--- title: "Every Droppy droplet, and what each one is for" description: "All 38 droplets in Droppy's Store, grouped by what they do: productivity, media, AI, capture, files and system. What each one adds, and which to switch on first." canonical: "https://getdroppy.app/blog/every-droppy-droplet" last-updated: "2026-09-27" --- # Every Droppy droplet, and what each one is for [All posts](https://getdroppy.app/blog/) Droppy guides Jordy Spruit September 27, 2026 6 min read Droppy's first promise is that the top of your Mac should do something. Its second is that it should only do what you asked. Those pull in opposite directions, and droplets are how Droppy keeps both. Each one is a complete tool, a launcher, a screen recorder, a Pomodoro timer, that stays off until you switch it on in the Store. Off, it does not run, draw or ask for a permission. There are 38 of them at the time of writing. That is a lot to scroll through in Settings, so here is every one, grouped by what it is for, with the ones I would switch on first. **Direct answer:** open Settings, Droplet Store. Every droplet has a row with a switch and a page of its own settings. Most are built into Droppy and switch on instantly; a few, such as DropClip, Thaw and Teleprompter, install from the Store. All of them are included with a Droppy license. Start with Thunderstorm, Element Capture, Lyrics, Window Snap and OCR. ![Droppy's Dynamic Island in edit mode with the droplet tray.](https://getdroppy.app/assets/images/blog/real-ui/every-droppy-droplet-20261110.webp) Thirty-eight droplets, and only the ones you pick run. The Droplet Store in Droppy's real Settings window, with its filter across the top. ## The whole list, by category Tap a category The launcher, a radial menu, notes, tasks, focus, calls, a terminal and a teleprompter. Thunderstorm Ring Notes Obsidian Calendar Pomodoro Meetings Termi-Notch Weather Alfred Workflow Teleprompter DropClip Music controls for every player, lyrics, and a volume slider for every app. Apple Music Spotify Kaset YouTube Music Lyrics Audio Control On-device background removal and transcription, and a live view of your coding agents. AI Background Removal Voice Transcribe Agents Screenshots and recordings, text from anything on screen, and a camera mirror. Element Capture OCR Camera Share links, conversion, compression, Finder's right-click menu and local transfers. Droppy Cloud Converter Video Target Size PDF Compress Finder Services LocalSend Windows, notifications, sleep, the mouse, the keyboard, the menu bar and the lid. Window Snap Notifications High Alert LiquidMouse Mechey Thaw System Stats Emoji Picker Mac Duo Every droplet in Droppy's Store on September 27, 2026, grouped the way the Store groups them. ## Productivity **Thunderstorm** replaces Spotlight: apps, files, System Settings pages, a calculator with units and currencies, web search, and Droppy's own clipboard, shelf and droplets in one panel on Option-Space. It now runs [Raycast extensions](https://getdroppy.app/blog/thunderstorm-raycast-extensions) too. **Ring** opens a circle of buttons under your pointer while you hold a shortcut; move to one and let go. Fill it with a preset such as Element Capture's modes, or your own actions. Ring, rendered from the app: hold the shortcut, move, release. **Notes** is a notepad on the shelf that syncs with Apple Notes, and **Obsidian** opens your vault's Markdown files on the shelf, edited in either place. **Calendar** adds tasks in plain language, with lists and dates, synced with Apple Reminders, beside your events. **Pomodoro** is a focus timer with a single slider. **Meetings** mutes, stops the camera, shares or ends a call in Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp or Telegram from the notch. **Termi-Notch** drops a terminal down from the notch. **Weather** shows conditions and the hours ahead on the shelf and lock screen. **Alfred Workflow** sends files to the file tray or floating file tray from Alfred. Two come from the Store. **Teleprompter** scrolls your script on the shelf, right under the camera, so reading on a call looks like eye contact. **DropClip** puts a pill beside any text you select in any app, with copy, search, an AI rewrite with your own provider or one running on your Mac, and whatever actions you add. DropClip's pill appearing over a text selection, rendered on Droppy's own Dynamic Glass. ## Media **Apple Music** adds that app's own controls to the media widget, shuffle, repeat and love, plus its Up Next queue and motion artwork. **Spotify** connects to your Spotify account for its playback controls and artwork. **Kaset YouTube Music** does the same for YouTube Music through the Kaset app. **Lyrics** shows [timed lyrics](https://getdroppy.app/blog/live-lyrics-mac-notch) beside the song and on the lock screen. **Audio Control** gives every app its own volume slider, so the music can be quiet while a video stays loud. ## AI All three keep your data on the Mac. **AI Background Removal** cuts subjects out of images with an on-device model after a one-time download. **Voice Transcribe** turns recordings into text on the device. **Agents** watches your local Claude, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity and OpenCode sessions and shows their progress in the notch, with no network and no telemetry. ## Capture **Element Capture** captures a single UI element, an area, a window, the screen or a scrolling page, edits it with arrows, shapes, text and blur, and records the screen with a zoom that follows your pointer. I compared it with the best-known specialist in [Droppy vs CleanShot X](https://getdroppy.app/blog/droppy-vs-cleanshot-x). **OCR** pulls text out of anything on screen, an image or a PDF, on the Mac. **Camera** adds a mirror of your front camera below the shelf, for a check before a call. ## Files **Droppy Cloud** turns a file into a share link in seconds; files are removed after three days. Converting, compressing and resizing moved out of droplets in 16.1.2 beta 1: [Transform](https://getdroppy.app/features/transform), built into Droppy, changes formats and compresses a video to an exact size for Discord or email, locally. **Finder Services** adds Droppy to Finder's right-click menu. **LocalSend** sends files to any phone, tablet or computer running the free LocalSend app, over your own network. ## System **Window Snap** snaps windows to halves, thirds and quarters with shortcuts or a drag. **Notifications** shows macOS notifications in the notch and lets you reply to iMessage, WhatsApp and Telegram without opening them. **High Alert** keeps the Mac awake, indefinitely or on a timer. **LiquidMouse** smooths an external wheel mouse to feel closer to a trackpad. **Mechey** plays mechanical keyboard sounds as you type. **Thaw** installs and drives Toni Förster's menu bar manager. **System Stats** puts live CPU, memory, GPU, disk, battery or network cards on the shelf. **Emoji Picker** finds emoji from any app with a shortcut or a text trigger. And **Mac Duo** makes a MacBook's screen fold into the top of the display as the lid comes down. ## Where to start If you only switch on five, make them **Thunderstorm**, because you will use it a hundred times a day; **Element Capture**, because screenshots of one button are the most useful kind; **Lyrics**, because it costs nothing and makes the notch nicer to look at; **Window Snap**, because macOS still makes windows harder than it should; and **OCR**, because the day you need text out of a screenshot, you need it now. Everything else can wait until the day you need it. It is already there. ## Sources and version scope **Checked against the current product:** the droplet list and descriptions on the [Droplet Store page](https://getdroppy.app/features#droplets) and in Droppy's source, and the live Store catalogue on September 27, 2026, where DropClip, Thaw and Teleprompter each require Droppy 15.3.0 or later. Each droplet has a page in the [handbook](https://getdroppy.app/docs/droplets). The count changes as droplets are published; the Store in your copy of Droppy is always current.