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ExtraDock vs Sidebar Mac App Comparison

The Sidebar Mac app brings a Windows-style taskbar to macOS. It replaces your Dock with a panel that extends to all your screens, with window previews and a start menu.

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

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Two different approaches

Sidebar · Windows style

A Taskbar on Your Mac

Sidebar recreates the Windows taskbar experience on macOS: window previews, a start menu, and a panel that stretches edge to edge.

If you came from Windows and miss that workflow, Sidebar will feel like home. Some people just like the nostalgia.

A Windows 10 desktop with the classic edge-to-edge taskbar

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.

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

Sidebar vs ExtraDock at a glance

We pulled Sidebar'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	Sidebar
Works alongside the native Dock	Yes	No
Multiple docks on one screen	Yes	No
Start menu	No	Yes
Multimedia controls	No	Yes
Extends to all your screens	Yes	Yes
Window previews	Yes	Yes
Dock area respected by windows	Yes	Yes
Custom app icons	Yes	Yes
Dock widgets	Yes	Yes
Actively developed	Yes	Yes
Pricing	From €9.99	From €12.50

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ExtraBar lets you build a menu bar around your actions.

DockFlow lets you create, switch, and manage Dock presets for different tasks.

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ExtraBar lets you build a menu bar around your actions.

DockFlow lets you create, switch, and manage Dock presets for different tasks.

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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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ExtraDock vs Sidebar Mac App Comparison