macOS Utility
Your Dock, Your Way
App Palette is a beautiful dock replacement that turns your app launcher into something personal. Organize your favorite apps into themed collections, launch anything with keyboard shortcuts, and make your Mac truly yours.
$2.99 — one-time purchase, no subscription
Features
Organization, speed, and personality the built-in Dock doesn't have.
Group your apps by context — Work, Creative, Personal, Gaming — and switch between them instantly. Each collection gets its own look and shortcuts.
Choose from 13 hand-crafted palette backgrounds. Each collection can have its own theme, icon, and accent color. Make every context feel different.
Assign A-Z shortcuts to your apps. Press a key to launch, Shift to go fullscreen. One global hotkey summons your palette from anywhere.
Rearrange apps freely on the palette. Move them between collections by dragging. Hold Option to copy instead. Enable Snap to Grid for a tidy layout.
Scale your app icons from 0.5x to 2x. Make them big and bold or small and compact — whatever fits your workflow.
App Palette doesn't collect any data. Fully sandboxed, privacy-respecting, and App Store approved. Your apps, your business.
See It in Action
Right-click any app to assign a keyboard shortcut, or use the menu bar for quick access to every app in your collection.
Right-click to assign A-Z keyboard shortcuts to any app
Access every app from the menu bar — always one click away
Customization
13 built-in themes so every collection feels just right.
Speed
Everything you need is one or two keystrokes away.
Getting Started
Set up collections for different parts of your day — Work, Creative, Personal, Gaming. Name them, pick a theme, choose an icon.
Drag your favorite apps onto each palette. Assign A-Z keyboard shortcuts for instant launching. Arrange them however you like.
Press the global hotkey to summon your palette from anywhere. Tap a letter to launch an app. Switch contexts with arrow keys. Done.
A better way to launch your apps.
Custom names, icons, and accent colors
A unique look for every context
Per-collection keyboard shortcuts
Sandboxed. No tracking. No data collection
macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel.
App Palette is $2.99, one-time. No subscriptions, no ads, no tracking.