This is the first beta since Droppy 16.0.1, so it carries everything the 16.1 nightlies tried out. The menu bar icon becomes a Command Center, music gets a player that floats over your apps, and files get one place to convert and compress.
Your menu bar icon, rebuilt
Clicking the Droppy icon now opens pages of tiles for music, switches, captures and live stats. Pick one of seven layouts, or keep the short menu if you prefer it.
Music that floats
The new player lives in the menu bar and can float over your apps in three sizes you swipe between. It shows synced lyrics and Playing Next, and it can sit on the lock screen without covering the clock.
One place for every file job
Drop files on Transform in the notch and turn them into smaller, converted, resized or zipped copies. It replaces the Converter, Video Compress and PDF Compress droplets and keeps their settings.
Thunderstorm learns new tricks
The launcher can now answer questions, do quick sums and find files by name. With MCP turned on, apps like Claude and Codex can ask Droppy for things, and Droppy checks with you first.
And a long list more
Window Switcher and Dock Previews arrive as droplets, coding agents get little mascots that move while they work, and the Calendar widget now looks like the iPhone's.
Fixes you will notice
Connecting a Bluetooth mouse or headphones no longer crashes Droppy, and slow window queries no longer freeze it. A Mac that could not write its license to the keychain keeps it now instead of asking again.
Command-Tab in the Window Switcher now follows the order you used your apps, like the macOS switcher, so a single tap flips back. Synced lyrics stay with the singer instead of stalling on a line.
Hundreds of smaller fixes cover alerts, captures, Settings search, the shelf and the clipboard. Droppy also stays connected in Spain during LaLiga matches, when some internet providers block its old server addresses.
Calmer, lighter, easier to read
Clipboard items are now glass cards that show the app, title and age at a glance. The blur around the open shelf and island now fades out from the edge the way it does on an iPhone.
Droppy uses less CPU, energy and memory, most of all while music plays or the Mac sleeps. Text in the Command Center, launcher, Clipboard and dialogs stays readable over bright and busy wallpapers.
Many more details are smoother, from tinted Liquid Glass to a Window Switcher that opens faster and fades more gently.