Everything piDock does, including the shortcuts that don't fit in a tooltip.
Download and install piDock - it runs a 7-day trial immediately, every feature unlocked, no account needed. When you're ready to buy, open piDock's tray icon menu → License… and paste in the key from your purchase email.
Right-click the desktop or use the tray menu to add any of these. Mix and match as many as you like.
Groups loose desktop items into one tidy, collapsible dock.
Points at any folder for a live, resizable view of it - no need to open File Explorer.
Shows a whole drive's free space, most-used files, and recent activity.
A sticky-note dock for text, local file links, and web links - click an empty spot and start typing. Right-click a text note to set a reminder.
A read-only FTP explorer with encrypted, saved credentials.
Tracks a repository's live status (branch, changes) right on your desktop.
Password-protected, AES-256 encrypted dock for files you don't want sitting in the open. Also holds small encrypted notes for passwords or license keys - a mini password manager built in.
Beyond the tray menu's + Add options, piDock adds itself straight into the desktop's own right-click menu, so you can turn what's already there into a dock without hunting for the tray icon first:
| Right-click one item | "Dock this item with piDock" - creates a new dock containing just that item. |
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| Select several items, right-click | "Dock these items with piDock" - creates one new dock containing all of them. |
| Right-click and drag on empty desktop | Draws a selection box, then offers "Dock here with piDock" on release - creates a dock sized and positioned exactly where you dragged, with anything inside the box docked into it. Can be turned off in Settings under "Dock with right-click marquee" if it gets in the way of your normal right-click menu. |
| Alt + drag | Move a dock with smart alignment guides - it snaps to the edges of other docks as you drag, the way a design tool would. Holding Alt while dragging near a sticky dock also snaps the two together with a small gap. |
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| Ctrl + scroll | Resize icons inside a dock without opening any settings. |
Tray menu → Align opens a 9-point picker: Top Left, Top Center, Top Right, Middle Left, Center, Middle Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Center, Bottom Right. Pick a point and every open dock lines up side by side starting from that corner or edge, largest first, wrapping to a new row as needed - without resizing any of them. Align is grayed out until at least one dock is open. On multi-monitor setups, each monitor's docks align independently within that monitor's screen.
Select an item and press F2 to rename it in place, same as File Explorer. Double-click a dock's own title bar to rename the dock itself.
Click into any dock and just start typing to instantly filter its contents by name - no search box to find first. For more precise filtering than a plain substring match, your query is also matched as a regular expression.
Scroll your mouse wheel while hovering over a dock's title bar to bring it to the front or send it to the back, without needing to click into or move the dock.
Right-click any dock's title bar for its full options menu. Highlights:
Fully custom background color, with adjustable transparency.
Desaturates icons, optionally only while the dock is inactive.
Independent per-dock toggles for showing hidden files and file extensions.
By name, date, type, and more - plus an option to always show your most recently accessed items in the first row.
A sticky dock snaps to others dragged near it (see Moving & resizing above); locking a dock blocks moving or resizing it until unlocked.
Show a dock only on the virtual desktop it was created on, instead of on all of them.
Separately, double-click any empty spot on the desktop to instantly hide every open dock and gateway - double-click again, or click the tray icon, to bring them all back. While they're hidden, just hovering the tray icon peeks at them (like hovering Windows' own "Show Desktop" button) - move away and they hide again.
One click sorts loose desktop clutter into sensible categories using a local, offline model - nothing is uploaded to any cloud service, so it works without an internet connection and keeps your file names and structure private.
On by default: while your laptop is running on battery, piDock automatically speeds up its own animations to instant and checks less often for updates, RSS feeds, and Pinboard reminders. It switches back to normal the moment you plug back in - no restart needed. The first time it ever kicks in you'll get a one-time notification explaining what changed; after that it's silent. Turn it off anytime in Settings under "Low power mode on battery" if you'd rather keep full animations regardless of power source.
piDock checks for new versions in the background and installs them with one click when you're ready - see the changelog for what's new in each release. The interface is localized into English, Turkish, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Korean, Czech, Greek, Russian, and Chinese.