A vertical side Dock, with live widgets.
Every Mac screen is wider than it is tall. Moving your Dock and widgets to the left or right edge gives code editors, browsers and timelines their full vertical height — while keeping your apps, AI limits and live stats one glance away.
Compact at rest, readable on hover
Most widget bars break down on the side of the screen: either they stay wide and eat a thick slice of your workspace, or they shrink every widget into tiny unreadable icons.
Dockspace’s Left and Right side dock attaches flush against the screen bezel as a compact single-cell column. Move the pointer onto any widget and only that tile smoothly expands to show its full detail, with the sculpted Liquid Glass border wrapping around the expanded tile in frame-by-frame lockstep. Slide up or down across adjacent widgets and the glass steps cleanly from tile to tile.
Expands on its own when something needs you
You do not have to hover to catch timely alerts. When a water reminder comes due, a Focus session ends, an upcoming meeting or stand-up break approaches, or an AI coding agent pauses for your input, that single tile expands out of the vertical column on its own — then tucks cleanly back into one cell as soon as you act.
Resize any widget to fit your column
Right-click any widget and choose Size, or drag its corner handle inside Customize Dock, to set its width (1 to 4 columns) and height (1 or 2 rows). Keep Clock, CPU and Battery compact — a notch-free iStat Menus alternative that never clips behind the MacBook camera housing — while giving Claude Usage, Calendar or Weather room to breathe when expanded.
Built for ultrawide and multi-monitor desks
On a 27-inch, 32-inch or 21:9 ultrawide monitor, vertical pixels remain scarce while horizontal space sits idle at the far left and right edges. Pinning a vertical widget bar to the bezel keeps terminal panes, timelines and side-by-side diffs tall from top to bottom without moving your eyes across half a metre of glass.
With Display profiles (Pro), your MacBook can run a minimal auto-hiding bottom bar on the road and switch by itself to a full vertical side Dock the moment you connect your desk display. You can also pin Laptop, Desk or Auto anytime from the menu bar icon.
Apps, Trash and 174 widgets in one edge bar
With Replace the Dock on, your pinned macOS Dock apps, running apps and the Trash live in the same vertical Liquid Glass column as your widgets. Turn off “Show apps on the bar” if you want a pure vertical widget strip while keeping Apple’s Dock elsewhere, or compare how edge bars work across all 7 macOS Dock replacements.
Free to start on macOS 14 Sonoma or later (Apple silicon and Intel) with ten widgets that stay free forever, including CPU, Battery, Weather, Clock, Clipboard and Disk Doctor. Pro unlocks all 174 widgets, AI quotas and display profiles from $11.99/year or $19.99 once (14-day refund).
Common questions
- How do I move Dockspace to the left or right side of my Mac screen?
- Open Dockspace Settings › Dock and set Edge to Left or Right. The bar attaches flush to the screen bezel and automatically formats your apps and widgets into a vertical column.
- How do wide widgets fit inside a narrow vertical side Dock?
- At rest, the side Dock stays a compact 1-cell column so it barely uses horizontal width. When your pointer rests on a widget, only that tile expands smoothly while the sculpted Liquid Glass border wraps around it in frame-by-frame lockstep.
- What happens when a timer, reminder or AI coding agent needs my attention?
- Since v1.1.12, side-dock tiles also expand on their own when something needs you — a water reminder, an ended Focus phase, an upcoming break or meeting, or a coding agent waiting for input — and tuck back into a single column once you act.
- Can I use a vertical side Dock on my monitor and a bottom Dock on my MacBook?
- Yes, with Pro display profiles. Create one profile for your built-in MacBook display and another for your external monitor, and Dockspace switches layouts automatically when you plug in or unplug.
Free to start. Yours to keep.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel. Download the disk image and try ten widgets free forever, or unlock all 174 with Pro.