On Windows, when you click a taskbar icon multiple times, the window is minimized and un-minimized. On macOS, however, doing so only reveals hidden or minimized windows but does not hide or minimize them again.

Click2Hide is an open-source app that brings that functionality to macOS. As the name suggests, it allows you to click Dock icons to hide and reveal them, which can be great for productivity, especially if you’re transitioning from Windows.

After installing and enabling the app from the menu bar, you can take advantage of the new functionality. Clicking Dock icons from apps with active windows will hide and reveal all those windows.

Essentially, it’s just like using the hide function in macOS, except that you don’t have to use a hotkey, and you can use the same action to both hide and show windows.

The nice thing is that you don’t have to sacrifice any existing functionality to make the most of Click2Hide. If the app you click is visible but not in the foreground, it will simply be brought to the top. If you click the icon again, it will be hidden.

Basically, your macOS experience won’t change in any way unless you click an app’s Dock icon when it’s already in focus. Nothing would happen in this situation in default macOS, but with this app, the window will be hidden.

While Click2Hide is particularly great for Windows users switching to macOS, anyone can benefit from it. Clicking Dock icons to hide or minimize apps seems like something that should be built into the OS or at least be offered as an optional feature.

Since you’re hiding and not minimizing windows, you also avoid any window animations, which some users aren’t big fans of, me included.