---
title: "Action Ring"
description: "One shortcut opens a ring of buttons under your pointer. Hold it, move to a button and let go to run it. Fill the ring with a preset such as Element Capture or Window Snap, mix your own, and use up to three rings to combine your actions."
canonical: "https://getdroppy.app/docs/droplets/ring"
last-updated: "2026-09-09"
---

# Action Ring

Hold a shortcut, pick from a ring of actions

Hold one shortcut and a ring of buttons opens in the middle of your screen. Move to a button and let go to run it, or tap the shortcut and click. Fill the ring with a preset from your capture, window and dictation droplets, mix any of their actions into your own ring, and switch on a second inner ring to keep two sets under one shortcut.

## What it does

- One shortcut for the whole ring
- Presets for Element Capture, Window Snap, Voice Transcribe and more
- Mix any actions into your own ring
- Single, dual or triple rings
- Hold, move and let go, or click a button

## How to use it

1. Record one shortcut. Hold it and a ring of buttons opens at your pointer; move to one and let go to run it. Or tap to open, then click.
2. Fill it from a preset built out of your capture, window and dictation Droplets, then swap in whatever else you want.
3. Turn on a second inner ring, or a third, to keep two or three sets of actions under the same shortcut.

## Where it shows up

- Global shortcut

## Workflows

One shortcut instead of eight

Element Capture's modes, Window Snap's layouts and Voice Transcribe all fit on one ring, so you remember one combination instead of a page of them.

A different ring inside one app

App overrides give a specific app its own ring, so the same key offers capture actions in a browser and window actions in your editor.

Your own macros

Add a keyboard macro, a macOS Shortcut, or just an app to open. They sit beside Droppy's own actions and look the same.

## Tips

- Almost everything is available: capture modes, OCR area and file, every snap action, voice modes, media transport, meeting controls, the notch and any widget in it, Thunderstorm, clipboard and copy-and-favourite, the Tray Switcher, Termi-Notch, Stay Awake with a button per duration, Pomodoro with pause and stopwatch, Droppy Cloud, tasks, a new note, Droppy Settings, lock screen and sleep.
- Hold, move and release is faster than tap and click once your hand knows where a button is. The ring does not move between uses.

## Getting it

- **Category**: Productivity
- **Setup**: Record a shortcut and pick a preset.
- **Where to turn it on**: Settings, Store, or [open it in Droppy](droppy://extension/ring) if the app is installed.