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DockGroups - declutter your Dock, control your workflow

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Hey r/macapps**. A month ago I posted DockGroups here. Here's what a month actually looked like.** dockgroups.com | Demo Last month the problem was Dock clutter. This month the problem was mine: I told this sub feedback shapes releases, so now I owe you the receipts. Here's what's behind the curtain: 50 Pro licenses sold. Not quit-your-job money, but 50 people paid for a Dock utility from a stranger on Reddit, which still feels a bit surreal. Zero refunds. I'll take that over any download stat. Free downloads: no idea. I genuinely don't track them. The app only phones home for anonymous update checks (with an off switch), so the free user count is a mystery to me by design. I'm okay with that trade. The 10 promo seats went within the first few days — fast enough that I quietly added a few more when people kept asking. What shipped because of you: Drag & drop reordering — arrange apps within a group instead of being stuck with add-order. Right-click context menus on apps — the same options you'd expect from the real Dock, now inside groups. Add apps from the group itself — no more round-trip to the settings window just to add one app. Coming soon (also your fault): custom backgrounds for standalone Dock icons, and Siri integration — "open my work group" without touching anything. Comparison: Nothing to retract from last time (original post). vs Stacks: not tied to real folders on disk, and you can launch or close a whole group at once. vs DockPops / FolderDock: those are file-first. They let you put documents and folders in groups, browse them, Quick Look them. DockGroups doesn't do files at all, on purpose. What you get instead is the session stuff: Close All, running indicators, Most Used, the usage-based suggestions, global hotkeys. Pick based on which problem you actually have. (One nice difference: Open All and Close All are in my free tier.) vs uBar / ActiveDock: those replace the Dock. DockGroups doesn't, so there's nothing to break or carefully uninstall. vs Raycast / Alfred: different mental model. Those are search-first, this is for people who launch from the Dock. I use Raycast alongside it daily. Pricing: Unchanged. Free: 2 groups, unlimited apps per group, Most Used, Open/Close All, all the shortcuts. Pro is $9.99 one-time for unlimited groups and the standalone Dock icons. No subscription, and no caps that come back after you've paid. This time, instead of free seats: 30% off Pro with code E7BU0F2Z, valid for the first 50 uses. Free seats vanish in hours and mostly reward whoever refreshes fastest — a discount everyone can use felt fairer. Fire away in the comments. Last month's thread rewrote half my roadmap.

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u/Frosty-Lettuce-9886

The part I’d keep leaning into is the session behaviour rather than the visual grouping—Open All, Close All and running-state indicators are the clearest difference from Stacks. One question: are groups stored locally and exportable? For a workflow tool, being able to back up or move a setup to another Mac would matter more to me than cloud sync.

u/alx_rajOPReply

They are stored locally but not exportable. This sounds like a nice addition. Thanks.

u/alx_rajOPReply

Hi u/Frosty-Lettuce-9886. Export/import feature is now available in v1.10.0. Thank you very much for the feedback.

u/kodyjacobs

It looks pretty good. I'm currently testing out DockPops and 2 visual aspects that yours don't seem to have (that I could find) that I think are make a real difference. Allow dictating the size of the popup (by column/row)... I don't want a massive popup if I've only got 3 apps in it. Option to centre the popup above the icon being clicked (rather than just middle of the dock) Option to turn off titles - I really don't need the word Steam or Cyberpunk 2077 below the very recognisable icons

u/alx_rajOPReply

Thank you for your feedback. I will definitely put those to my todo list.

u/alx_rajOPReply

Hi u/kodyjacobs, your suggestions are now included in v1.10.0. Thank you very much for the feedback.

u/TelephoneWooden

Zero refunds is probably the most impressive stat in this post. Congrats! Out of curiosity, what's the most requested feature now that people are actually using it day to day?

u/alx_rajOPReply

Some would argue that this is not good, but I decided not to track people’s usage. I wanted to have it very barebones, in terms of features, so that it acts like a plugin to native Dock, plus i wanted it privacy focused. With those two in mind, it did not make sense to track(at least to me) more than just a current version and OS version.

u/wolfgang263

before purchasing, I wanted to know: when an app is in a group, does that mean it won't appear separately in the Dock? For example, if Mail is in the Work group and I have that group in the Dock, will the Mail icon still appear separately on the Dock?

u/alx_rajOPReply

It does not. Group holds a shortcut of the app, so you decide whether to have original still in the dock or not.

u/wolfgang263Reply

bit confused. If the app is running and I have it in the group, will it also show separately in the Dock? if i don't pin the app to the dock and the ap s running

u/seriesoftubes666

Is there a way to customize the folder icon by providing my own icon/image files? or is it limited to system emojis

u/jacka_for-researchReply

Yes. Forever. Copy an image, select the folder you want to add an icon to, Get Info on that folder, paste the image into the icon area.

u/seriesoftubes666Reply

I'm talking about the Groups inside of DockGroups. I don't see a way to get info, I just see i can represent it as an Emoji or App Grid. I want the dock Icon for the group to be my custom image, not emoji or app grid