Questions about Okie Dockie

macOS has no built-in way to do it and Chrome offers no setting for it. Dragging Chrome to the Dock gives you one icon for all profiles. The only thing that works is a separate application bundle per profile. Okie Dockie builds those for you: install it, grant Accessibility permission, click its menu bar icon, choose Chrome Profiles, and tick the profiles you want. Each gets a Dock icon badged with that profile's own picture.

Not with Chrome or macOS alone. You can pin Chrome, but that icon is Chrome as a whole and has no notion of which profile you meant — it opens whichever profile Chrome considers current. A per-profile Dock icon requires a separate application bundle for each profile.

Every route into a Chrome profile from outside Chrome — a Dock shortcut, an Automator app, open -na — is a launch request, and Chrome answers a launch request by creating a new window. No Chrome flag, URL scheme or AppleScript command focuses a profile's existing window. Getting back to it means finding that window through macOS and focusing it, which is what Okie Dockie's profile icons do.

Yes. The first click brings forward the window that profile already has open. Clicking again moves to its next window. A new window is launched only when the profile has none open at all.

Yes. Each launcher is badged with that profile's own picture — the same avatar Chrome shows — so Personal, Work and Client are distinguishable at a glance instead of being three identical Chrome circles.

No. Okie Dockie points at the Chrome profiles you already have. Same logins, same extensions, same history, same saved passwords. Nothing is copied or duplicated, and removing a Dock icon leaves Chrome untouched.

Google Chrome, plus its Beta, Dev and Canary channels. Safari cannot be supported by any tool, because it accepts no profile argument and exposes no list of its profiles. Arc, Brave and Edge are not supported today.

Epichrome builds standalone applications that run Chrome's engine with their own separate browser data — a new profile with its own logins, extensions and history. Okie Dockie adds Dock icons for the profiles you already use and changes nothing about Chrome. Epichrome suits a fully separate browser; Okie Dockie is for reaching the profiles you already have. Epichrome's developer has ended its development.

Yes, with caveats. An Automator application running open -na "Google Chrome" --args --profile-directory="Profile 1" opens the right profile, but a new window every time, and you must identify profiles by folder number rather than name. Epichrome is also free and creates a separate profile with its own data.

Not quite. macOS 15 Sequoia tiles windows to halves and quarters by dragging to a screen edge or from the Window menu, but there is no layout chooser to pick from, no thirds, and no Snap Assist to fill the remaining slots with your other windows.

macOS cannot do thirds natively. Okie Dockie offers three columns, four columns and a one-left two-stacked-right layout from a drag to the top of the screen. Rectangle and Magnet can also do thirds by keyboard shortcut.

Only in Terminal, via defaults write com.apple.terminal FocusFollowsMouse -bool true. There is no system-wide setting, and older window-server hacks no longer work. A helper application with Accessibility permission is the only route.

It should not, and in Okie Dockie it never does — focus moves while the stacking order is left alone, and there is no raise option at all. Tools that raise on hover reshuffle your windows every time the pointer crosses one, which is why most people who try focus-follows-mouse turn it off again.

Not natively. macOS offers sharing through Finder's right-click Share submenu and the share button inside apps, but has no drag-to-top gesture. Okie Dockie adds one: drag any file towards the top of the screen and a tray of destinations appears.

Whatever macOS offers for that file type — the same list as Finder's Share menu, which you control in System Settings under Login Items & Extensions — plus WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and Discord, which ship no share extension of their own.

Yes, on a large display. Screens at least 1,800 points wide — a 27-inch monitor at its usual setting, for example — get a sixth layout: three columns by two rows. Drag a window to the top of the screen and choose it, and Okie Dockie offers your other windows for the empty spaces. Control-Option-6 tiles your six frontmost windows in one go. On a laptop screen the grid is not offered, because most apps cannot get narrow enough to fit six side by side. It is free.

Yes, in Okie Dockie. Hold Option and tap Tab to see every open window from every app, then let go to switch to the one highlighted. It is free and needs no Screen Recording permission. How it works.

Yes. When an app has two or more windows, rest the pointer on its Dock icon and a list of them appears, named after the page or document in each. Click one to go there. More.

Yes. Under Keep the Dock on in the menu bar, choose your main display or any other connected display, and the Dock stays there. More.

Yes. Under Displays in the menu bar, choose Turn off next to a screen and the Mac stops using it. It asks you to confirm, turns back on by itself after 15 seconds otherwise, never turns off the last screen, and Control-Option-Command-D brings every display back. More.

Yes. The window switcher, the Dock window list, keeping the Dock on one screen and turning displays off are all part of the free version. Only Chrome profile Dock icons are paid.

The app is free to download and use. Snap layouts, click-through window focus, the share tray and keyboard shortcuts cost nothing, with no account and no expiry. The one paid feature is giving each Chrome profile its own Dock icon, at $19 once, covering up to three Macs — and you can try that part free for seven days first, with no sign-up.

Yes — seven days of the Chrome profile Dock icons, free. It starts by itself the first time you open the app: no sign-up, no email address, no code and no card. There is nothing to cancel either. When the week is up the profile icons are taken out of the Dock automatically and everything else stays free, as it always does. One trial per Mac.

No. One payment of $19, and updates are free.

Three at a time. You sign in on each with the email address you bought with. Moving to a new machine? Choose Deactivate This Mac in the licence window and the seat is free again.

No. Your licence is attached to the email address you bought with. You enter that address in the app, we send a six-digit code, and you type it in. There is no password and nothing to paste or lose.

Yes. After activating, the app works entirely offline. It re-checks roughly every two weeks and keeps working for fourteen days without reaching the licence server at all, so a problem at our end never stops you working.

Okie Dockie checks for updates on its own and can install them for you. You can also check whenever you like: click the menu bar icon and choose Check for Updates. The version you are running is shown in the same menu.

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.

macOS 13 or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel. It is a menu bar application with no Dock icon of its own. It uses about 36 MB of memory when idle, and around 86 MB at its busiest for a moment while a switcher or list is showing.

Very little. The app is about 6 MB. Each Chrome profile you add to the Dock adds a small launcher of under 1 MB, kept in Applications › Chrome Profiles inside your home folder. It stays small because it opens the Chrome you already have rather than bundling a copy of the browser for every profile, and your profiles' history, logins and passwords stay inside Chrome, where they always were. Removing a profile from the Dock deletes its launcher and gives the space back.

It is the only interface macOS provides for seeing, focusing and moving other applications' windows, and every feature depends on it. Every window manager on the Mac asks for the same permission. Revoke it at any time and the app simply stops acting.

No. It never asks for Screen Recording and shows no window thumbnails.

None. It keeps no usage statistics, sends no crash logs and needs no sign-up. The only times it goes online are to activate a licence and to look for updates. Window titles are read solely to tell which Chrome window belongs to which profile; they never leave the Mac and are never saved.

No. Each release carries Apple's Developer ID signature and has passed Apple's notarization check, so it opens like any app from a known developer.

No. It uses a single shared event tap with no polling and no timers, so nothing runs while you are idle.