Your Dock,
saved as a file.

Capture the Dock as portable JSON, edit it in bulk, and put it back on any Mac.

Latest release for macOS 26 · signed, notarised, MIT licensed

The DockWizard editor listing every Dock tile with its position, and a sidebar of saved presets

A preset is a file you can commit

Apps are matched by bundle identifier against a verified path, so a stale copy on a mounted disk image can never win. Your home directory is written as ~, so a preset from one Mac still finds ~/Downloads under a different username.

Settings are optional and partial. A tiles-only preset leaves your Dock's size and position exactly as they were.

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "name": "Work",
  "apps": [
    { "type": "app",
      "bundleId": "com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap",
      "path": "/Applications/Slack.app" },
    { "type": "spacer" }
  ],
  "others": [
    { "type": "folder",
      "path": "~/Downloads",
      "folder": { "showAs": "fan" } }
  ]
}

Missing apps are reported, never guessed

Open a colleague's preset on a Mac without Photoshop and DockWizard says so before it writes anything. The rest still applies.

Adobe Photoshop 2026not installed

Lineardifferent app at that path

Every apply is reversible

The whole Dock preference domain is snapshotted first, including keys DockWizard doesn't model.

dockwizard restore

Bulk editing

Select a run of apps and act on all of them at once. Nothing touches the Dock until you press Apply, so a restart costs you one flicker, not twenty.

Drag as one block
Wrap in spacers
Move to position
Remove
Extract to a new preset

DockWizard settings, showing the preset library location, the missing-apps preference, and the command line tool installer

Built for a setup script

The app bundles a dockwizard binary with exit codes worth branching on. 0 applied cleanly, 2 applied with items skipped, 1 failed.

# capture the current Dock into the preset library
$ dockwizard export --save work

# see what applying it would change, without writing
$ dockwizard apply work --dry-run
apps:
  - Adobe Photoshop 2026
  + Linear
  ~ order changes
settings:
  ~ tilesize: 48 -> 64

# positions are 1-indexed and count spacers
$ dockwizard add com.apple.Safari --position 3
$ dockwizard move 5 2

Install

brew install --cask bevanjkay/tap/dockwizard

Or download the DMG and drag DockWizard to Applications. The command line tool installs from Settings.

Why it isn't on the App Store

A sandboxed app is not allowed to write another application's preferences, which is the entire job. Releases are signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple instead.

Your Dock,saved as a file.