Your Mac apps live in floating panels you arrange, lock, and summon on demand — grouped by project, client, or mood. Click an app and only your last window comes forward, never a pile of others. Native, sandboxed, no account. Free, with a $4.99 Pro unlock.
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A launcher for people who hate launchers — which is to say, I built this for myself.
I quietly hate app launchers. The Dock grows into a mile-long cluttered strip, Launchpad buries everything under a full-screen grid, and Spotlight only helps if I already remember the app's name. I wanted something calmer: a few small floating panels, each holding just the apps for one part of my day — one for client work, one for writing, one for the things I only touch on weekends. I lock them where I want them and summon them with a keystroke.
The piece I'm most attached to is small but it changed how I work: when you click an app, Iwan brings forward only the window you were last in — not every window that app has open. So opening a browser doesn't bury the doc you were writing under six other windows.
It's native AppKit, sandboxed and signed — no account, no sign-in, no analytics, nothing phoning home. Free to use, with a one-time $4.99 Pro unlock (no subscription).
I'd love honest feedback — especially on whether the panel-per-context idea clicks for you or feels like overhead, and what it'd actually take to get you off the Dock. Happy to answer anything about how it's built or where it's headed.
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The "last window only" behavior is genuinely useful — usually my Slack or Notes windows pile up when I just want to check one thing. Dragging apps into little floating groups feels nice and native too, not janky like some tiling tools.
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@yusufbakkuxn Really glad that one landed, it's honestly my favorite behavior in the whole app. The pile-up when you just want to peek at one Slack or Notes window was the exact thing that bugged me. And the no-jank part matters, it's native AppKit, so it should always feel like it belongs on the Mac. Thanks for trying it 🙏
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finally something that fixes the mess of stacked windows when i switch between figma and slack, the panel pinning feels really native on my m2 air.
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@ala83719984275 This is exactly the use case I built it for, so glad it clicked. That window-stacking mess when you jump between apps was my own daily annoyance, whatever the apps happened to be. Native feel matters a lot to me too, it's AppKit all the way down, no Electron. Thanks for trying it on the M2 Air 🙏
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Finally something that gets the one-window-per-app rule right, my Dock has been a mess of overlapping previews for years. Love that it runs sandboxed and doesn’t want an account just to try it.
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@gzdexquf Thank you, this is exactly the mess I wanted to fix. And yes, sandboxed with no account by design, you should be able to just try it without handing anything over. Appreciate you giving it a look 🙏
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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Jamal, the maker.
I built Iwan Dock because I never got along with full-screen app grids or a cluttered Dock. I wanted my apps in tidy floating panels I could arrange, lock in place, call up when I needed them, and hide when I didn't. Everything stays exactly where I left it, so muscle memory actually builds instead of fighting a Dock that keeps rearranging itself.
A few things that make it different:
- Floating panels you group however you think: by project, client, or time of day
- Click an app and only the window you were last working in comes forward, not a pile of others, so opening something never buries your current task
- Native macOS app, sandboxed, no account, no tracking, nothing leaves your Mac
- One-time $4.99 Pro unlock, no subscription ever. There's a free tier to try it first.
It's just me building this, so I'd genuinely love your feedback: what works, what's missing, what you'd want from a launcher like this. I'll be around all day to answer questions. 🙏
The "last window only" behavior is genuinely useful — usually my Slack or Notes windows pile up when I just want to check one thing. Dragging apps into little floating groups feels nice and native too, not janky like some tiling tools.
@yusufbakkuxn Really glad that one landed, it's honestly my favorite behavior in the whole app. The pile-up when you just want to peek at one Slack or Notes window was the exact thing that bugged me. And the no-jank part matters, it's native AppKit, so it should always feel like it belongs on the Mac. Thanks for trying it 🙏
finally something that fixes the mess of stacked windows when i switch between figma and slack, the panel pinning feels really native on my m2 air.
Finally something that gets the one-window-per-app rule right, my Dock has been a mess of overlapping previews for years. Love that it runs sandboxed and doesn’t want an account just to try it.
@gzdexquf Thank you, this is exactly the mess I wanted to fix. And yes, sandboxed with no account by design, you should be able to just try it without handing anything over. Appreciate you giving it a look 🙏
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Jamal, the maker.
I built Iwan Dock because I never got along with full-screen app grids or a cluttered Dock. I wanted my apps in tidy floating panels I could arrange, lock in place, call up when I needed them, and hide when I didn't. Everything stays exactly where I left it, so muscle memory actually builds instead of fighting a Dock that keeps rearranging itself.
A few things that make it different:
- Floating panels you group however you think: by project, client, or time of day
- Click an app and only the window you were last working in comes forward, not a pile of others, so opening something never buries your current task
- Native macOS app, sandboxed, no account, no tracking, nothing leaves your Mac
- One-time $4.99 Pro unlock, no subscription ever. There's a free tier to try it first.
It's just me building this, so I'd genuinely love your feedback: what works, what's missing, what you'd want from a launcher like this. I'll be around all day to answer questions. 🙏