DockView For Mac

DockView is a handy Mac OS X application that displays preview windows for the Dock and the CMD + Tab interface. Whenever you hover your mouse pointer over the Dock icon of an opened app or over an icon while CMD + Tab is active, DockView displays previews of all opened windows of the app.

The application helps you easily find the app window you are looking for. In a way, it offers an alternative to OS X’s expose function. DockView offers plenty of customization options to the table, such as resizing the preview window and ignoring hidden apps.

Other interesting features include activating and closing windows directly from the previewer and viewing Dock badges, i.e the number of opened windows of an app on its Dock icon. You have quite a few settings to personalize badges, too: position, size, color and more.

In addition to this, the window previews in the Dock can be disabled, if you want to view only the ones in CMD + Tab. It can also display full-sized screenshots of windows when hovering over a preview and display upcoming iCal events in any calendar.

Another advantage of using this app is the filter support. They allow you to ignore minimized or hidden windows, ignore apps with only one window open and apply a filter level to apps that refuse to display window previews.

As far as accessibility goes, DockView’s options can be summoned from the menu bar with a click or via a user-defined global hotkey. Speaking of which, you can even set a hotkey to dismiss all preview windows and to close all hovered app windows. It is also possible to use keyboard shortcuts for each preview.

In conclusion, DockView brings a powerful feature to Mac OS X that many users long for, that of previewing windows from the Dock. The application offers a wide assortment of features as well as all-around customization. If you want to bring window previews feature to your Mac, this tool may provide the answer.