Docker, at
Native Speed.
A fast, native Docker management app — fully functional on macOS today, with Windows on the way. Opens in well under a second, with no Electron in sight.
Containers
Images
Volumes
Networks
Live Logs
Stats & Exec
<1s
Window Start
0
Electron
Any
Engine
The VM Was Never the Problem
Docker Desktop's slowness mostly isn't the Linux VM. It's everything wrapped around it.
Electron Everything
A whole browser ships along just to draw a list of containers. The UI eats memory before your first container starts.
Heavyweight Backend
Layers of backend services idle in the background, burning CPU and RAM whether you’re using Docker or not.
A Slow IPC Chain
Every click crosses a long chain of processes before it reaches the daemon. The lag you feel is plumbing, not containers.
The VM Is Actually Fast
A WSL2 utility VM cold-boots in a second or two with dynamic memory. The virtualization layer was fast all along.
Everything Docker, One Fast Window
A system-tray presence plus a full management window that's ready before you finish the click.
Truly Native UI
A native desktop app — no web view, no bundled browser. Tray icon for quick actions, full window for real work, starting in well under a second.
The Whole Picture
Containers grouped by compose project, images, volumes, and networks — with live logs, stats, and exec, all in one window.
Attaches to Any Engine
On macOS, Dockerizit auto-discovers whatever engine you already run — Docker Desktop, Colima, plain dockerd, and more — from DOCKER_HOST, the current context, or well-known sockets.
Owns the Engine on Windows
On Windows, Dockerizit runs a real Docker daemon inside a minimal custom WSL2 distro, exposed through its own named pipe with an auto-registered docker context.
Engine Lifecycle Control
Start and stop the engine with its own tooling, with liveness probes and eager background start so it’s warm when you need it.
Shells Where You Want Them
Open docker exec shells straight into your terminal. Inspect a container without leaving your keyboard.
Two Platforms, One Philosophy
Fit into the engine you have, or bring one of our own.
macOS
Daily DriverFully functional today. Attaches to your existing engine — Docker Desktop, Colima, plain dockerd, and more — and can start and stop it with the flavor's own tooling. Signed and notarized builds.
Windows
In ProgressThe headline act: Dockerizit owns the engine outright — a real Docker daemon in a minimal custom WSL2 distro, a lean named-pipe-to-vsock data path, and eager background start. The engine layer is built; integration testing is underway.
No account, no telemetry dashboard, no subscription nag. Just your containers, fast.
Downloads coming soon
Your Containers Deserve Better
Dockerizit is coming soon and shipping fast — new builds land with nearly every push.
Built by Andrew, a solo developer who got tired of waiting for a container list to render.