A tiny pixel friend that lives on your Mac's Dock. Click an app and watch it celebrate.
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A tiny pixel friend that lives on your Mac's Dock. Click an app and watch it celebrate.
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Open DockCompanion.zip, drag the app to Applications and open it. The first time, your Mac asks if you want to open an app from the internet: click Open.
Chrome blocked it? Open Chrome's download list, click the file and choose Download suspicious file. It's flagged only because the app is new.
It takes a minute. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so your Mac only asks once if you want to open something you downloaded.
Your character code. Keep it to bring your character back on another Mac.
Yes. The app only draws your character in a transparent window above the Dock. It doesn't read your files, doesn't go online and doesn't collect anything.
Chrome flags files that few people have downloaded yet, especially from new sites. It doesn't mean it found anything. Open Chrome's download list, click the file and choose Download suspicious file. Or download it with Safari, which doesn't show this message.
Some company Macs only run apps approved by their IT team. If the app doesn't open, ask your IT team before installing.
macOS asks once about every app downloaded from the internet. Dock Companion is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, which means Apple checked it for malicious software. Click Open and it won't ask again.
Barely. When your character stands still, the app uses 0% CPU. While it walks, it stays around 1–2%.
No. Clicks go straight through to the Dock. It only reacts when you click the character itself.
Yes. On a side Dock it walks along the wall. With auto-hide on, it walks along the edge of the screen and hops up when the Dock appears.
Without permission, the app estimates your Dock's size and keeps a small margin. From the menu bar, turn on "Use exact Dock position" and allow the app under Accessibility.
Click your character's head in the menu bar and turn on "Open at login".
Make a new one here and click Install on Mac again. It replaces the previous one.
Quit from the menu bar icon. To uninstall, drag the app from Applications to the Trash.
Designer · São Paulo
Hey! I'm a designer based in São Paulo. Lately I've been venturing into AI and creative coding, mostly to see how quickly an idea can turn into something real.
Dock Companion started as a personal project: a little guy I made to keep me company on my own Dock. My friends liked him so much they pushed me to share him with the world, so here he is. Now you can make your own.
Dock Companion is a personal project, built with Claude Code.