Booki

Smart dock for Windows — apps, folders, live widgets, clipboard history, and a floating notch.

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Why Booki

A dock, not a taskbar	Pin apps, folders, files, pictures and websites. Click to launch or focus an open window. Right-click a pin for recent files.
Arrange everything	Drag from the desktop to pin, drag out to unpin, drop on the bin to delete, group apps and widgets, reorder on the bar.
Live widgets	CPU/RAM/disk/battery/volume rings, clock, network, uptime, notes, clipboard history and now-playing — compact cards that do not stretch the dock.
Smart hide + notch	The dock tucks into a slim notch and comes back when you need it. Stays out of fullscreen games and videos. Notch size is adjustable in Settings.
Precise clicks	Clicks outside the painted dock pass through to the app behind it.
Fits Windows	Light/dark/system themes, wallpaper-aware accent, glass materials, size/spacing/radius, multi-monitor, five languages.
Private by design	No accounts, no telemetry, no cloud sync. Config stays in %APPDATA%\Booki. Clipboard memory is opt-in.
Small and native	Tauri 2 + Rust on system WebView2 — small installer, timers pause when the dock is hidden.

What's new in 0.68

• Fixed a crash on desktop PCs — a pinned battery widget threw on every poll on any machine without a battery, froze on a placeholder, and filled the log.
• Widgets line up — ring gauges and card artwork are sized from the space the card actually has, so nothing is clipped, and a vertical dock keeps one width for every widget.
• Lighter at rest — settings are cached instead of read from disk twelve times a second, two duplicate cursor watchers became one, and the clock stopped reformatting itself sixty times a minute.
• All five languages complete — Portuguese, French and German were each missing ninety strings and silently fell back to English.
• Usable from the keyboard — Enter and Space launch a focused tile, the menu key opens its actions, and live widgets announce their updates.
• Reduced motion is respected everywhere — including the two largest movements, which are drawn in JS and were never covered by the CSS setting.

Older notes live in Settings → What's new.

Gallery

Smart hide — the bar genies into the notch when you start working.	Folders — group pins and open them in a glass flyout.
Settings — live preview, visual pickers, searchable.	Any edge — a slim vertical column on the sides, widgets and all.

_{The notch: a little glass tab that stays at the taskbar edge while the dock is away.}

Install

1. Download Booki_*_x64-setup.exe from Releases (per-user, no admin).
2. Run it and launch Booki from the Start menu. Tray icon: show/hide, settings, quit.

Requires Windows 10/11 — WebView2 is fetched automatically if missing.

SmartScreen: this beta is not commercially code-signed yet. If Windows shows Windows protected your PC, choose More info → Run anyway.

Gestures

Gesture	Action
Click a pin	Launch it (or focus its window)
Drag from desktop → dock	Pin an app, folder, file or picture
Drag a pin out of the dock	Unpin it
Middle-click a pin	Open its location in Explorer
Right-click the dock	Add apps / widgets / profiles / settings
Double-click a widget	Jump to its style editor
Mouse wheel over Media (optional)	Raise or lower system volume
Alt + 1…9	Launch the Nth pin (modifier is configurable)
Push cursor into the screen edge	Reveal a hidden dock

Privacy

• Fully offline except: GitHub update checks (signed releases), and favicon fetch if you pin a website. No telemetry, no accounts, no data collection.
• Config: %APPDATA%\Booki\config.json (plus a config.bak.json safety copy). Export/import from Settings anytime.
• Uninstall keeps that folder by default so a reinstall restores your dock. Only the uninstaller checkbox Delete app data wipes it.
• Clipboard history is local. Restart memory is off by default; when enabled it is protected for your Windows user and can expire.
• Hidden from compatible captures by default; Settings can show the dock/notch in screenshots and recordings.
• In-app updates download the signed installer and keep your settings.
• "Start with Windows" writes HKCU\…\Run\Booki; uninstall clears that entry (and Explorer shell verbs) without deleting your config unless you ask.

Support

Booki is free and open source (MIT), by Punkable (@0xPunki).

Donations are optional:

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Questions or bugs: punkable@protonmail.com or open an issue. See SECURITY.md for vulnerabilities.

Tech stack

Layer	Tech
Shell	Tauri 2 (system WebView2)
Backend	Rust + windows
Frontend	Vanilla-JS dock + React settings (Vite)
Art	Fluent Emoji 3D (Microsoft, MIT)

Development

On Linux/macOS you can preview the UI in a browser — the frontend ships demo data without Tauri.

npm install
npm run dev # browser preview → http://localhost:1420
npm run tauri:dev # real app (Windows + Rust + WebView2)
npm run tauri:build # NSIS installer

Releases are built by CI on version tags (.github/workflows/release.yml).

License

MIT — do whatever makes you happy; credit is appreciated.

_{Emoji artwork: Fluent Emoji © Microsoft, MIT license.}

_{Made by Punkable · @0xPunki}