• Subscribe to a buddy’s currently playing music and most recent listening history • Dock Party remains visible even when the Dock is hidden or positioned on the side of the screen • Capture Dock Pics directly with your Mac’s camera and optionally apply filters • Flash a buddy: Send a Dock Pic that disappears after being viewed • Pin up to 3 Dock Pics to the front of the Pic Parade • New “Blue Wave” animated background option • Additional tools in the viewer: Zoom, Reply, Forward, Hide, Delete, Get Info, Add to Photos, Save to File, Set as Wallpaper, Copy, and Share • Display detailed camera and image data • Widget for "Newest Dock Pic" (Desktop and/or Notification Center) • ”Send with Dock Party“ from Share menu in Finder or Photos app • Sent Dock Pics appear in Pic Parade across multiple active sessions • Image quality enhancements: Preservation of transparency, color space, and color depth, including wide gamut and high bit depth; end-to-end HEIC image support; end-to-end lossless image support • Seamless design across Dock level, progress bar, and Pic Parade • ⌘W keyboard shortcut to close open windows such as the viewer, buddies list, camera, and settings • Select any folder to download the currently playing track’s album cover artwork to • Menu bar popover appearance now matches the system’s light or dark mode setting • Toolbar refinements for Tahoe and Golden Gate • Corrected link to privacy page in About Dock Party window • Performance upgrades

• Subscribe to a buddy’s currently playing music and most recent listening history • Dock Party remains visible even when the Dock is hidden or positioned on the side of the screen • Capture Dock Pics directly with your Mac’s camera and optionally apply filters • Flash a buddy: Send a Dock Pic that disappears after being viewed • Pin up to 3 Dock Pics to the front of the Pic Parade • New “Blue Wave” animated background option • Additional tools in the viewer: Zoom, Reply, Forward, Hide, Delete, Get Info, Add to Photos, Save to File, Set as Wallpaper, Copy, and Share • Display detailed camera and image data • ”Send with Dock Party“ from Share menu in Finder or Photos app • Sent Dock Pics appear in Pic Parade across multiple active sessions • Seamless design across Dock level, progress bar, and Pic Parade • ⌘W keyboard shortcut to close open windows such as the viewer, buddies list, camera, and settings • Select any folder to download the currently playing track’s album cover artwork to • Menu bar popover appearance now matches the system’s light or dark mode setting • Toolbar refinements for Tahoe and Golden Gate • Corrected link to privacy page in About Dock Party window • Performance upgrades

• Subscribe to a buddy’s currently playing music and most recent listening history • Dock Party remains visible even when the Dock is hidden or positioned on the side of the screen • Capture Dock Pics directly with your Mac’s camera and optionally apply filters • Flash a buddy: Send a Dock Pic that disappears after being viewed • Pin up to 3 Dock Pics to the front of the Pic Parade • New “Blue Wave” animated background option • Additional tools in the viewer: Zoom, Reply, Forward, Hide, Delete, Get Info, Add to Photos, Save to File, Set as Wallpaper, Copy, and Share • Display detailed camera and image data • ”Send with Dock Party“ from Share menu in Finder or Photos app • Sent Dock Pics appear in Pic Parade across multiple active sessions • Seamless design across Dock level, progress bar, and Pic Parade • ⌘W keyboard shortcut to close open windows such as the viewer, buddies list, camera, and settings • Select any folder to download the currently playing track’s album cover artwork to • Menu bar popover appearance now matches the system’s light or dark mode setting • Toolbar refinements for Tahoe and Golden Gate • Corrected link to privacy page in About Dock Party window • Performance upgrades

• Subscribe to a buddy’s currently playing music and most recent listening history • Dock Party remains visible even when the Dock is hidden or positioned on the side of the screen • Capture Dock Pics directly with your Mac’s camera and optionally apply filters • Flash a buddy: Send a Dock Pic that disappears after being viewed • Pin up to 3 Dock Pics to the front of the Pic Parade • New “Blue Wave” animated background option • ”Send with Dock Party“ from Share menu in Finder or Photos app • Sent Dock Pics appear in Pic Parade across multiple active sessions • Seamless design between Dock level, progress bar, and Pic Parade • Toolbar refinements for Tahoe and Golden Gate • Major performance upgrades • Lots of bug fixes

• Subscribe to Apple Photos Shared Albums: Photos shared by members of the album appear directly in your Pic Parade • Picmaxxing: New Pic Parade size option keeps window maximized • More stable Spotify account connection behavior

3.5 is a major update! • Introducing Dock Pics: The photo sharing and music discovery service that’s built into Dock Party ° Sending and receiving pics is fun again with the unique Pic Parade view ° Share photos with Dock Pics buddies ° Share your currently playing Spotify or Apple Music track with 2 clicks ° Immediately play received tracks in either Spotify or Apple Music, regardless of how they were shared ° Share web page links ° Buddy contact cards with nicknames, custom profile pics, crews, and buddy-specific settings ° Mark pics as winners ° Blur controls for privacy ° Cloud storage and local image cache • Redesigned progress bar is more accurate, responsive, and cool-looking • Significant performance and stability upgrades • Fully upgraded to Swift 6 Language Mode with complete strict concurrency • So much bug fixes 3.5.3: • Backwards compatibility extended to macOS 14.2 Sonoma • Dock Pics users can add additional associated email addresses • Database and storage optimizations

Major update! • Introducing Dock Pics: The photo sharing and music discovery service that’s built into Dock Party ° Sending and receiving pics is fun again with the unique Pic Parade view ° Share photos with Dock Pics buddies ° Share your currently playing Spotify or Apple Music track with 2 clicks ° Immediately play received tracks in either Spotify or Apple Music, regardless of how they were shared ° Share web page links ° Buddy contact cards with nicknames, custom profile pics, crews, and buddy-specific settings ° Mark pics as winners ° Blur controls for privacy ° Cloud storage and local image cache • Redesigned progress bar is more accurate, responsive, and cool-looking • Significant performance and stability upgrades • Liquid glass design refinements • Fixed an issue that could cause Dock Party to hang after running for an extended period

Major update! • Introducing Dock Pics: The photo sharing and music discovery service that’s built into Dock Party ° Sending and receiving pics is fun again with the unique Pic Parade view ° Share photos with Dock Pics buddies ° Share your currently playing Spotify or Apple Music track with 2 clicks ° Immediately play received tracks in either Spotify or Apple Music, regardless of how they were shared ° Share web page links ° Buddy contact cards with nicknames, custom profile pics, crews, and buddy-specific settings ° Mark pics as winners ° Blur controls for privacy ° Cloud storage and local image cache • Redesigned progress bar is more accurate, responsive, and cool-looking • Significant performance and stability upgrades • Liquid glass design elements for Tahoe • So much bug fixes

Major update! • Introducing Dock Pics: The photo sharing and music discovery service that’s built into Dock Party ° Sending and receiving pics is fun again with the unique Pic Parade view ° Quickly share a link to the Apple Music or Spotify track that you’re listening to ° Share webpage URLs • Redesigned progress bar is more accurate, responsive, and cool-looking • Significant performance and stability upgrades • Liquid glass design elements for Tahoe • So much bug fixes

3.0.4 • Fixed a bug that was causing the album name to appear in menu bar instead of artist name • Like button now works with the latest version of Apple Music • Better responsiveness to changes in Dock position and size • Fixed an issue that would cause Dock Party to steal focus from the active app when clicked 3.0.3 • New appearance option for player controls: “Backlight” • Right-clicking Dock Party in status bar now shows menu options for Settings, About, and Quit • More accurate matching of main window dimensions to Dock size • Fixed a bug that could cause track info text in the menu bar to get cut off 3.0.2 • New scrolling marquee option to display artist, song, or album • More scrolling marquee font options • Dock area album info text size now adjusts dynamically in proportion to window height • New size options for menu bar track info text 3.0.1 • Fixed a bug that prevented Dock Party from hiding along with the Dock if the active app entered full screen mode 3.0 Major update!!! • Dock Party now taps into system audio directly to monitor the Spotify and Apple Music audio streams. No more microphone access required! This offers a number of benefits: • Visualizers now work even when you’re using headphones • No drop in audio quality (“call mode”) when listening through duplex Bluetooth devices • No need for third-party audio routing apps or custom aggregate devices • Visualizers respond directly to the music without interference from ambient sounds Also in this update: • New Dock background animation: “Neon” • Enhanced pitch and waveform visualizers • Greater leveraging of GPU to boost efficiency and responsiveness of visualizers and background animations • RAM usage has gone from low to even lower • Fixed a bug that could prevent Dock Party from gaining automation access • General performance improvements and bug fixes

3.0.3 • New appearance option for player controls: “Backlight” • Right-clicking Dock Party in status bar now shows menu options for Settings, About, and Quit • More accurate matching of main window dimensions to Dock size • Fixed a bug that could cause track info text in the menu bar to get cut off 3.0.2 • New scrolling marquee option to display artist, song, or album • More scrolling marquee font options • Dock area album info text size now adjusts dynamically in proportion to window height • New size options for menu bar track info text 3.0.1 • Fixed a bug that prevented Dock Party from hiding along with the Dock if the active app entered full screen mode 3.0 Major update!!! • Dock Party now taps into system audio directly to monitor the Spotify and Apple Music audio streams. No more microphone access required! This offers a number of benefits: • Visualizers now work even when you’re using headphones • No drop in audio quality (“call mode”) when listening through duplex Bluetooth devices • No need for third-party audio routing apps or custom aggregate devices • Visualizers respond directly to the music without interference from ambient sounds Also in this update: • New Dock background animation: “Neon” • Enhanced pitch and waveform visualizers • Greater leveraging of GPU to boost efficiency and responsiveness of visualizers and background animations • Memory usage has gone from low to minuscule • Fixed a bug that could prevent Dock Party from gaining automation access • General performance improvements and bug fixes

Major update!!! • Dock Party now taps into system audio directly to monitor the Spotify and Apple Music audio streams. No more microphone access required! This offers a number of benefits: • Visualizers now work even when you’re using headphones • No drop in audio quality (“call mode”) when listening through duplex Bluetooth devices • No need for third-party audio routing apps or custom aggregate devices • Visualizers respond directly to the music without interference from ambient sounds Also in this update: • New scrolling marquee feature: Option to display the artist, title, or album name for the currently playing track • Album info text size now adjusts dynamically in proportion to window height • New size options for menu bar track info text • New Dock background animation: “Neon” • Enhanced pitch and waveform visualizers • Stability improvements to scrolling marquee • Greater leveraging of GPU to boost efficiency and responsiveness of visualizers and background animations • Memory usage has gone from low to minuscule • Main window now hides if active app is in full screen mode • Fixed a bug that could prevent Dock Party from gaining automation access • General performance improvements and bug fixes

Major update!!! • Dock Party now taps into system audio directly to monitor the Spotify and Apple Music audio streams. No more microphone access required! This offers a number of benefits: • Visualizers now work even when you’re using headphones • No drop in audio quality (“call mode”) when listening through duplex Bluetooth devices • No need for third-party audio routing apps or custom aggregate devices • Visualizers respond directly to the music without interference from ambient sounds Also in this update: • New Dock background animation: “Neon” • Enhanced pitch and waveform visualizers • Stability improvements to scrolling marquee • Greater leveraging of GPU to boost efficiency and responsiveness of visualizers and background animations • Memory usage has gone from low to minuscule • Fixed a bug that could prevent Dock Party from gaining automation access • General performance improvements and bug fixes Due to limitations in previous versions of macOS, Dock Party 3 requires macOS 14.2 (Sonoma) or higher.

Major update! • Dock Party now taps into system audio directly to monitor the Spotify and Apple Music audio streams. No more microphone access required! This offers a number of benefits: • Visualizers now work even when you’re using headphones • No drop in audio quality (“call mode”) when listening through duplex Bluetooth devices • No need for third-party audio routing apps or custom aggregate devices • Visualizers respond directly to the music without interference from ambient sounds Also in this update: • New Dock background animation: “Neon” • Enhanced pitch and waveform visualizers • Stability improvements to scrolling marquee • Greater leveraging of GPU to boost efficiency and responsiveness of visualizers and background animations • Memory usage has gone from low to minuscule • Fixed a bug that could prevent Dock Party from gaining automation access • General performance improvements and bug fixes Due to limitations in previous versions of macOS, Dock Party 3 requires macOS 14.2 (Sonoma) or higher.

• Scrolling marquee with customizable message • New dock background animations: “Emergency” and “Cylon” • Compatibility with third-party software to route audio directly to music visualizers rather than relying on microphone input • Reorganized Settings window • Significant performance and stability improvements

• Scrolling marquee with customizable message • Compatibility with third-party software to route audio directly to music visualizers rather than relying on microphone input • New dock background animations: “Emergency” and “Cylon” • Reorganized Settings window • Performance and stability improvements

• 2 new Dock background color animations: “Emergency” and “KITT” • New settings option prevents degradation of audio quality when listening to music with a Bluetooth headset • Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when clicking on album cover art or track meta data if no Spotify account was connected

• Amplitude visualizer has been re-coded to be even more responsive and CPU/energy efficient • New settings option prevents degradation of audio quality when listening to music with a Bluetooth headset • Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when clicking on album cover art if Spotify was not installed • Minor bug fixes

• Like/Love button • Detachable status bar popover window with player controls, large album art, progress bar, and track info • Optional controllable track progress bar that runs along the Dock and includes its own mini controls, elapsed and total time displays, and song info • More Dock tint color options including gradients and color cycling options • Save full-sized album artwork to disk with the new Save Artwork button • Amplitude visualizer has been re-coded to be even more responsive and CPU/energy efficient • Bug fixes

• Like/Love button • Detachable status bar popover window with player controls, large album art, progress bar, and track info • Optional controllable track progress bar that runs along the Dock and includes its own mini controls, elapsed and total time displays, and song info • More Dock tint color options including gradients and color cycling options • Save full-sized album artwork to disk with the new Save Artwork button • Amplitude visualizer has been rebuilt to be even more responsive and CPU/energy efficient • Bug fixes

• Like/Love button • Detachable status bar popover window with player controls, large album art, progress bar, and track info • Optional controllable track progress bar that runs along the Dock and includes its own mini controls, elapsed and total time displays, and song info • More Dock tint color options including gradients and color cycling options • Save full-sized album artwork to disk with the new Save Artwork button • Amplitude visualizer has been rebuilt to be even more responsive and CPU/energy efficient • Bug fixes

• Love/Like button • Detachable status bar popover window with player controls, large album art, progress bar, and track info • Controllable track progress bar that runs along the Dock and includes its own mini controls, elapsed and total time displays, and song info • More Dock tint color options including gradients and color cycling options • Shuffle and repeat controls • Save full-sized album artwork to disk with the new Save Artwork button • Buttons to search song and artist info on DuckDuckGo, YouTube, Genius Lyrics, Ultimate Guitar Tabs, and BandsInTown • Option to switch sides of player controls panel and track info panel • Click on album art to bring active music player to front • More settings options to adapt to a variety of screen sizes and Dock configurations

• macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility • Party mode: Music visualizer IN the Dock! • Universal binary for native performance on Apple Silicon (ARM) and Intel (x86) processors • Optional support for automatic Dock hiding/showing • Option to show the app icon (support for multiple desktops) • Option to replace the app icon with the album art of the currently playing track • Dynamic layout uses more precise Dock dimensions • Fixed a bug that was causing excessive processor usage • Fixed a volume control bug

• macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility • Party mode: Music visualizer IN the Dock! • Universal binary for native performance on Apple Silicon (ARM) and Intel (x86) processors • Optional support for automatic Dock hiding/showing • Option to show the app icon (support for multiple desktops) • Option to replace the app icon with the album art of the currently playing track • Dynamic layout uses more precise Dock dimensions • Fixed a bug that was causing increased processor usage

• macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility • Party mode: Music visualizer IN the Dock! • Universal binary for native performance on Apple Silicon (ARM) and Intel (x86) processors • Support for automatic Dock hiding/showing • Option to show the app icon or album art in the Dock (support for multiple desktops) • Dynamic layout uses more precise Dock dimensions