Your Mac as a cosy town
Dock Town lives in the menu bar and shows how your Mac is doing as a small isometric town. Traffic is the CPU: each car, ferry, tram or reindeer on the move is one of the apps working hardest, in a colour of its own, and hovering over one shows whose it is, like Xcode ยท 23% CPU. Lit windows are memory and the sky is the network, in a way that suits each place: gulls over Istanbul, falling petals at Fuji, the northern lights in the Arctic. A sign in the corner is the battery (paper lanterns in Tokyo, a carousel in Paris, a hot spring at Fuji), smoke or steam over the roofs is heat, and a click on the landmark in the middle tells you in words how your Mac is doing. Each town has its own little moving icon in the menu bar, faster the busier the processor, and in the Dock the app's icon is the town you chose.
A town that grows while you work
Time spent working at your Mac earns coins, and coins build houses, one plot at a time. When every plot is built, the town can go up a level and gets room for more houses, and a break after a long stretch of work earns a bonus.
24 towns
Cities and nature places, from Istanbul and Paris to Fuji and the Arctic, each in the colours of one of the Codigrate themes. 12 towns are free. The others can be bought one by one or all opened with Town Pass, a monthly or yearly subscription; when it ends, the towns it opened lock again with their houses and levels kept. Coin packs build faster, but coins never open a town. A new town is planned every month.
Activity, alerts, meetings and reports
Activity lists the apps at work now, each with its own little vehicle from the town, its share of the CPU and memory, how long it has been running and what it is. A built-in guide knows macOS's own processes and the usual busy apps, and on Macs with Apple Intelligence the others are described in a sentence or two, on-device. A click on the road opens Activity Monitor, a house its Memory tab, the battery sign Battery settings and the sky Wi-Fi settings. Alerts say when your Mac is struggling, your next meeting shows beside the town with a Join button (calendar access is optional), and the reports cover today's work, last week and a log of each day.
Accessibility
Reduce Motion slows the whole town down, and colour-blindness modes keep the colours that mean something apart.
Private by design
No account, no tracking and no ads. The app makes no network requests, and everything stays on your Mac: see the Dock Town privacy policy.
Questions
- What is Dock Town?
- Dock Town is a menu bar app for Mac that shows how your Mac is doing as a small isometric town. The traffic is the CPU, lit windows are memory, the sky is the network, a sign in the corner is the battery and smoke over the roofs is heat, and the town grows while you work.
- How does the town grow?
- Time spent working at your Mac earns coins, and coins build houses, one plot at a time. When every plot is built, the town can go up a level and gets room for more houses. A break after a long stretch of work earns a bonus.
- Is Dock Town free?
- Yes. Dock Town is free with optional in-app purchases. 12 of its 24 towns are free; the other 12 can be bought one by one, or all opened with Town Pass, a monthly or yearly subscription. Coin packs build faster, but coins never open a town.
- What happens to my towns when Town Pass ends?
- The towns it opened lock again, but their houses and levels are kept, so they are as you left them when you open them again. A town bought on its own stays yours.
- Does Dock Town collect my data?
- No. There is no account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking, and the app makes no network requests of its own. Everything it reads to draw the town stays on your Mac.
- Which Macs does Dock Town run on?
- Macs with macOS 26 or later. On Macs with Apple Intelligence, it also describes the apps its built-in guide doesn't know, on-device.
