The taskbar
macOS forgot.
Apple Crumble pins a real taskbar to the bottom of your Mac with Crumble Bar: every open window at a glance, a Start menu and hotkey, and live window previews on hover. Crumble Snap adds Rectangle-style window snapping, and the optional Crumble Ask puts a Claude chat panel one keystroke away.
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- ✓ No credit card
- ✓ One-time or subscription
The Dock hides the one thing you need: your windows.
The macOS Dock shows apps, not windows. Open three browser windows and four docs and you are left ⌘-Tab guessing. Crumble Bar puts every window — and a way to jump straight to it — one glance away.
One app. Three ways your Mac gets better.
Everything the Dock should have been.
Every window at a glance
Hover any app to peek large, live-refreshing thumbnails of every open window in a tidy grid. Click a thumbnail to raise that exact window — or hit ✕ to close it — powered by ScreenCaptureKit.
A Start menu & a global hotkey
Tap the Start button or hit ⌃⌥Space to fire Spotlight — or switch to a real Start menu with a searchable app list, quick links to Settings, Activity Monitor and Files, plus Lock, Sleep, Restart and Shut Down.
Pinned apps + live running indicators
Pin your favorites and click to launch. Every running app gets a button too — even unpinned ones — with a light underline under what's open and a wider accent line under the app in front.
Right-click jump lists
Right-click any app for app-specific actions — Chrome's New Tab / New Window / New Incognito, and the like — plus Hide, Quit, Pin and Unpin. The shortcuts you reach for, where your cursor already is.
Make it yours
Pick the bar, icon and preview size, choose a custom colour with one-click presets (Charcoal, Midnight, Frost…), and dial in a frosted tint-over-blur or a solid fill with a transparency slider. Toggle the clock and the “+” to taste.
It reserves real screen space
Crumble Bar keeps normal and maximized windows above the bar — the same technique Rectangle and yabai use — and gracefully auto-hides for full-screen apps, sliding back when you nudge the bottom edge.
Quick Settings & a real system tray
Click the status cluster for a Windows 11 style flyout: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth lists, Dark Mode, AirDrop, volume and brightness sliders. The clock opens a calendar, and ⌃⌥T grabs any text on screen straight to your clipboard with on-device OCR.
Windows that land where you point them.
Drag to snap, or never touch the mouse
Drag a window to any edge or corner and it snaps to halves, quarters or thirds, exactly like Rectangle. Prefer the keyboard? Every zone has a shortcut, with size cycling, restore, and moving windows between displays built in.
Power tools for window tilers
Hold ⇧ while dragging for a throw grid that files the window into any cell. Define custom snap targets, stash windows off the screen edge and peel them back, and save whole desks as workspace layouts you recall with one shortcut.
Claude, one keystroke away.
Ask anything, anywhere
Press ⌥Space in any app and a Claude chat panel opens right on your desktop: drafting, explaining, translating, debugging. Quick sums are answered by an on-device calculator before anything is sent. Included with the With Ask plans.
More than the Dock. Lighter than the rest.
| Capability | Apple Crumble | macOS Dock | Other dock apps |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live previews of every window | ✓ | — | Some |
| Click a thumbnail to raise that window | ✓ | — | Rare |
| Windows-style Start menu & hotkey | ✓ | — | — |
| Rectangle-style window snapping built in | ✓ | — | — |
| Right-click jump lists | ✓ | Limited | Some |
| Claude chat panel on a hotkey (add-on) | ✓ | — | — |
| Reserves screen space + full-screen aware | ✓ | ✓ | Varies |
| Native Apple Silicon, built on ScreenCaptureKit | ✓ | ✓ | Varies |
| One-time purchase option | ✓ | n/a | Sometimes |
Three steps to a better desktop.
Download & open
Drag Apple Crumble to Applications and launch. The bar appears at the bottom instantly.
Grant two permissions
Accessibility and Screen Recording power the window peek, snapping and the Start hotkey. Two clicks in System Settings. See exactly what each one does.
Pin & personalize
Pin your apps, pick a colour and size, and set it to launch at login. Done.
The Mac, the way your muscle memory wants it.
“I switched from Windows and missed the taskbar every single day. Crumble Bar gave it back — the window previews are better than I remember.”
“The hover peek alone is worth it. I stop ⌘-Tab roulette and just click the window I want. It's become muscle memory.”
“Feels like Apple shipped it. Native, fast on my M-series, and it actually reserves space so my windows don't hide under it.”
Start free. Then own it your way.
Every plan includes Crumble Bar and Crumble Snap. The With Ask plans add the Crumble Ask panel. 7-day free trial, no credit card to try.
Prices in Australian dollars. Pick monthly or one-time with the toggle above; your product key arrives by email right after checkout.
Give your Mac the desktop it deserves.
Crumble Bar and Crumble Snap, free for 7 days. Apple Silicon, macOS 14 and later, ready for macOS 26 Tahoe.