Introducing Side Dock—the smart sidebar that never gave us

Mohammed Nihal · 2026-04-26T01:25:17+00:00

Hello Nothing Community, I'm Mohammed Nihal, and I've been working on something that I think a lot of you will use. After a month of working with designer **@"ItzNotHJ"#107050** , **Side Dock Closed Beta is now live**. This is a productivity sidebar made just for Nothing devices. **Why I Made This** I like how clean Nothing OS looks, but I had to switch apps a lot to do simple things. I wanted tools that were strong but not always there, tools that show up when you need them and disappear when you don't. So I made **Side Dock**, a simple gesture-based sidebar that lets you quickly get to useful tools without making your home screen look messy or ruining the Nothing vibe. **What Side Dock Does Side Dock lives on the edge of your screen.\*\*** Swipe the tab from anywhere to open useful tools instantly. **Current Beta Features** 1\. **📱 Quick App Access**: Start your most used apps from any place on your phone. 2\. **📋 Smart Clipboard**: A clipboard with saved copy-paste items to keep track of your data. 3\. **✂️ Automatic Cropping**: Removes unnecessary status bars, navigation bars, and empty space around images. 4\. **🎙️ Voice Flow**: Speak naturally and have your speech translated into well-formatted text. 5\. **📄 Summary**: Create concise summaries out of long texts like articles, messages, or documents. **Made with care** \- Few permissions - Made to work best with Nothing devices \- UI for gestures with one hand \- Light and smooth \- Focused on privacy, with optional cloud features **Designer:** @"ItzNotHJ"#107050 **Developer:** @"Mohammed Nihal"#80412 We made Side Dock feel like it belonged in Nothing OS. \- No flashy nonsense \- No extra features \- No mess Tools that are always useful and ready when you need them. **Your comments shape the plan.** **Access to Closed Beta** 1\. First, sign up for the beta group 2\. After that, get it from the Play Store. ![](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1493474777992790056/1497564750253396108/Frame_7.png?ex=69eea41b&is=69ed529b&hm=b68ef91b2927c6c32e2896899695dc309dff9ffcc0e2385e270e4a73c2c5899d&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1463&height=823 "banner")

BatVet1017

Mohammed Nihal That makes a lot of sense as I did download the on-model AI. Sure, I will try again the entirety of the AI features and let you know if I have some suggestions, thanks mate!

Mohammed Nihal

BatVet1017 Welcome 🤗

BatVet1017

Mohammed Nihal I have been using more of the AI features and I love Snippets and Snap Cut and you weren’t kidding about Snippets. I don’t understand the use of the clipboard one yet! Good job! I will wait for the new features then and thanks for adding arranging feature for the tools!

Mohammed Nihal

BatVet1017 I’m happy to see that you enjoy Snippets and Snap Cut.

Regarding the clipboard feature – it is more like a persistent alternative to the basic copy-paste.

While Gboard automatically clears the clipboard, our app saves everything you copy from up to 3 months.

So the more you copy things on a regular basis, the more valuable you’ll find the feature.

And, yes, it is only a first step, Many new things to come soon. Feel free to suggest something, please!

Mohd_Isham

Hy I don’t want to see this - what to do?

Mohammed Nihal

Mohd_Isham Inorder to hide it, press and hold then click on turn off, another drawer will show up inside the toggle off side dock.

Mohd_Isham

Mohammed Nihal

Mohd_Isham ngl, you wouldn’t have to deal with the annoying floating dock once HSUI takes the crown 👀

FenilModh

So I got premium. And was trying everything out. In half a day,it used 2.5 gb of storage. I’m guessing AI? The storage will keep on increasing with more usage right?

Plus on clicking the area around bar, it opens the pill. That gets annoying when the area you want to use it around the bar and you try to click it and instead it opens pill and you just can’t use the area around bar. I’m guessing you can bypass it by using the camera bazel as the bar and pill? Like swipe around camera and it will open pill? So that some area of phone doesn’t become useless or annoying.

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