Dash for Mac
Instant search and offline access to any API documentation.
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Dash overview
Instant search and offline access to any API documentation you may need. Dash is an API Documentation Browser that gives your Mac instant offline access to 200+ API documentation sets and 100+ cheat sheets.
- Some (not all) of the supported API documentation sets: iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, Swift, Man Pages, Angular, Backbone, Bootstrap, C, C++, CoffeeScript, CSS, Dart, Django, Docker, Drupal, Go, Haskell, HTML, Ionic, Java SE, JavaScript, jQuery, Lua, MongoDB, Mono, MySQL, Node.js, Pandas, Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, Python, Qt, React, Redis, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Scala, SQLite, Underscore.js, Unity 3D, WordPress, Yii
- Generate docsets from: github.com, rubygems.org, godoc.org, packagist.org, maven.org, hackage.haskell.org, hexdocs.pm, pub.dartlang.org, cljdoc.org
- Browse and search Stack Overflow while offline
- Integrate Dash with 30+ code editors and apps
- Methods are conveniently shown in a special Table of Contents
- Fuzzy search. Don't let misspells get in your way
- Built for speed. Searching is almost instant
What’s new in version 8.0.0
AI Integration
Dash 8 introduces support for MCP (Model Context Protocol), a protocol that allows AI assistants like Claude to access your documentation directly. This means you can now ask AI tools to search through your installed docsets and get contextual help with your code.
An HTTP API has also been added, allowing you to programmatically list and search your installed docsets and get results as JSON.
Enable MCP integration in Settings > Integration.
Other Improvements
- Alfred workflow: Reworked search engine now runs in the background for more consistent behavior
- Interface: Results dropdown is now resizable
- Data management: Automatic docset updates are disabled when low data mode is enabled
- Permissions: Improved clipboard permission handling
- Various stability and performance improvements
macOS Tahoe
I'm being cautious regarding Liquid Glass and have decided to keep the current interface for now. Interface changes will be considered in a future update, based on how the macOS community responds to Liquid Glass.
Your feedback is important! Please contact me with your thoughts on Liquid Glass or any other aspects of Dash.
Dash for Mac
$16.80
In English
Version 8.0.0
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User Ratings
Sep 5 2018
Version: 4.5.0
I tried it for a while and even bought a license for it. But it faded away from my daily workflow because I ran into more than a few cases in which the documentation for some .js libraries wasn't available in Dash format. It can be handy if you need offline access to many languages and frameworks. But, in practice, I'm very rarely off-line, and I find it more versatile to search on Google.
Mar 24 2018
Version: 4.1.6
@ dev.
[What's New
Version 4.1.6:
Fixed an embarrassing issue which I can't publicly reveal in the release notes.]
Could it be ...was already licensed for al? :)
kidding !!
[What's New
Version 4.1.6:
Fixed an embarrassing issue which I can't publicly reveal in the release notes.]
Could it be ...was already licensed for al? :)
kidding !!
