Instruction manual
Every setting on your Mac, one click away instead of three.
JumpDock puts shortcuts to System Settings panes, privacy sections and utilities in your menu bar. This manual covers building your list, arranging it, reaching the one setting macOS gives no link to, and what a license changes.
01 Overview
JumpDock is a menu bar app. You pick destinations from a catalog of 32, and each one you enable becomes a shortcut you can reach in a single click — a System Settings pane, a specific privacy section inside one, or a utility app.
There is no window to keep open and nothing to learn. The app sits in the menu bar, out of the way, until you need it.
One place you can jump to — a settings pane, a privacy section, or a utility. 32 to choose from.
A destination you have turned on, with its own icon, color and optional keyboard shortcut.
Scrolling a pane to the exact section you asked for, rather than dropping you at the top — see Security Settings.
Where you build the list. Open it from any JumpDock menu, or press ⌘,.
02 Quick start
A fresh copy starts with one shortcut — Security Settings — already in your menu bar.
- Click the JumpDock icon in your menu bar. It opens System Settings and scrolls straight to the Gatekeeper controls, which is the shortcut the app was built for.
- Open the settings window. Right-click the menu bar icon and choose Settings…, or press ⌘, when JumpDock is frontmost.
- Click Add Shortcut… and pick a destination — Displays, Screen Recording, Terminal, whatever you reach for most.
- Tick the ones you want active. On a free copy exactly one is active at a time; a license activates the whole list. See Your license.
- Give one a keyboard shortcut if you want to skip the click entirely — see Colors & keyboard shortcuts.
03 Your shortcut list
Everything happens in the Shortcuts list at the top of the settings window. Each row is one destination.
Adding and removing
Add Shortcut… offers every destination not already in your list, grouped the way this manual groups them. Remove All clears the list back to a single entry; it asks first, and it tells you what it is about to do.
Removing a shortcut does not lose its settings. Add it again and its color and keyboard shortcut come back.
Reordering
Drag rows to reorder them. Order matters in two places: the first row is what the single menu bar icon opens on a plain click, and in the menu bar your icons appear in list order.
Turning them on and off
The tick box on each row controls whether that shortcut is active. An unticked row keeps its settings and simply stops appearing in the menu bar.
05 Colors & keyboard shortcuts
A color per shortcut
Each shortcut can carry its own tint, so you recognize them by shape and color rather than reading them: Automatic, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, or graphite.
Automatic is the standard template icon, which follows the menu bar's own light and dark appearance. The others are fixed colors that stay put whichever appearance you are in.
Keyboard shortcuts
Any destination can have a keyboard shortcut, which works system-wide — you do not need JumpDock to be frontmost. Click Record Shortcut on the row and press the combination you want.
These are the fastest way to use the app: the whole point of a shortcut to Displays is not having to go looking for Displays, and a keystroke skips even the click.
06 Everywhere you can jump
32 destinations, in three groups. JumpDock checks each one against your Mac at launch, so nothing is offered that your system does not have.
Privacy sections
These open System Settings directly at a section inside Privacy & Security, not merely at the pane.
Screen Recording · Microphone Access · Camera Access · Location Services · Accessibility Access · Automation Access · Files & Folders Access
Settings panes
Displays · Sound · Bluetooth · Network · Notifications · Focus · Keyboard · Trackpad · Sharing · Software Update · Login Items · Time Machine · Startup Disk · Users & Groups · Screen Time · Wallpaper
Utilities
Terminal · Disk Utility · Activity Monitor · Console · System Information · Screenshot · Audio MIDI Setup · Bluetooth Explorer
07 Security Settings & Accessibility
The Security Settings shortcut is the one JumpDock was built around. It opens Privacy & Security and scrolls to the bottom, where the “Allow applications from” setting and the list of blocked apps you have to approve live.
macOS gives that section no direct link. Other shortcut apps can open the pane; getting to the setting itself means scrolling, and scrolling another app's window is something macOS only permits through the Accessibility API.
The one permission JumpDock asks for
That scroll is the only reason JumpDock ever requests Accessibility access, and macOS asks the first time you use the shortcut. Every other destination in the catalog is a plain link or an app launch and needs no permission at all.
If the scroll does not happen
Check that JumpDock is ticked in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility. If the grant is there but nothing scrolls, remove JumpDock from that list and add it back — the permission is tied to the exact copy of the app, so replacing the app can leave a stale entry behind.
08 Your license
What is free
One shortcut is free, permanently, and it is whichever one you enable first — not a particular destination chosen for you. You can change your mind whenever you like. A free copy never expires and never asks you for anything.
What a license adds
A one-time purchase makes the rest of your list active too, each with its own menu bar icon, color and keyboard shortcut. There is no seat limit: one license covers every Mac you own — buy once, use the same key everywhere.
Buying and activating
- Click Buy a License in the settings window, or on the JumpDock page at fulwave.com. Checkout is handled by Lemon Squeezy.
- Your key arrives on the receipt and by email.
- Paste it into the License key field in the settings window and click Activate.
Once activated, the settings window shows who the license belongs to, so you can see at a glance which account a Mac is running on.
Moving a Mac, or stopping using one
Deactivate releases this Mac. The shortcut list goes back to one active entry here, and the license becomes free to activate elsewhere. Your shortcuts are kept — they come straight back if you activate again.
If activation fails
Two different messages, meaning two different things. “That key was not accepted” means the key itself was refused — check for a typo, or that you pasted the JumpDock key rather than one from another purchase. “Could not reach Lemon Squeezy” is a network problem, not a key problem; try again when you are online.
09 Privacy & the network
JumpDock has no account, no analytics and no tracking, and it collects nothing about how you use it.
A free copy never touches the internet at all. If you enter a license key, JumpDock contacts Lemon Squeezy to check it — when you activate, when you deactivate, and on launch when the last check is old enough to be worth repeating. It sends the key and your Mac's name, and nothing else. If you are offline it keeps working on the last answer it had, rather than locking you out.
Your key is stored in your Mac's Keychain. The name shown in the settings window and the date of the last check are stored in JumpDock's own preferences. All of it stays on your Mac, and it is removed when you deactivate.
The full policy is at fulwave.com/FulwaveTimer/PrivacyPolicy.html.
10 Installing & updating
JumpDock is distributed as a disk image from fulwave.com, signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Drag the app to the Applications folder in the image window — that gesture matters more than it looks.
To update, download the current version and replace the copy in Applications. JumpDock does not check for updates in the background — the only network connection it ever makes is the license check.
11 FAQ & troubleshooting
The menu bar icon is missing.
Almost always a full menu bar. Open the settings window — if an icon could not be placed, JumpDock says so there. Switch to one icon with a menu, or quit something else that lives in the menu bar.
A shortcut opens the right pane but does not scroll.
That is the Accessibility permission. See Security Settings & Accessibility.
A destination I want is not in the list.
The catalog is curated. macOS vends over 200 settings extensions, most with names no one would recognize, and a menu of all of them would be worse than no menu. If something genuinely useful is missing, write in — adding a destination is a small change.
Why is JumpDock not on the App Store?
App Store apps must be sandboxed, and a sandboxed app cannot read System Settings' window at all — which means it could open the Privacy & Security pane but never scroll to the Gatekeeper controls. The app's headline feature cannot survive the sandbox, so JumpDock is sold direct instead.
Do I need a license on each Mac?
No. One license covers every Mac you own; paste the same key into each.
I replaced my Mac.
Deactivate on the old one if you still can, then activate on the new one. If the old Mac is gone, just activate — there is no seat limit to run out of.
12 Support
Questions, bug reports, and requests for destinations that ought to be in the catalog are all welcome.
Email FulwaveTimer+JumpDock@gmail.com
Web fulwave.com/JumpDock
Support form fulwave.com/Support
It helps to say which version you are running — the settings window shows it — and what macOS version you are on.