Multiple Chrome profiles,
each with its own Dock icon.

macOS has no built-in way to do it, and neither does Chrome. Dragging Chrome to the Dock gives you one icon for all profiles, and open -na "Google Chrome" --args --profile-directory="Profile 1" opens a new window every time rather than returning to the one you had. The fix is a separate launcher application per profile. Okie Dockie builds those for you: open its menu bar icon, choose Chrome Profiles, tick the profiles you want, and each one gets a real Dock icon badged with that profile's picture. Clicking it raises that profile's existing window; clicking again cycles through its other windows.

Because every command-line and Dock route into a Chrome profile asks Chrome to launch that profile, and Chrome's answer to a launch request is always a new window. Nothing in Chrome's own interface targets an existing window. Getting back to it means finding the window through macOS itself and focusing it — which is what Okie Dockie's profile Dock icons do.

Not with Chrome or macOS alone. You can pin Chrome, but the icon is Chrome as a whole — it has no notion of which profile you meant. A per-profile Dock icon requires a separate application bundle for each profile, which is what Okie Dockie creates, with the profile's own picture on the icon so you can tell them apart at a glance.

Epichrome builds standalone Chrome-based apps, each with its own separate browser data, so logins, extensions and history are kept apart from your main Chrome. Okie Dockie does not change Chrome; it adds Dock icons that open the profiles you already use, with the same logins, extensions, history and passwords. Epichrome's developer has ended its development.

It is the only API macOS provides for seeing and moving other apps' windows, and every feature depends on it. Okie Dockie never reads window contents, and only goes online for licence activation and update checks. Revoke it any time and the app simply stops acting.

No. Focus moves to the window under your pointer while stacking is left alone. One exception: Chrome ignores focus changes that do not reorder, so hovering between two Chrome windows will not switch them.

Chrome, plus its Beta, Dev and Canary channels. Safari cannot be supported — it accepts no profile argument and exposes no profile list, so no app can do this for Safari.

Okie Dockie is sold directly from okiedockie.app. Every release is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens it like any other trusted app, and updates arrive inside the app itself. Buying direct also means one payment covers three Macs and support comes from the people who built it.

Nearly everything: snap layouts, the Option-Tab window switcher, Dock window lists, keeping the Dock on one display, turning a monitor off, one-click window focus, the drag-to-top share tray and the keyboard shortcuts — free, no account, no expiry. The one paid feature is giving each Chrome profile its own Dock icon, and that comes with a 7-day free trial that starts the moment you open the app — no sign-up, no email, no card.

Whatever macOS offers for that file — the same list as Finder's Share menu, which you control in System Settings under Login Items & Extensions. Apps that ship a Share Extension appear automatically. Okie Dockie also reaches WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and Discord, which ship none.

Three at a time. You sign in with the email address you bought with and a six-digit code we send you — there is no password and no licence key to keep safe. Moving to a new machine? Choose Deactivate This Mac in the licence window and the seat is free again.

Reactivating the same Mac never uses a second seat. And if the licence server cannot be reached, Okie Dockie keeps working for 14 days while it retries — a server problem of ours should never stop you working.