Your Dock's wasted side space, now full of widgets
If you don't hide your Dock, you've probably got wasted space sitting on either side of it. Docktor fills it with widgets you actually glance at: music, calendar, weather, system stats and more coming soon. No extra menu-bar icon fighting for room. No separate window to open. Just the stuff you check constantly, parked in space your Mac was already wasting. It also adds hover previews to your Dock — mouse over an app and see its open windows without clicking.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Peter — robotics engineer by day, Mac apps on nights and weekends.
docktor started as a dumb little itch: if you don't auto-hide your Dock, there's all this empty space on either side of it that just… does nothing. I wanted my calendar, weather, and now-playing right there with no extra menu-bar icon, no window to open. I also added Dock hover previews because clicking an icon just to see what's open always bugged me too and window level switching to cmd+tab.
It's completely free, notarized, no account, no tracking. I'm a solo dev and this is my nights-and-weekends project, so I genuinely read everything.
Two things I'd love your take on: (1) does it feel fast/native on your setup? and (2) which widget should I build next?
About docktor on Product Hunt
“Your Dock's wasted side space, now full of widgets”
docktor launched on Product Hunt on July 30th, 2026 and earned 102 upvotes and 8 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. If you don't hide your Dock, you've probably got wasted space sitting on either side of it. Docktor fills it with widgets you actually glance at: music, calendar, weather, system stats and more coming soon. No extra menu-bar icon fighting for room. No separate window to open. Just the stuff you check constantly, parked in space your Mac was already wasting. It also adds hover previews to your Dock — mouse over an app and see its open windows without clicking.
On the analytics side, docktor competes within Productivity, User Experience and Apple — topics that collectively have 1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how docktor performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted docktor?
docktor was hunted by Peter Sauer. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of docktor including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Peter Sauer