---
name: Folder Peek
subtitle: The Dock folder behavior macOS forgot to ship
date: 2026-03-26
category: interface
tags: [macos, dock, files, finder]
description: "Pin folders to the menu bar with rich previews, fuzzy search, and quick actions — a small fix for a daily annoyance."
link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/folder-peek/id6450453695
linkText: Visit in App Store
---

import { Image } from 'astro:assets';
import slide1 from '../../assets/reviews/folder-peek/screenshot.png';
import slide2 from '../../assets/reviews/folder-peek/screenshot-2.png';
import slide3 from '../../assets/reviews/folder-peek/screenshot-3.png';

<div class="carousel">
  <figure id="s1">
    <Image src={slide1} alt="Pinned folders open as menu-bar panels with thumbnails and search." />
    <figcaption>Pinned folders open as menu-bar panels with thumbnails and search.</figcaption>
  </figure>
  <figure id="s2">
    <Image src={slide2} alt="Quick Look-style preview without leaving the menu." />
    <figcaption>Quick Look-style preview without leaving the menu.</figcaption>
  </figure>
  <figure id="s3">
    <Image src={slide3} alt="Configurable display options." />
    <figcaption>Configurable display options.</figcaption>
  </figure>
</div>

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Pin folders to the macOS menu bar with the niceties Dock stacks have always lacked: file thumbnails, Quick Look on hover, fuzzy search across the directory, and quick actions (reveal in Finder, copy path, move, share) on each row. Multiple pinned folders means the menu bar doubles as a bookmark bar for *places on disk* — Downloads, the active project, the screenshots folder, that one git repo you keep poking at.

Not a Finder replacement, just a 200-pixel-wide window into a folder you check often. macOS only, one-time purchase via the App Store.
