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RocketDock

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RocketDock is a Mac OS X dock clone. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows
Discontinued

The program is no longer updated, but last version, 1.3.5, released in September 2008, can be still downloaded from the official website. "It is true, RocketDock has been discontinued. [...] The app remains available on https://rocketdock.com, but is unsupported."

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RocketDock information

  • Developed by

    US flagPunk Labs
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.7
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    66 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 18 comments and reviews about RocketDock, and it has gotten 291 likes

RocketDock was added to AlternativeTo by Ola Johansson on Mar 12, 2009 and this page was last updated Nov 5, 2021. RocketDock is sometimes referred to as Rocket Dock.

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Comment summary: Despite positive remarks about RocketDock's lightweight design and aesthetic appeal, users express concerns about its discontinuation and lack of support for modern Windows versions such as 8 and 10. Many face compatibility issues with 64-bit systems, although some users report it functioning on Vista Ultimate 64-bit. There are calls for the software to be made open-source. Alternatives like Winstep Nexus and True Launch Bar are suggested due to its instability and memory leaks.
Top Positive Comment
Durham Bell
Nov 9, 2020
5

See, I never get this. Rocket Dock was a pretty good dock/launcher/widget-thingy. 2008 right? That's 12 fcing years ago! Why not just open source the thing? Toss it to the community. Then some green coders can sharpen (or badly blunt, I suppose ??) their skills, and _everyone _could be better for it.

I know how much work goes into software, right? I guess it just bums me out to see this happen, and it happens _way _too much now. Go look through the system utilities you have used for years on Windows. The ones that _aren't _ flagged as discontinued have last updates in 2014 sometimes! ??

It does, it bums me out that these codebases are just sitting around collecting dust (and data corruption, had we not RAID'd the entire planet a few years ago ??). 12 years since the last push? This was good software. It was clean, efficient, not too greedy ( ?electron? ???? ), and stable.

Whomever developed it, you already have my money—have for years—it really was great software! Should you read this (?????) : push it to GitHub. Why not? 12 years?!?

So, I say to you, ?? to ??: "?????, but also ?????—and in conclusion, ?????.

I rest my ??,

????????.

[Edited by durhambell, November 09]

Top Negative Comment
Shoji
Feb 22, 2017
3

no windows 10 support anymore

456477696e
Nov 19, 2022
0

As nice and simple as this program is, it has a serious memory leak that will quickly eat up gigabytes of your RAM if left unchecked.

st0rm
Nov 9, 2022
1

Was the best icon dock ever. Doesn't work on Win 10+ sadly. Been using True Launch Bar as the only true alternative, but if this got updated i'd be back to using this simple thing in a jiffy.

orange37
Aug 23, 2022
0

So RocketDock brings macOS Leopard dock to Windows Vista, and 7.

It's a cool program that it almost I think supports windows 10 like that tutorial that 2013Windows8.1 made on YT; How to make Windows 10 look like macOS Mojave.

So there is the reason up there. /\

Duncan Briggs
Jul 5, 2022
1

According to AlternativeTo, RocketDock is discontinued. Can anyone recommend a similar app under active development?

TBayAreaPat
Jan 15, 2023

How about Side Slide? I'm new to the Dock Party, but I'm very impressed with it

carlospolnio
Mar 8, 2018
0

Becausde is still the better dock for windows. Period.

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What is RocketDock?

RocketDock is a Mac OS X dock clone. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock. Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility.