Turn your boring Dock into a pool of water. Apps float on top, music and a pomodoro timer soak in it — and the moment you zone out, your desktop becomes an aquarium.
Pick up your MacBook and tilt it — the water rushes to the lower side, courtesy of the motion sensor hiding inside. Completely unnecessary. Utterly irresistible.
Three little things macOS never got right, fixed. Every demo below is playable.
Click an app in the native Dock and every window floods forward. Here, thumbnails spread out first — pick one, and only that one surfaces. As intuitive as the Windows taskbar.
Hold ⌥ and press Tab to list every window on this desktop: Tab cycles forward, ⌥` goes back, release to switch. Feels exactly like Cmd+Tab — it just works on windows.
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Last weekA maximized window burying the dock is every Dock replacement's most awkward moment. Better Duck watches for maximized windows and trims them above the waterline — something even the veterans never bothered with.
Hover over Music or Spotify and the artwork, track, controls, and favorite button float out of the water — no need to stop what you're doing. While a song plays, the icon becomes the album art.
Focus for 25, rest for 5, long break every four rounds — the classic pomodoro method, built right into the Dock. When time's up, the duck jumps up to call you, notification included.
Idle for a few minutes and the water rises over your screen: the desktop shimmers behind it, icons drift free, the duck swims by, bubbles climb. Move the mouse and the water recedes — everything back in place.
They're alive: they breathe, blink, bob with the waves, and answer when you poke them. Besides the classic yellow duck, there's a girl lounging in a duck floatie.
Pinning, drag-to-reorder, unread badges, right-click menus — the basics come first; the water is the reward. Done with the native Dock? Hide it in one click, bring it back anytime.
Anything that lives on your desk all day had better not be annoying.
GPU-composited — the water never stops, your Mac barely notices. Measured on an M4 MacBook Air.
Video or presentation detected? The aquarium behaves itself.
Aquarium off by default on battery; rendering pauses under full-screen apps.
Permissions are a bonus, not a gate — anything missing degrades gracefully.
The free tier is a better-looking Dock — with a duck floating on it. Pro unlocks what a Dock could never do.
Permissions, privacy, battery — all answered in one place.
The duck is putting on the finishing touches — launch is close. Download and early-bird pricing will land right here.
Download it free and turn your desktop into water. Want to go deeper? Unlock Pro whenever you like.
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