Replace the macOS Dock.

Open Dockspace and the bar is there, in the Dock’s place, with the apps from your Dock. Dockspace never changes the apps in the macOS Dock itself.

The setting is still marked beta. If you chose another place, turn it back on:

1. Open Dockspace’s Settings › Dock.
2. In Place the bar, choose Replace the Dock.
3. Read the note and click Replace the Dock. Dockspace copies the apps from your Dock, then hides the macOS Dock.

Your apps from the Dock, the apps that run now and the Trash, with your widgets between them.

On macOS 26 Tahoe the bar is clear Liquid Glass, like the system Dock, and each tile is frosted glass with a one-pixel rim. Tiles come in four sizes on one 56-point height.

A new bar stays on screen. It covers the bottom of large windows, because macOS keeps that room only for its own Dock. To hide it like the Dock, turn on Automatically hide and show the Dock in Settings › Dock, or press ⌥⌘D. Then the bar comes up when the pointer reaches the bottom edge of the screen.

Over a full-screen app the bar stays down. Buddy’s notes, the alarm, the timer, Stand Up and Posture come as one small pill at the bottom of the screen instead.

In Settings › Dock, choose Beside the Dock or Above the Dock. Or quit Dockspace. Either way, the macOS Dock comes back. Dockspace never changes the apps in your Dock: it only hides the Dock, and it saves your Dock’s own hiding settings to put them back.

Choose Beside the Dock in Settings › Dock. The widgets fill the empty room left and right of the macOS Dock, in its row, so the bar takes no space. If they do not fit, the bar goes above the Dock. See the widgets.

To keep both out of sight, turn on Automatically hide and show the Dock in macOS System Settings › Desktop & Dock, and let the Dockspace bar hide too. ⌃⌥⌘D shows the bar.

You can use Dockspace as a free Mac Dock replacement for as long as you like. The free version includes Replace the Dock and ten widgets that stay free: Dock Buddy, Disk Doctor, Clock, Date, Weather, CPU, Battery, the clipboard shelf, Folders and the Wallpaper tile — keeping live stats in the Dock row as a clean iStat Menus alternative instead of hiding icons behind the MacBook notch.

Pro unlocks the remaining widgets, the Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity limits, the AI agents board, Screen Notes, Quick Translate and display profiles. Try the vertical side Dock, or compare options on best macOS Dock replacements, Dockspace vs CoolDock and Dockspace vs uBar.

macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple silicon or Intel. Dockspace is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple. It is free to start. If something looks wrong, write to contact@jber.dev.