Taskabar 0.82 macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

Dock icons that behave like the taskbar.

One click on the already-active app minimizes its windows. Everything else in the Dock stays exactly as macOS intends.

Download Taskabar

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Dokumente

Klick auf das blaue Icon — die App ist aktiv, ihr Fenster ist offen.

What it does

One step less, nothing else.

Only the active app

If another app is in front, the click brings it forward as usual. Only clicking the already-active app minimizes.

All windows or just one

Choose whether the app's entire window set disappears into the Dock or only the frontmost one.

Hide instead of minimize

If you prefer speed, hide the app instead — no genie effect, no occupied Dock space.

Modifier keys stay off-limits

⌘-, ⌥-, ⌃- and ⇧-click as well as right-click go straight to the Dock, unchanged. The context menu and “Show in Finder” keep working.

Works for foreign toolkits too

Apps with their own window toolkit report their windows without the usual tagging. Taskabar recognizes them via a second path — provided they expose their windows to accessibility at all. If they don't, the click falls back to the macOS default.

Stays in the background

About 190 KB, no third-party libraries, practically no processor load when idle. No Dock icon, just a symbol in the menu bar.

Setup

Three steps, once.

  1. 01

    Open and drag

    Open the downloaded image and drag Taskabar into the folder.

  2. 02

    Launch

    On first launch, macOS asks for accessibility access. Without this permission, Taskabar can neither observe Dock clicks nor minimize windows.

  3. 03

    Allow

    System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility

If Taskabar doesn't appear there:

Under the hood

How it works.