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ExtraDock vs DockFix Mac App Comparison

The DockFix Mac app takes over the macOS dock entirely, replacing it with a custom dock you style with new icons, colors, and more extra features.

ExtraDock can also be a complete dock replacement, preserving Apple's aesthetics while improving functionality. Mirror your dock onto every monitor. Add widgets. Customize it down to the last detail.

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ExtraDock customizing the Mac dock, an alternative to DockFix

How they compare

DockFix

About DockFix

DockFix is a macOS dock customization app that replaces the native dock with a custom one.

It lets you set custom app icons and folder shortcuts.

It also offers ready-made styling presets modeled on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

The DockFix Mac app showing a customized dock
Native

About ExtraDock

ExtraDock stays with the Mac aesthetic: floating docks with rounded corners, translucency, and icons that look at home next to the native Dock.

Replicate the Dock across your screens or add custom docks of your own. Everything behaves the way macOS taught you.

Three ExtraDock docks with native macOS styling: a vertical sidebar, a folder dock, and a bottom dock with widgets
Style

Personalize the Look, Keep the Feel

No two docks have to look alike. Each one has its own colors, effects, borders, opacity, and icons.

Swap app icons, tint a dock to match your wallpaper, or give every project its own look. All of it stays within the macOS aesthetic.

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Extremely Customizable

Customize to your heart's content. There are no limits.

This dock's gone fully transparent, with custom abstract icons picked to match the wallpaper behind them.

And that's just one look out of endless possibilities.

See how to customize the Mac dock
A fully transparent ExtraDock dock (0% opacity) with custom abstract app icons matching an abstract painted wallpaper
Credits to Andreshows, Author of the Dock Obsession series. Read the post
Workflow

Added Quality of Life

ExtraDock is full of small quality of life features designed to improve your workflow:

  • IP widget: your current IP, right in the dock. VPN users will get it
  • Folder Stack: keeps a set of folders behind one dock icon
  • Drag and drop: drop a file on a dock folder and it lands there
  • Shelf: a temporary spot for files you'll need again in a minute
  • Collapse: the whole dock shrinks to one button until you open it
Dragging files into a folder and onto an app inside an ExtraDock dock

DockFix vs ExtraDock at a glance

On features, the two are close. What sets them apart is mostly customization and personal preference. A dash below just means the two took different routes, not that something's missing.

Capability ExtraDock DockFix
Works alongside the default macOS dock Yes No
Multiple docks on one screen Yes No
Supports different OS styling (Windows / Linux) No Yes
Custom app icons Yes Yes
Folder shortcuts Yes Yes
Temporary file shelf Yes Yes
Windows respect the dock area Yes Yes
A dock on every screen Yes Yes
Dock widgets Yes Yes
Actively developed Yes Yes
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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about ExtraDock.

ExtraDock gives you multiple lightweight docks that you can pin anywhere across your screens. Use it as an add-on to your native Dock, or go all-in and replace it entirely — it's up to you.
Yes. ExtraDock works independently of the native Dock, so you can use both side by side or hide the native Dock and let ExtraDock take over. It's designed to fit however you work.
ExtraDock supports macOS 12 and later, including macOS 26 Tahoe.
Yes. ExtraDock has a setting that ensures resized and maximized windows respect your docks and won't cover them.
Yes. You can choose from a variety of both visual and behavioral customizations — colors, effects, opacity, borders, custom app icons, as well as auto hide/show, hide on full screen, and more.
Partially. macOS does not provide a way to read badges for Apple apps such as Mail and Messages, so those cannot be shown. Third-party apps like Slack and WhatsApp work as expected.
Yes, with limitations. ExtraDock docks can be attached to a specific screen, so they appear when that screen connects and hide when it disconnects. This relies on macOS identifying each display consistently. DisplayLink monitors and displays connected through docking stations or daisy chains can behave inconsistently, especially after sleep or replugging, which can affect screen recognition.
Live Dock mirrors your native macOS Dock on any screen, either your full Dock or just running apps. Dock Awareness shows only the apps running in your current Space and updates as you switch. Both update dynamically.
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