EasyDock

EasyDock brings a few habits people miss from Windows to the Mac and keeps a handful of system tools in one place, most of them a click away in the menu bar. It is free and open source under the MIT license.

Key features

• Click a Dock icon to minimize: clicking the icon of the app you are using minimizes its windows and brings forward the app you used before it; the next click brings them all back, like the Windows taskbar. Hiding the app instead is an option, and some apps can keep the usual click
• A window switcher on ⌘Tab: every window with a picture and its title, most recently used first, including minimized windows and windows on other Spaces. A quick ⌘Tab goes back to the previous window; hold ⌘ to see the list, Tab and the arrows to move, Esc to cancel
• Windows from every desktop or only the current one; ⌥Tab can be chosen instead, which leaves the system's ⌘Tab alone
• Clipboard history: text, rich text, images and files, searchable, with pinned items. Open it from the menu bar or with ⌘⇧V next to the pointer; Return pastes into the app in front, ⌥Return pastes plain text
• System: CPU with its performance and efficiency cores, GPU, memory, disks, battery and its health, temperatures and network, charts of the last hour or day, and every app and process with Quit and Force Quit, always asked first. Alerts when the Mac runs hot or the battery runs low, and when memory runs short, naming the heaviest apps you aren't using
• Quit unused apps: apps you choose are quit once they haven't been in front for 15 minutes to 4 hours, the normal way, so unsaved work asks first
• Cleanup: caches and build leftovers, a large files scan, old items in Downloads, and an uninstaller that lists every app with its size and when it was last opened, and removes several at once with what they left in your Library. It notices an app you move to the Trash and finds what apps removed long ago left behind. Everything is previewed first and goes to the Trash; caches can be cleaned on a schedule
• Background Items: the launch agents and daemons apps installed, with their app, whether they run and their memory. Your own can be switched off, and leftovers of removed apps go to the Trash
• Always on Top: ⌃⌥T keeps the window you are using above the others, as PowerToys does on Windows. EasyDock shows a live copy of it while you work in another window; click the copy to use the window. Up to three windows
• Color Picker: ⌃⌥C picks a color anywhere on screen, converts it to sRGB and copies it as HEX, RGB, HSL, SwiftUI or NSColor; hold Shift to keep picking. Recent and pinned colors stay in the menu bar panel; named palettes copy as CSS variables, JSON, a SwiftUI extension or Tailwind 4, and a contrast check gives the WCAG ratio
• Drop Zone: a shelf above every window for files, pictures, links and text while you go to where they belong. Shake a file as you drag it, drag it onto the notch, or press ⌃⌥Z; drag items out one by one or all at once
• Quick Convert: from Finder's right-click menu or the Drop Zone, pictures to WebP, AVIF, HEIC, JPEG or PNG at the size you choose, and videos to MP4, H.264 or HEVC, or their sound to M4A. Each result is a new file next to the original
• Extract: RAR, 7z and the other archives macOS can't open, with a password or split into parts, from a double-click, Finder's right-click menu or the Drop Zone; nothing is replaced
• Keep Awake: keeps the Mac awake for 15 minutes to 4 hours or until you turn it off, or while the apps you choose are open, with ⌃⌥A or a click in the menu bar. The display can be left to sleep, it stops on battery at a level you choose, and a session carries on when EasyDock starts again on its own
• A menu bar panel with a switch for each feature, the clipboard history, the Mac's vitals and busiest apps, cleanup, the process list and the tools, opened from the menu bar or with ⌃⌥D
• Light, dark or system appearance, English and Vietnamese, Sparkle updates

Private by design

• No account, no telemetry, no analytics. The only network request is the update check to updates.dangkhoabach.vn, which can be turned off
• Every clipboard item is sealed with AES-GCM under a key in your login Keychain, and deleted items are overwritten. Clearing the history deletes the key too
• Copies that password managers mark as concealed are never recorded, and neither is anything copied in the apps you exclude (KeyCellar, Keychain Access, Passwords, 1Password and Bitwarden from the start)
• Window pictures are kept in memory only, never written to disk
• Archives are unpacked by 7-Zip in a sandbox, and what comes out keeps the archive's quarantine

Requirements and limits

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple Silicon or Intel
• Accessibility for the Dock click, the window switcher, pasting and Always on Top; Screen Recording for window pictures and the copy of a pinned window. Without them those features stay off and the rest works
• With Stage Manager on, the Dock click is left to macOS, and the switcher and a pinned window's copy show windows as they were last seen
• With the lid closed on battery and no external display, the Mac sleeps even with Keep Awake on
• The Trash is measured, and emptied from EasyDock, only with Full Disk Access; without it, Cleanup says so and asks Finder to empty it
• Background Items switches off only your own launch agents; the others are switched in System Settings › Login Items
• ⌘⇧V is also "paste and match style" in some apps; the shortcut can be changed in Settings

Good to know

• EasyDock turns the system's ⌘Tab off only while its switcher replaces it, and gives it back when it quits, even if it is force quit, and while you type in a password field
• The app is signed with an Apple Development certificate and not notarized: open it the first time from System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway
• The licenses of GRDB, Sparkle, libwebp and 7-Zip are in Settings › Third-Party Software