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2.4 - Dock Badges and Chrome App Windows

2026-08-25
  • ❇️  Dock badge indicators: See unread counts and status dots from the Dock directly on app tiles, with a new Appearance setting to show or hide them.
  • ❇️  Chrome and Chromium web apps: Installed web apps such as Google Meet now appear as individual taskbar windows and activate reliably.
  • 📦  Clearer active tiles: Active-window underlines are now consistent across taskbar styles and use contrast-aware signature colors on customized tiles.
  • 📦  Stronger custom colors: Colored tiles now stay clearer and more readable across normal, hover, and active states in both Liquid Glass and Classic.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.4

2.3.3 - Clean Reminder Layout

2026-08-19
  • 🐛  Free-version reminder: The reminder now uses a clean, compact layout with only the intended OK and Buy License actions, without stray checkboxes, blank buttons, or help controls.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.3.3

2.3.2 - Reliable App Activation

2026-08-17
  • 🐛  Pinned app activation: Clicking a pinned tile for an app that is already running now activates or restores its existing window without reopening the app, even after rapid repeated clicks.
  • 🐛  Non-blocking reminders: Free-version reminders no longer block taskbar interaction, and clicking OK or closing a reminder returns focus to the app you were using.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.3.2

2.3.1 - Persistent Tile Customization

2026-08-16
  • ❇️  Persistent tile customizations: Custom tile names and colors now survive taskbar refreshes and Mac Taskbar restarts while their windows remain open.
  • ❇️  Persistent tile order: Mac Taskbar now remembers the order of open tiles separately for each display across refreshes and restarts.
  • 📦  Automatic Classic themes: Classic now follows the macOS light or dark appearance automatically, using the theme selected for each appearance.
  • 📦  Cleaner Settings: Settings pages are more compact and focused, without repetitive subtitles.
  • 🐛  Tile hover feedback: Hover highlighting now remains visible for as long as the pointer stays over a tile, with clearer feedback for colored tiles in both Liquid Glass and Classic.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.3.1

2.3 - Liquid Glass and Multi-Row Taskbars

2026-08-12
  • ❇️  Liquid Glass: Meet the new default taskbar style, with an adaptive native glass surface and Classic still available in Settings.
  • 📦  Adaptive appearance: Enjoy readable tiles, custom colors, controls, and badges across changing backgrounds, with support for Reduce Transparency and earlier macOS versions.
  • 📦  Simpler appearance settings: Liquid Glass adapts automatically, while color-theme controls are reserved for Classic.
  • 📦  Classic themes: Streamlined Classic to Lilac, Midnight, System Light, and System Dark; existing Elegant and Iron Grey choices now use System Dark.
  • ❇️  Multiple rows: Configure up to four rows for top and bottom taskbars, using one default or independent settings for each connected display.
  • 📦  Row-aware interaction: Balanced layouts, centering, drag-and-drop reordering, window lists, and folder menus now work naturally across multiple rows.
  • 📦  Fullscreen behavior: Fullscreen hiding is now always enabled, only on the display occupied by a true fullscreen app.
  • 📦  Settings access: Switch back to the Mac Taskbar Settings window directly from the taskbar.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.3

2.2.5 - Support Diagnostics

2026-07-15
  • ❇️  Support diagnostics: Copy privacy-safe diagnostics or export a local bundle with optional logs and crash reports directly from Settings.
  • ❇️  Crash recovery: After an unexpected quit, Mac Taskbar can offer the matching macOS crash report to make troubleshooting easier.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.2.5

2.2.4 - Top Taskbar Stability

2026-07-15
  • 🐛  Top taskbar settings: Prevent crashes when opening Settings by avoiding unsafe window adjustments and unnecessary taskbar rebuilds.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.2.4

2.2.3 - Media and Resize Reliability

2026-07-15
  • 🐛  Media controls: Keep Mac Taskbar responsive when a media app is slow or unavailable, while preserving command order.
  • 🐛  Automatic resizing: Remove stale state for closed windows so newly created windows always use their own original frame.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.2.3

2.2.2 - Window and Display Reliability

2026-07-15
  • 🐛  Window refreshes: Keep taskbar tiles current during rapid window, app, and display changes.
  • 📦  Automatic resizing: Recalculate from the original window frame when the taskbar moves or changes size, and restore managed windows when Mac Taskbar quits.
  • 🐛  Multi-monitor setups: Keep windows, taskbars, and pinned items on the correct physical display after rearranging or reconnecting monitors.
  • 🐛  System integration: Handle temporary WindowServer failures safely, keep media controls ordered, and leave room for a side Dock.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.2.2

2.2.1 - Fullscreen Reliability

2026-07-15
  • ❇️  Fullscreen setting: Choose whether the taskbar should hide when an app uses a display in fullscreen.
  • 🐛  Fullscreen detection: Keep the taskbar visible for maximized windows and hide it only for true fullscreen apps.
  • 🐛  Fullscreen exit: Restore taskbar tiles immediately after leaving a fullscreen space.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.2.1

2.2 - Top Taskbar

2026-07-14
  • ❇️  Top orientation: Place the taskbar along the top edge of any display, with matching menus, window resizing, and Dock-aware behavior.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.2

2.1 - Media Controls, Pinned Items, and Fullscreen Polish

2026-05-26
  • ❇️  Media control settings: Toggle taskbar media controls globally and configure supported apps.
  • ❇️  More media apps: Add VLC support and make it easier to add custom media-control apps.
  • ❇️  Pinned item management: Manage pinned apps in Settings and reorder pinned items directly.
  • 📦  Fullscreen behavior: Hide the taskbar more reliably when fullscreen windows cover a display.
  • 📦  Text sizing: Add an independent taskbar font size setting with centered tile text.
  • 🐛  Window resizing: Resize windows away from the taskbar and reduce awkward overlap cases.
  • 🐛  Settings polish: Fix media app row clipping and improve dark mode surfaces.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.1

2.0 - Pinned Tiles, Combined Apps, and Faster UI

2026-04-09
  • ❇️  Pin apps: Keep launch-ready tiles visible all the time.
  • ❇️  Pin folders: Quickly access files from the taskbar.
  • ❇️  Combine tiles: Group multiple windows into one with a window list.
  • 📦  Major performance improvements: Removed up to 92 % of bloat.
  • 📦  New Settings to adjust behaviour of above features.
  • ❇️  Rename window tiles, app blocklist, and manage more actions directly from the tile context menu.
  • ❇️  Add playback controls for supported media apps like Music and Spotify
  • ❇️  New Accessibility setup wizard.
  • 📦  Redesigned Settings.
Download Mac Taskbar 2.0

1.6 - Tile Color Menu

2026-03-18
  • ❇️  Right-click any tile to assign a color from a built-in palette.
Download Mac Taskbar 1.6

1.5 - Release Signing Fix

2026-03-06
  • 🐛  Fixed the release packaging flow so the distributed app and DMG are both notarized, stapled, and validated before publication.
Download Mac Taskbar 1.5

1.4 – Minimized Window Visibility Fix

2026-02-13
  • 🐛️  Fixed minimized window visibility detection so window state is tracked correctly on newer macOS versions.
Download Mac Taskbar 1.4

1.3 – Better window activation algorithm

2025-12-18
  • 🐛️  #33 Fixed multiple Windows activating on different screens.
  • 🐛️  #34 Hiding empty windows.
Download Mac Taskbar 1.3

1.2.1 – Width Fix

2025-12-12
  • 🐛️  Taskbar again taking full width if dock is left or right.
Download Mac Taskbar 1.2.1

1.2 – Automatic Updates Fix

2025-12-10
  • 🐛️  Automatic Updates are now working correctly.
Download Mac Taskbar 1.2

1.1 – Vertical layout

2025-12-08
  • ❇️  Vertical Layout
    • Taskbar can now change orientation in the settings.
    • Left, right and bottom are supported.
  • 📦  macOS 26 support.
  • 🐛  Various bugfixes and improvements.
Download Mac Taskbar 1.1

1.0 – Happy Release!

2025-06-04
  • ❇️  Taskbar can now be bought.
    • Will stay forever-free trial though. <3
  • 🐛  Fix Windows someteimes won't activate
Download Mac Taskbar 1.0

0.15 – Reorder Tiles, Close Window with middle click, new Settings Dialog

2025-05-14
  • ❇️  Reorder tiles
    • Custom sort your windows with drag & drop.
  • ❇️  Middle click closes window
    • Middle click will close a window. Shift + middle click closes the whole app.
  • ❇️  Option to center tiles
  • ❇️  Option to show minimized windows
  • ❇️  New Settings Dialog
    • Tabbed settings menu. Option to reset all settings. Infos and Tipps.
  • ❇️  Auto-download for updates
    • Updates now can be performed automatically.
  • 🐛  Fix unnecessary windows displaying
Download Mac Taskbar 0.15

0.14 – Update-Check, "Click active tile again" & no more .dmg download

2025-04-27
  • ❇️  Auto Update-Check
    • Will automatically check if a new version is available for download.
  • ❇️  Click active tile again
    • Clicking a tile that is already active will restore the previous windows.
Download Mac Taskbar 0.14

0.13.1 – Signed App & .dmg Installation Guide

2025-01-17
  • ❇️  Signed app
    • To prevent app not being able to start without going to system preferences
  • ❇️  .dmg Background
    • Added a installation guide as image background in the .dmg image

0.13 – Settings & Virtual Desktops

2025-01-15
  • ❇️  Settings Dialog
    • Theme Switcher
    • Adjust Taskbar Size
    • Adjust Icon Size
    • Keep minimized windows
  • ❇️  Virtual Desktops now supported

0.12 – Small fixes

2023-09-27
  • 🐛  Fix "Work in Progress" Settings Dialog

0.11 – Initial Release

2023-01-27
  • Stylish Taskbar
  • Performance Optimized
  • Icons
  • Resizing of existing windows
  • Multi Monitor support
  • Detecting most scenarios when to update the GUI
  • Low CPU, low memory footprint
  • Dual-dispatching algorithm in order to max performance
  • Auto-Startup
  • Made for macOS >13