Turn your macOS Dock into a dynamic light bar that syncs with your music and brings your Dock to life in ways subtle or dramatic. Display track details and album art right beside the Dock, like songs ♥️, and control music playback with clickable controls that are always visible. Dock Party runs as a menu bar status item that doesn’t take up any app icon space in the Dock.
Launched on April 18th, 2025
As I said in the comments, this is the first Mac app I have come across in a long time that is truly unique. I’m a little surprised it doesn’t have more upvotes. I found it while searching for a simple menu bar controller for Spotify — and it is in fact the nicest looking one out there — but the visualizer behind the Dock is just plain fun. I leave it on even when I’m not actually listening to music. There aren’t a whole lot of options when it comes to customizing the appearance of macOS (I’ve tried them all), but Dock Party is next level.
Love the app! About time someone brought creativity to the desktop. It would make sense for Apple to buy the app and just have it installed on all their computers. Love it.
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Loving the Dock integration; it enhances my music experience! 😄
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Some rapid fire updates based on user feedback:
3.0.3
• New appearance option for player controls: “Backlight”
• Right-clicking Dock Party in status bar now shows menu options for Settings, About, and Quit
• More accurate matching of main window dimensions to Dock size
• Fixed a bug that could cause track info text in the menu bar to get cut off
3.0.2
• New scrolling marquee option to display artist, song, or album
• More scrolling marquee font options
• Dock area album info text size now adjusts dynamically in proportion to window height
• New size options for menu bar track info text
3.0.1
• Fixed a bug that prevented Dock Party from hiding along with the Dock if the active app entered full screen mode