drag-and-drop, folder ordering, and stale running indicators.

This update is mostly about making CoolDock behave properly around windows and multiple displays.

• The new Screens pane supports One Display, selected Attached Displays, or a copy of CoolDock on every display. Physical displays are remembered across sleep, reconnects, and clamshell mode.
• Fixed layout now has six screen positions. Existing layouts carry over.
• Weather widgets can use a custom city without Location Services.
• Reserve Dock Space now reacts when windows open, zoom, tile, or restore. Also After Dragging controls whether manually placed windows move out of the dock area.
• Fixed repeated Claude Keychain prompts, corrected Codex usage windows, and reduced duplicate weather requests.

Our first follow-up to CoolDock 2 focuses on the issues people hit during migration and onboarding.

• Reduced the repeated Keychain prompts seen when moving from CoolDock 1 to CoolDock 2. CoolDock still reads only the items you approve, and your dock data stays on your Mac.
• Added encrypted local-file storage under Settings → Privacy for Macs where the login Keychain cannot be unlocked reliably. Keychain remains the recommended option.
• Permissions are now explained before macOS asks for them, and floating mode has a small handle that makes the dock easier to move.

CoolDock 1.9.4 was the bridge to 2.0.0: the first Appit Studio release after we acquired CoolDock from its original developer, Solt Wagner.

The cutover moved the app to Appit Studio’s licensing and update system. Solt worked with our team through the handover, and the things that mattered to existing users did not change:

• Existing licenses stay valid. There is nothing to repurchase.
• CoolDock data remains on your Mac, with no telemetry or usage analytics.
• Support and future updates now come from Appit Studio.

This update brings Cooldock even closer to a full native Dock replacement, with many customer requests, fixes, and improvements implemented:

• Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements

• More customization options

• Native-style right-click menus for apps, with all the important Dock options

• Folder colors — simply right-click any folder to customize it

• Improved folder windows with search, sorting and file type filters

• Multi-level folder navigation with breadcrumbs

• New Habit Tracker widget

• New System Temperature widget

• All currencies are now available in the Convert widget

• Many customer-requested features and improvements added

CoolDock v1.6 is here

• New Claude widget

• New Crypto widget

• New clock widget

• New Todo widget

• New Zoom Meetings widget

• New Window Manager for resizing and managing open app windows

• Bug fixes and improvements

Watch video here

• New Wallpaper widget
• Add spaces and separators
• Show running apps in the Dock
• Better app organization in Applications
• Create custom app folders
• Add apps to Favorites
• More bug fixes and improvements

Watch demo video here

CoolDock v1.3 is here 🚀

▶ Watch the update video on YouTube

• Create multiple Dock profiles
• New Liquid Glass style
• New widgets for Shopify, Supabase, GitHub, and more

Update now and make your Dock even more yours.

CoolDock v1.2 is here with new widgets, improvements, and a few important fixes.

This update adds a new set of powerful widgets for founders, developers, and makers, including:

• GitHub

• Resend

• Shopify

• Linear

• Dropbox

• Dub

• Supabase

• Plausible

• Dodo Payments

• Wallpapers

I also added a few custom wallpapers designed to look great with CoolDock’s glass-style widgets.

Alongside the new widgets, v1.2 includes several fixes and improvements to make CoolDock feel smoother, more reliable, and easier to use.

Watch demo video here

I’m excited to launch Cooldock — a smart second Dock for macOS with live widgets, app shortcuts, folders, quick actions, and everyday tools right beside your original Mac Dock.

▶ Watch the update video on YouTube

With Cooldock, you can keep music, todos, calendar events, weather, system stats, search, screenshots, files, bookmarks, converters, and more always within reach.

It’s built to make your Mac Dock more useful, more personal, and more productive.