Support
Questions, bugs or ideas for a widget: write and you'll get an answer from the person who makes Pier. Ideas can also go on the roadmap.
When something isn't working, add a diagnostics report: click Pier's icon in the menu bar and choose Export Diagnostics. It's a short text file you can read before sending, with no license key, file paths or app names in it.
Installing
Open Pier.dmg, drag Pier to Applications and open it. On first launch Pier copies your apps and folders from Apple's Dock, in the order you had them, and asks for the permissions it needs.
Permissions
- Accessibility lets Pier list and raise windows. It's needed for the dock to work.
- Screen Recording lets window previews show pictures. Without it they show window titles only.
- Calendar and Reminders are asked for only when you add a widget that shows them.
Change any of these in System Settings, under Privacy & Security.
Licenses
- Every feature is in the 14-day free trial. Buy Pier or Pier Forever, then paste the key from your receipt into Pier.
- Pier covers up to 3 Macs and Pier Forever up to 5. To move a key, choose Deactivate on This Mac on the old Mac first.
- When your year of updates ends, Pier keeps working, and every release from that year is yours to keep.
A new Mac
In Customize, under Profiles, choose Save Current Dock, then Export to save it as a file. On the new Mac, choose Import and pick that file. Your widget keys stay in the old Mac's Keychain, so you'll add them again.
Getting Apple's Dock back
Quit Pier. Its settings for Apple's Dock were saved before it changed them, and quitting puts them back exactly, even after a crash.
Requirements
macOS 13 Ventura or later, on a Mac with Apple silicon or an Intel processor.
More answers are in the FAQ, and what Pier keeps and sends is in the privacy notes.