---
name: DockDoor
subtitle: Hover the Dock, see your windows
date: 2026-04-19
category: interface
tags: [macos, dock, windows, open-source]
description: "Brings Windows-style live window previews to the macOS Dock, done with surprising restraint."
link: https://dockdoor.net/
---

import slide1 from '../../assets/reviews/dockdoor/alttab.mp4';
import slide2 from '../../assets/reviews/dockdoor/aeroShake.mp4';
import slide3 from '../../assets/reviews/dockdoor/clickToMinimize.mp4';

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    <figcaption>Hover the Dock to see live thumbnails of every window an app has open.</figcaption>
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    <figcaption>Shake-to-minimize: jiggle one window, the rest minimize out of the way.</figcaption>
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    <figcaption>Click an active Dock icon to minimize the front window.</figcaption>
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Hover a Dock icon. A floating panel slides up showing live thumbnails of every window that app has open, with titles and a close button on each. Click a thumbnail to jump to that window — no Mission Control, no clicking-then-guessing.

Also includes a window-level ⌘-Tab replacement (Apple's stops at app level), keyboard navigation through the previews, and configurable hover delays. Open source, MIT-licensed, free. The thumbnails update in real time and the animations are tuned to match macOS's own — a rare port that doesn't read as a port. macOS 13+.
