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?
Really like the hover previews for Dock apps. Windows has had that forever and every time I switch back to my Mac I miss it. Pairing it with widgets in the dead space around the Dock is a clever combo, feels like two small annoyances solved in one app. Congrats on the launch!
Nice use of space nobody thinks about. What I'd want to know is what happens when the Dock grows, because it recentres every time an app opens and the side space shrinks with it, so the widgets either reflow or get clipped mid-glance. Same question when the Dock jumps to a second display.
Excited to see docktor live. Your Dock's wasted side space, now full of widgets is a compelling value proposition—best of luck today! 🚀
free, notarized, no account, solo dev reading everything. you make it easy to root for you!
honestly love the hover preview idea, that alone makes it worth a try. one thing though — would be great if the widgets could be resized or reordered, because depending on my screen setup the music player ends up way bigger than the weather and it looks unbalanced. small QoL thing but makes it feel more like my setup
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.
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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.
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