Droppy 16 is my biggest update yet. Anyone can now build a droplet with DroppyKit, publish it through the public Droplet Store, and reach every Droppy user without waiting for an app update.
These notes cover everything since the last stable release, Droppy 14.2.0. The 15 betas and the nightlies were checkpoints along the way, so if you are coming from 14.2.0, all of this is new to you.
Droppy is open to every developer
DroppyKit is a SwiftUI SDK for building droplets that sit on the shelf, run as live activities, live in the menu bar or on the lock screen. The Droplet Store is now a public repository: a droplet arrives as a merge request, a person reviews it, and merging it publishes it to everyone. Droppy Playground, a free separate app, lets you try any droplet, or your own, before buying anything.
Thunderstorm, Droppy's Spotlight replacement, is rebuilt as a proper launcher, with favourites, a choice of which results it shows and a switch for every System Settings page. Droppy Account sits at the top of Settings, with your license, every Mac and iPhone on it, and the droplets you have made.
Screen recording with its own studio
Element Capture now records the display, a window or an area on macOS 26. The camera follows your pointer and zooms in on every click, and the recording opens in a full editing studio for zooms, hidden areas, captions, backgrounds and export. Around it, 82 more additions include a Hyper key, Google Tasks, Teleprompter, DropClip and Mac Duo.
The fixes that mattered most
A single file that could never be sent used to hold Droppy Sync up for everything behind it. It is now set aside, so the rest keeps syncing. Droppy no longer crashes after several screenshots in a row or when automatic naming reads non-Latin text, no longer freezes after a click in the Settings sidebar, and OCR works again on macOS 27.
Another 290 fixes cover browser media, Apple TV, Droppy Sync, Mac Duo, menus and the notch.
Native, faster and lighter
Every Settings page is now built on the native macOS grouped form, so Settings looks and works like System Settings. The shelf starts opening twice as fast, and every shelf and island animation can be interrupted mid-motion.
Droppy Sync writes a small fraction of what it used to, which could reach gigabytes a day, and Droppy uses less CPU and memory across the shelf, media, clipboard and idle time. The remaining 263 refinements include Liquid Glass dialogs, a rebuilt clipboard and a new onboarding.