Comparison

ExtraDock vs Taskbar Mac App Comparison

The Mac taskbar brings the Windows-style taskbar to macOS. Taskbar by lawand replaces your Dock with a bar that stretches across all your screens, with window previews and a start menu.

ExtraDock takes a different approach: it works alongside the default macOS Dock, letting you replicate the Dock across all your screens and add custom docks of your own.

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ExtraDock giving macOS a taskbar-style dock on every screen

Two different approaches

Taskbar · Windows style

A Taskbar on Your Mac

Taskbar by lawand recreates the Windows taskbar on macOS, and leans into window management: switch between an app's windows, hover for thumbnails, group windows together, and launch from a start menu.

If you came from Windows, Taskbar brings back that familiar layout.

The Taskbar app on macOS showing a Windows-style taskbar and an open start menu with pinned and recent apps
Native · macOS style

Docks That Feel Like Home

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 · Effects · icons · colors

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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Workflow · Drag and drop

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

Taskbar vs ExtraDock at a glance

We pulled Taskbar's capabilities from its own feature list, so the table reflects what both apps actually do. Where you see a dash, the two approaches simply went different ways.

Capability ExtraDock Taskbar
Works alongside the native Dock Yes No
Multiple docks on one screen Yes No
A dock on every screen Yes Yes
Switch between an app's windows Yes Yes
Window previews Yes Yes
Window grouping No Yes
Spaces awareness Yes Yes
Start menu No Yes
Dock widgets Yes No
Custom app icons Yes No
Dock area respected by windows Yes Yes
Actively developed Yes Yes
Homebrew install 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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