Dock & launcher

DragThang

The classic Mac launcher,
floating free again.

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Version 1.0 · macOS 26 Tahoe or later · 600 KB zip

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Safari
✉
Mail
✎
Notes
♫
Music
⚒
Xcode
›_
Terminal
✿
Photos
▰
Projects
18:42
Clock
23%
CPU
514G
Free
🗑
Trash
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⚒
›_
✉
♫
Clippings
📄 Q3-report-final.pdf
“Thanks, talk soon! — J”
https://developer.apple.com/documentation
📁 Screenshots
A launcher dock with tabs and docklets, the Application Dock, and the Clippings tray, all floating on the desktop.

Everything, one click away.

DragThang brings back floating docks of anything you like, with tabs, live docklets and global hotkeys, all in translucent Tahoe materials.

Launcher docks

Tiles for apps, files, folders and URLs. Drag anything from Finder onto a dock to add it.

Tabs

Give each dock several named pages. Add, rename and delete them from the tab strip.

Docklets

A clock, disk-space readout, CPU meter, a Trash slot you can drop files on, and separators.

Application Dock

A live second Dock of running apps. Click to switch, right-click to hide, quit or reveal.

Clippings

Drop text or files to stash them. Click text to copy it back, or drag files back out.

Global hotkeys

Give each dock its own key combination to show or hide it from anywhere.

Every dock, just so.

Preferences preview every change live on the dock you’re editing.

Layout

Columns
4
Icon size
48 pt
Corner radius
14 pt
Show item labels

Background

Tint
Automatic
Opacity
70%

Behavior

Show / hide shortcut
⌃⌥Space
Auto-hide againstSlides away and reappears when you hover that edge.
Left edge
Launch at Login

Right-click any item to give it a custom icon. The menu bar icon toggles docks, creates new ones and opens Preferences.

Tech specs

Requirements
macOS 26 Tahoe or later
Storage
~/Library/Application Support/DragThang/docks.json
Version
1.0 · unsigned development build
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DragThang.zip · 600 KB

Get DragThang.

Requires macOS 26 Tahoe. Control-click the app and choose Open the first time.

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