aTaskbar pins a proper, Windows- and KDE-style bar to the bottom of every display on your Mac. Running windows show up as labeled buttons. Hover, you get a live thumbnail. Click, you get the window. No magnification, no bouncing, no compromises.
The Dock is a beautiful thing to use look at.
It zooms. It bounces. It forgets which windows you had open.
aTaskbar is the opposite of that — an honest row of
buttons, one per window, exactly where you left them, on every
display, all the time.
Every feature exists because the default macOS behaviour made someone, somewhere, stop working and sigh. aTaskbar replaces sighing with shipping.
aTaskbar surfaces each window as its own button — title, icon, the lot. Click a Safari window, you land on that window, not the frontmost one.
Hover any window button for a real, current screen capture — never stale, never cached past the point of usefulness.
One bar per display, rebuilt on hot-plug. No "primary only", no second-class monitors.
Walks /Applications, /System/Applications, ~/Applications. Launches things. Keyboard-first. Familiar.
Pin an app and it stays. Running or not — it lives on the bar until you say otherwise. Finder and Safari by default.
Want ten Safari tabs as one button? Toggle grouping. Want each window on its own? Toggle it off. Up to you.
A clock that tells time. A trash icon that empties itself on request. No weather, no stocks, no sparkline of your mood.
Opt in, and aTaskbar politely asks the Dock to stay gone — autohide on, delay infinite. Quit the app and your original Dock settings are restored exactly as you had them.
No web runtime, no background helpers you didn't sign up for. A single native binary that wakes up with your Mac and paints a bar. That's it.
Runtime footprint, on a quiet desktop with 14 windows open: