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Work · October 17, 2026

CoolDock

CoolDock is an award-winning second Dock for macOS. It sits beside your original Dock, so nothing about your current setup changes. It gives you a live strip of widgets, apps, folders, and quick actions built for how you actually work. CoolDock brings music, todos, calendar event

CoolDock launched on October 17, 2026 with 88 votes, #175 of 3,080 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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CoolDock is a second Dock for macOS that sits alongside the original Dock without changing existing settings. It displays over 160 live widgets including music controls, to-do lists, calendar events, weather, system stats, and quick actions, along with apps and folders. Designed for Mac users who want quick access to frequently used information and tools, CoolDock integrates widgets for productivity and system monitoring into a single customizable interface.

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CoolDock adds a beautiful second Dock to your Mac with live widgets for music, todos, calendar events, weather, search, system stats, quick actions, and more.

CoolDock brings music, todos, events, weather, search, stats, quick actions, and more useful widgets into one beautiful live dock beside your original Mac Dock. Add live widgets, quick actions, apps, folders, search, stats, weather, calendars, reminders, and more into a beautiful second Dock beside your original Mac Dock. Amazing. Great job! I’ve replaced my default dock entirely already. This is the kind of dock Apple should have built! From apps and folders to weather, music, todos, files, stats, search, and quick actions. Open your favorite apps, organize folders, save bookmarks, search files, hold temporary files in File Shelf, access downloads, switch apps, and keep everything…from cooldock.app

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