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Iwan Dock
Floating app panels to replace your Dock & Launchpad
Your Mac apps live in floating panels you arrange, lock, and summon on demand — grouped by project, client, or mood. Click an app and only your last window comes forward, never a pile of others. Native, sandboxed, no account. Free, with a $4.99 Pro unlock.
A launcher for people who hate launchers — which is to say, I built this for myself.
I quietly hate app launchers. The Dock grows into a mile-long cluttered strip, Launchpad buries everything under a full-screen grid, and Spotlight only helps if I already remember the app's name. I wanted something calmer: a few small floating panels, each holding just the apps for one part of my day — one for client work, one for writing, one for the things I only touch on weekends. I lock them where I want them and summon them with a keystroke.
The piece I'm most attached to is small but it changed how I work: when you click an app, Iwan brings forward only the window you were last in — not every window that app has open. So opening a browser doesn't bury the doc you were writing under six other windows.
It's native AppKit, sandboxed and signed — no account, no sign-in, no analytics, nothing phoning home. Free to use, with a one-time $4.99 Pro unlock (no subscription).
I'd love honest feedback — especially on whether the panel-per-context idea clicks for you or feels like overhead, and what it'd actually take to get you off the Dock. Happy to answer anything about how it's built or where it's headed.
About Iwan Dock on Product Hunt
“Floating app panels to replace your Dock & Launchpad”
Iwan Dock was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 11 upvotes and 8 comments, placing #43 on the daily leaderboard. Your Mac apps live in floating panels you arrange, lock, and summon on demand — grouped by project, client, or mood. Click an app and only your last window comes forward, never a pile of others. Native, sandboxed, no account. Free, with a $4.99 Pro unlock.
On the analytics side, Iwan Dock competes within Mac, Productivity and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 771.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Iwan Dock performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Iwan Dock ?
Iwan Dock was hunted by Jamal. 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.
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