# Hook 3.3 public BETA is available for testing
**URL:** https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hook-3-3-public-beta-is-available-for-testing/3790
**Category:** Releases
**Created:** [September 18, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hook-3-3-public-beta-is-available-for-testing/3790 "2021-09-18T00:37:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hook-3-3-public-beta-is-available-for-testing/3790/1 "2021-09-18T00:37:22Z")
Hook Version 3.3 public **BETA** (4513; Integration v. 178) is [now available for testing.](https://hookproductivity.com/release-notes/hook-3-3)
### Executive Summary
- Hook app can now be brought entirely [to the foreground](#fg), with its own menubar and Dock icon. This is just the first step towards adding many new foreground app features to Hook. However, the popup window remains the main mode of interaction.
- Hook now supports [Apple’s Photos app](https://hookproductivity.com/help/integration/using-hook-with-apple-photos/). Super handy!
- The `Focus on Link in Clipboard` command (introduced in [Hook 3.2](https://hookproductivity.com/release-notes/hook-3-2)) is now shown in Hook’s [Gear menu](https://hookproductivity.com/help/hook-window/gear-menu/).
- and more improvements and fixes.
### For more information and download
For more information and a link to the download please see [Hook 3.3 public BETA – Hook](https://hookproductivity.com/release-notes/hook-3-3/).
### Gratitude
Thank you to users who have made suggestions, reported issues, contribute to the forum, read the forum, and/or simply use Hook.
---
### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2021, 5:37am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hook-3-3-public-beta-is-available-for-testing/3790/2 "2021-09-18T05:37:33Z")
the foreground mode may take some getting used to. But with additional functionality we can build on it, we think it will be worth it.
But if you want to turn it off, I should point out the following from the release notes:
> Don’t want foreground mode? No worries: you can disable foreground mode (i.e., force Hook to operate in background mode, like it used to), via this Terminal.app (command line) incantation:
>
> `defaults write com.cogsciapps.hook background.app.mode 1`
>
> If you use LaunchBar, then you’ll recognize that this setting is quite similar to LaunchBar’s `Show Dock Icon` preference.
---
### Author:  [@noone](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/noone)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2021, 10:26am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hook-3-3-public-beta-is-available-for-testing/3790/3 "2021-09-18T10:26:35Z")
oops the link downloads a diskimage which contains 3.2.1
---
### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hook-3-3-public-beta-is-available-for-testing/3790/4 "2021-09-18T15:34:36Z")
Both
> [@LucB](#):
>
> Hook Version 3.3 public **BETA** (4513; Integration v. 178) is [now available for testing.](https://hookproductivity.com/release-notes/hook-3-3)
and
> [@LucB](#):
>
> For more information and a link to the download please see [Hook 3.3 public BETA – Hook](https://hookproductivity.com/release-notes/hook-3-3/).
point to `https://hookproductivity.com/release-notes/hook-3-3/` which points to `https://hookproductivity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Hook-productivity-app-3.3-beta.dmg_.zip` . When I mount the DMG I see Hook.app which is `3.3 beta` …
tested on two different Macs (part of our release process).
Is there a different link I am not saying?
**8:42 AM** : I also grepped for `3.*2.*1` through the Markdown source of the download file and couldn’t come up with anything relevant…
---
### Author:  [@noone](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/noone)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hook-3-3-public-beta-is-available-for-testing/3790/5 "2021-09-18T17:02:11Z")
weird. must be my bad. sorry for the false alarm 😬
---
### Author:  [@noone](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/noone)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2021, 6:41am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hook-3-3-public-beta-is-available-for-testing/3790/6 "2021-09-19T06:41:03Z")
my download manager says i downloaded 3.2.1 from [https://hookproductivity.com/release-notes/hook-3-3](https://hookproductivity.com/release-notes/hook-3-3) so i dont know what happened but its fixed now so
---
### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hook-3-3-public-beta-is-available-for-testing/3790/7 "2021-09-19T15:14:09Z")
thanks for letting us know.
---
### Author:  [@WJJP](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/WJJP)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hook-3-3-public-beta-is-available-for-testing/3790/8 "2021-09-20T21:45:37Z")
I would like to be able to remove Hook from being visible in the Dock, while still having Hook in the menubar – _ **without** _ having to run a command line action every time. It is not uncommon for macOS apps to have the toggles available in preferences for being visible in the Dock and for being visible in the menubar.
---
### Author:  [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2021, 6:31am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hook-3-3-public-beta-is-available-for-testing/3790/9 "2021-09-27T06:31:38Z")