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JumpDock
One-click menu bar access to the settings macOS buries
Every Mac setting is three clicks away and the one you want is always the third. JumpDock puts them in your menu bar: privacy sections, settings panes, utilities, your own apps and folders. Including the Gatekeeper setting macOS gives no direct link to. And for audio, every output and microphone gets its own volume slider and mute, acting on that device whether or not it's the current one. Scroll over a device's menu bar icon to change its level.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I build small Mac utilities, and JumpDock came out of one specific irritation.
There is a setting on macOS called "Allow applications from" — the Gatekeeper one, the thing you need when your Mac refuses to open an app you just downloaded. It lives at the very bottom of a long Privacy & Security pane, and macOS gives it no direct link. Most settings panes can be opened from a URL; that section publishes no anchor, so nothing can address it. Every set of instructions for it, Apple's own included, ends with the words "scroll down".
So the first version of JumpDock was one menu bar icon that opened the pane and scrolled to the setting. That is still the shortcut you get free, forever.
It has grown since. There are 36 built-in destinations now — privacy sections, settings panes, utilities, folders — and it checks each one against your Mac, so it never offers you something your system does not have. You can point a shortcut at any app, document or folder, put several behind one icon to make a menu, give things colours and keyboard shortcuts, and back the whole arrangement up to move it to another Mac.
The feature I did not expect to care about most: macOS gives you one volume control and it follows whatever you are currently listening through. If you have monitors, headphones and an interface, there is no way to turn one down without switching to it first. JumpDock gives every output its own slider and mute, each acting on that device whether or not it is the current output. Any device can also have its own menu bar icon: scroll or swipe over it to set the level, Option-click to mute. Microphones get the same sliders and icons, and an icon turns into its slashed twin when muted. I do audio work and I use this every day.
On permissions, because I would want to know: exactly one shortcut needs Accessibility access — the Gatekeeper one, because scrolling that pane is the only way there. Everything else is a plain link or an app launch and asks for nothing. Turn that one off and the app needs no permission at all. The free version never makes a network connection. No account, no ads, no tracking.
One shortcut free forever. $4.99 one-time for the rest, no subscription, one key covers every Mac you own.
I would genuinely like to know: which macOS setting do you re-find from scratch every single time? If it is not in the 36, I want to add it.
About JumpDock on Product Hunt
“One-click menu bar access to the settings macOS buries”
JumpDock was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #111 on the daily leaderboard. Every Mac setting is three clicks away and the one you want is always the third. JumpDock puts them in your menu bar: privacy sections, settings panes, utilities, your own apps and folders. Including the Gatekeeper setting macOS gives no direct link to. And for audio, every output and microphone gets its own volume slider and mute, acting on that device whether or not it's the current one. Scroll over a device's menu bar icon to change its level.
On the analytics side, JumpDock competes within Mac, Menu Bar Apps and Audio — topics that collectively have 118.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how JumpDock performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted JumpDock?
JumpDock was hunted by Phillip Fuller. 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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