Droppy, explained.

On a MacBook with a notch, Droppy lives in the notch and grows out of it. On an iMac, a Mac mini or any external display, the same surface appears as a floating Dynamic Island pill instead. Nothing is missing on a Mac without a notch, and you choose which of the two shapes each display uses.

Everything runs locally. Files you drop, text you copy and screens you capture stay on your Mac unless you deliberately share them. The only two features that talk to a server are Droppy Cloud, which uploads what you choose, and Droppy Sync, which carries end to end encrypted records to your iPhone.

The four things it does

What you need

1. Download Droppy

   Get the .dmg from getdroppy.app. The download is signed and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens it without a warning.

2. Drag Droppy to Applications

   Open the disk image and drag the app into the Applications folder shown beside it. Droppy has to live in Applications: some features refuse to run from the disk image or the Downloads folder, and Droppy tells you if it finds itself in the wrong place.

3. Launch it

   Droppy appears at the top of your screen and in the menu bar. Onboarding walks you through the permissions it needs and lets you pick your first Droplets.

4. Activate, or start the trial

   Enter your license key under Settings, License. Without a key, the 3-day trial runs everything, so you can try the whole app first.

Updating

Droppy updates itself, and an update never touches your data. Settings, clipboard history, shelf contents, Droplet configuration and your license all carry across, including a jump between release channels.

The two that matter on day one

Everything else is optional and asked for in context. The full list, with what each one unlocks, is on Permissions.

If a prompt never appeared

macOS shows each privacy prompt once. If you dismissed one, open Settings, Permissions in Droppy and use that row's button: it either asks macOS directly or jumps straight to the right pane in System Settings. Full Disk Access needs Droppy to relaunch after you grant it, and the row says so.

The menu bar icon

The icon opens Droppy's own menu: your active Droppy Cloud shares with a delete button for each, Voice Transcribe's Quick Record, High Alert, the Basket, Settings, and the update check.

You can hide the icon entirely under Settings, General, and bring it back by right-clicking the notch silhouette where it used to sit.

Opening Settings

Right-click the notch or the island to open Settings from anywhere. What that right-click does is itself a setting, under Settings, Accessibility: open Settings, or hide the surface until you right-click the same spot again.

Settings has a search field of its own. It searches every setting on every page as well as the Droplet catalogue, so if you know roughly what a thing is called you never have to remember which tab it is on.

Dock icon and launch at login

Droppy runs without a Dock icon by default, which also keeps it out of ⌘Tab. Turn the Dock icon on under Settings, General, Startup and visibility if you would rather have it. The same card holds Launch at login, which needs Droppy allowed under System Settings, General, Login Items.

How you interact with it

• Hover opens the shelf. Hover delays are separate for your main Mac and for external displays, under Settings, Shelf.
• Drag onto it and it opens to take the drop, wherever the drag started.
• Click runs whatever you assigned to a notch click under Settings, Live Activities.
• Two-finger swipe moves between the shelf, Now Playing and the widget pages, and scrubs inside the media controls. Turn gestures on or off under Settings, Shelf, Gestures.
• Right-click opens Settings, or hides the surface, depending on what you set under Settings, Accessibility.

Shape, size and appearance

Under Settings, Theming you pick the surface style for notched displays and for notchless displays independently, so a MacBook can use the notch while the monitor beside it uses the island. Width and height for both shapes are adjustable under Settings, Live Activities, along with island position.

External displays and fullscreen

The file tray

Drag any file, folder, image or selection to the top of the screen. The shelf opens to take it and holds it until you drag it out somewhere else, drop it on a Quick Action, or clear it. Items can be pinned so they survive automatic clean-up.

Pages and navigation

The shelf has three pages: Home, Tray and Widgets. Their buttons sit below the shelf and can be hidden, in which case you move between pages with a two-finger swipe instead. The tray button can also be set to appear only while files are actually waiting.

Custom Shelf widgets

Any Droplet with a shelf surface can be placed on the shelf, alone or beside another one. Widgets available today cover files, weather, media, notifications, High Alert, Termi-Notch, Pomodoro, camera, Voice Transcribe, Calendar, Notes, Obsidian, Thaw, Agents, Mechey, clipboard, System Stats, OCR and Audio Control.

Widgets that are mostly a text field, meaning Notes, Obsidian and Termi-Notch, take keyboard focus when you open them on their own, so the cursor is already in the field. Widgets that are not text fields never steal focus.

Timing and behaviour

Turn the row on and choose its tiles under Settings, General, Quick Actions. Tiles that depend on an app you do not have installed are simply not offered.

The Basket exists for the drag you have not finished planning: gather files from three folders, then drop the whole pile in one move. It follows your pointer instead of living at the top of the screen, so it works the same on every display.

How to reveal it

• Shake while dragging. Sensitivity runs from low to very high under Settings, Basket.
• Instant appear brings it in the moment a drag starts, with no shake at all.
• A drag shortcut reveals it on a key you hold while dragging. Setting one turns shake and instant reveal off, because the key is now the deliberate signal.

Appear and hide delays are adjustable, so the Basket can be eager or patient depending on how you work.

Single Basket or Multi-Basket

In Single Basket mode there is only ever one basket. In Multi-Basket mode, jiggling while a basket is already open spawns another one, so you can sort a pile into several destinations in a single pass.

The Basket Switcher shows every open basket at once and moves between them. Give it a shortcut on the Shortcuts page.

Baskets carry the same Quick Action tiles as the shelf, so a gathered pile can go to AirDrop, a cloud link or Mail without being dropped anywhere first.

History holds text, rich text, links, images, colors and file references. Entries can be pinned, favorited and tagged, and text recognized by OCR is indexed alongside the image it came from, so searching for a word in a screenshot finds the screenshot.

Using it

• Open history with the shortcut you record on the Shortcuts page. It works from any app.
• Search by typing. With auto-focus search on, your first keystroke opens the search field already carrying that character; with it off, nothing is focused at open, so the arrow keys navigate and Esc closes in one press.
• Type filters narrow the list to one kind of entry from a rail beside it.
• Copy + favorite is a second shortcut that copies an entry and stars it in one press.
• Item shortcuts act on the selected entry, and only work while the clipboard window is open and focused.

Options

Privacy

Every activity below has its own switch under Settings, Live Activities, so you can keep the four you care about and turn the rest off.

System

• Volume, brightness and keyboard brightness replace the macOS pop-ups. Each can be switched independently, and an optional soft tick plays on key presses.
• Battery and charging, with low-battery alerts and one-tap Low Power Mode.
• AirPods and headphones connecting, with their battery level.
• Caps Lock on and off, and Focus mode changes.
• External drives connecting, with a safe eject button.
• Network: joining a network, hotspot battery, live VPN status with a session timer, and an optional offline warning.
• Recording and privacy indicators: screen recording controls with a video preview, and the microphone and screen indicators.
• Droppy updates when a new version is available.

Media

The media widget shows artwork, title, artist and a scrubber, with the full player and your Playing Next queue one swipe away. It also carries the native AirPlay and audio output picker.

• Live audio visualizer bounces the bars to what is actually playing. macOS asks once for System Audio Recording; Droppy reads levels in the moment and never records.
• Live album artwork plays Apple Music and Spotify animated covers when the song has one, and pauses with playback to stay light on CPU.
• Notch track title briefly shows track info under the physical notch on song change.
• Track swipe changes songs with a swipe, in the direction you prefer.
• Hide Incognito media keeps anything playing in a private browsing window out of the notch.
• Default music app decides which player the controls target when more than one could answer.

From Droplets

Droplets report here too, once switched on: Pomodoro's focus and break timers, High Alert, Meetings with a call timer and live audio, Notifications, Agents showing Claude, Codex and Cursor status, Termi-Notch, the Calendar event progress ring, and the file tray's own drop confirmation.

More than one at a time

Droppy gives the primary activity the main seat and pills the others beside it, so a timer keeps ticking while a track changes and a download finishes.

Cards

The large cards sit above the login area. When more than one is on, the timer card sits at the bottom, High Alert stacks above it, and Now Playing lifts above both.

• Now Playing with artwork and transport controls, and timed lyrics when the Lyrics Droplet is on.
• Timer, from the Pomodoro Droplet, and High Alert, from its own. Each has an optional darker background so the countdown stays readable on a bright wallpaper.
• Artwork card and a fullscreen animated artwork mode for Apple Music and Spotify animated covers.

Status widgets row

A centered row of chips under the clock. Four are built in: your Mac's battery, your headphone or AirPods battery, sunrise and sunset, and air quality. Pick a widget style, regular, liquid or frosted, and a text color if the automatic white does not suit your wallpaper.

Droplets on the lock screen

Twelve Droplets add a chip of their own, and each has its own switch here. A chip only appears while its Droplet has something to say, so a lock screen with all twelve on is still empty when nothing is running.

Sliders and sounds

Drop files onto the shelf and pick the cloud Quick Action, or use the Droppy Cloud Droplet. Droppy uploads them and copies a getdroppy.app/cloud/<slug> link to your clipboard. Every active share is listed in the menu bar with its own delete button.

Limits

Not end to end encrypted

Full detail, including exactly what is stored per share, is on the Droppy Cloud page.

Open Settings, Store to browse the catalogue, read what each one does, and install it. Installing is instant for most: nothing is downloaded and nothing is compiled. A handful need a one-time runtime or a third-party app, and each says so on its own page.

A Droplet that is off costs nothing. Turn one off and its widget leaves the shelf, its shortcuts stop answering, and any permission it asked for stops being used. Nothing you made with it is deleted.

Where they show up

Every Droplet page lists its surfaces as a row of chips. This is what each one means.

A Droplet with options also gets its own page in Settings once installed, reachable from its card in the Store and from Settings search.

All 37 Droplets

Each one has a page of its own: what it does, what it needs, and what it puts on your screen.

Productivity

Alfred Workflow Keyboard-first file management Element Capture Capture any screen element instantly Finder Services Right-click → Add to Droppy Window Snap Pointer + keyboard window management Termi-Notch Quick access terminal in your notch Droppy Cloud Temporary file sharing with 3-day cleanup Notifications Show notifications in your notch High Alert Keep your Mac awake Calendar Tasks & Notes Camera Live notch camera preview Pomodoro Slider-based focus timer in your notch LiquidMouse Liquid smooth scrolling + reverse option Meetings Mute, camera, and share from the notch Notes Quick notes that live in your notch Thunderstorm Basically Droppy's brain Thaw Hide and manage menu bar items, by Toni Förster Mechey Mechanical keyboard sound effects LocalSend AirDrop for every device, no cloud Obsidian Your vault, live on the shelf Weather Live weather on your shelf and lock screen System Stats Live Mac stats on your shelf OCR Extract text from your screen, images, and PDFs Ring Hold a shortcut, pick from a ring of actions Emoji Picker Your emoji, one shortcut away Mac Duo Your MacBook opens and closes like an iPhone Duo Teleprompter Read your script right under the camera

Media

Spotify Integration Control playback from your notch Video Target Size Compress videos to exact file sizes Apple Music Integration Native controls for Apple Music Lyrics Timed lyrics beside your media widget PDF Compress Deep PDF compression with Ghostscript Converter Convert files on your Mac, never in the cloud Audio Control Per-app volume sliders Kaset YouTube Music YouTube Music through Kaset

AI

AI Background Removal BiRefNet, external runtime Voice Transcribe On-device speech-to-text transcription Agents Live Claude, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity & OpenCode progress in the notch

The app is free on TestFlight while it is in beta. Syncing needs an active Droppy license on the Mac you pair with. It is iPhone only, on iOS 26 or later: there is no iPad build and no Apple Watch app.

Pairing, about a minute

1. Open Droppy on your Mac

   It lives in the menu bar and in the notch.

2. Go to Settings, General, Droppy Sync

   Create a Sync Library if you have not already.

3. Choose Pair iPhone

   Your Mac shows a QR code, with the link written out under it.

4. Scan it, or paste it

   Confirm on the phone. Camera is the only permission it asks for, and nothing joins your library without you approving it there.

How the encryption works

What syncs

Six stores, both directions. Change something on either end and the other catches up on the next pass.

Managing the library

• Revoke a device from either end. It immediately loses access to the Sync Library. Content it already downloaded stays on it, and pairing it again needs a new code from the Mac.
• Reset Sync Library deletes the library from the server and starts a fresh one on this Mac. Nothing on the Mac is deleted and other devices keep what they downloaded, but every device has to be paired again.
• If your license lapses, the pairing survives and Droppy says so, instead of quietly unpairing the phone.

Mac controls

At a glance, read-only

Notes and tasks

On this iPhone, no Mac needed

More, including the beta FAQ, on the Droppy for iPhone page.

Record a shortcut by clicking its Record shortcut pill and pressing the keys. Droppy tells you immediately if the combination is already taken, by another Droppy shortcut or by a system one, so two things never fire on one press. Load defaults fills the page with a sensible set in one click.

What you can bind

Two things worth knowing

Whatever channel you are on, an update arrives as a Live Activity in the notch and as a card in Settings with that release's notes. Your settings, clipboard history, shelf contents and Droplet configuration all carry across, including when you move between channels.

The full history is on the changelog.

• On-device by default. OCR, AI Background Removal, Voice Transcribe, Converter, PDF Compress and Video Target Size all run locally. Nothing is uploaded for processing.
• Droppy Sync is end to end encrypted. Records are sealed on the device with a key your Mac made and keeps in its Keychain. That key never reaches a server.
• Droppy Cloud is not end to end encrypted. It is a deliberate, separate path for files you choose to share. See Droppy Cloud.
• Concealed copies are respected. Anything an app marks as concealed, such as a password manager's copy, stays out of clipboard history.
• The Agents Droplet reads only your own local agent session logs. It shows tool calls and files, never paths or prompts on the phone.

The full text is in the privacy policy.

Remove backgrounds with on-device AI directly from Droppy. After the one-time runtime setup, images are processed locally on your Mac for fast, private cutouts that keep fine detail.

What it does

• Runs entirely on-device
• Private, images never leave your Mac
• BiRefNet SOTA segmentation quality
• One-time runtime + model install

How to use it

1. Install the runtime and the BiRefNet model once from its page in Settings, Store. After that it never touches the network again.
2. Drop an image on the Shelf or the Basket and pick background removal from its actions. Thunderstorm can run it on a found image too.
3. The result comes back as a cutout with real transparency, so it drops straight into Keynote, Figma or a message without a white box behind it.

Where it shows up

• File action
• Droppy for iPhone

Workflows

Tips

• It processes one image at a time. A second image queued while the first is running is refused rather than silently dropped.
• Very large images can time out. Scale the source down first and the cutout quality barely changes, because the model works at its own resolution anyway.
• The model is a few hundred megabytes. Removing the Droplet from its page deletes the runtime and the model with it.

Getting it

Use the Droppy Alfred workflow to push files into Shelf or Basket from your keyboard. It keeps quick file actions in Alfred so you can send items without switching context.

What it does

• Customizable keyboard shortcuts
• Instant file transfer
• Works with files and folders
• Opens workflow in Alfred

How to use it

1. Install the workflow from this Droplet's page. Droppy hands the file to Alfred, which imports it.
2. Select files in Finder, press ⌘Space, then choose File Actions.
3. Pick Add to Shelf or Add to Basket. The files land on the notch shelf or in the floating basket without a single drag.

Where it shows up

• File action

Workflows

Tips

• Alfred lets you bind the File Action to its own hotkey, which turns this into one key press for a Finder selection.
• It needs Alfred 4 or newer with the Powerpack, since File Actions are a Powerpack feature.

Getting it

Capture UI elements, areas, windows, or full screens and edit them immediately. The flow is built for fast screenshot work with annotations and blur tools in one pass.

What it does

• Configurable keyboard shortcuts
• Every mode on a button in the Ring droplet
• Pause the screen, then capture
• Annotate with arrows, shapes & text
• Blur sensitive content
• Save to a folder or Droppy Cloud

How to use it

1. Record a shortcut for each mode you want on the Shortcuts page, or turn on All-in-one and pick the mode from a floating toolbar with its own timer and exact-size fields.
2. Use Pause screen when the thing you want to capture disappears the moment you move the mouse: a menu, a hover state, a tooltip.
3. The capture lands in the corner with Copy and Save. Open the editor to annotate with arrows, shapes and text, blur anything sensitive, and place the shot on a background with a radius and a shadow.
4. Save to a folder you choose, straight to Droppy Cloud, or onto the Shelf or the Basket.

Where it shows up

• Global shortcut
• Ring action
• File action

Workflows

Tips

• Every capture mode is available as a Ring button, so one held shortcut can offer element, area, window and full screen without four bindings.
• Editor keys only answer while the editor is open, so they can be short.
• Pinned screenshots have their own show and hide shortcut, which is the fastest way to clear the screen for a moment and bring them back.
• Auto-compress keeps file sizes down for chat apps without you thinking about it.

Getting it

Add Droppy actions to Finder right-click menus so files can be sent to Shelf, Basket, and supported flows instantly from the location where you already manage files.

What it does

• Right-click context menu
• Instant integration
• No extra apps required
• Enable in Keyboard Shortcuts > Services > Files and Folders

How to use it

1. Switch it on once in System Settings, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Services, Files and Folders. This Droplet's page opens that pane for you.
2. Right-click any file or folder selection in Finder and choose Quick Actions or Services, then the Droppy action.

Where it shows up

• Finder
• File action

Workflows

Tips

• macOS lets you give a Service its own keyboard shortcut in the same pane, which turns this into a key press on a Finder selection.
• It works on folders, not just files.

Getting it

Control Spotify playback from the notch with transport controls and track context while you work. It reduces app switching when you just need quick media actions.

What it does

• Now playing info in notch
• Playback controls
• Album art display
• Secure OAuth connection

How to use it

1. Connect your account once. Droppy opens Spotify in your browser so you can approve it, and nothing else is stored.
2. Playback, artwork and track context then appear in the notch, in the media widget and on the lock screen.
3. Pick which control sits on the left and the right of the widget, so the two buttons you actually use are the two you get.

Where it shows up

• Media widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Droppy for iPhone

Workflows

Tips

• You can supply your own Spotify Client ID if you would rather the connection went through an app you own.
• The Lyrics Droplet adds timed lyrics beside the same widget.
• The same left and right button choice drives the lock screen media HUD.

Getting it

Transcribe speech to text on-device with Whisper or Parakeet inside Droppy. Dictation stays local while giving you fast transcript output for notes, messages, and prompts.

What it does

• One-tap Quick Record from menu bar
• 100% on-device AI processing
• 20 languages supported
• Audio never leaves your Mac

How to use it

1. Install the runtime once, then a model: Whisper for breadth, Parakeet for speed. Both run on the Neural Engine and both work offline.
2. Start a recording from the menu bar's Quick Record, a global shortcut, or a Ring button. Background recording takes no window at all.
3. Turn on Auto-copy result and the transcript is on your clipboard the moment it finishes. With Accessibility granted it can type straight into the field you were in.
4. Add names, product names and jargon under custom vocabulary. It biases the recognizer, which is the difference between a transcript you edit and one you paste.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Ring action
• Menu bar
• Droppy for iPhone

The lock screen chip shows recording duration, or transcription progress once you stop.

Workflows

Tips

• Auto-detect is the right language setting for mixed or unknown speech; pick a fixed language only when you know every recording is in it.
• Audio is deleted the moment the transcript exists. Nothing is kept and nothing is uploaded.
• The lock screen chip shows the recording duration while you talk, and the transcription progress once you stop.

Getting it

Manage window layouts with pointer-first snap behavior and optional keyboard shortcuts. It gives you fast placement across single or multi-display setups without extra utility windows.

What it does

• Configurable keyboard shortcuts
• Action-key drag + optional no-key title-bar snap
• Halves, quarters, thirds, and padding
• Smooth previews and snap animations
• Maximize and restore
• Multi-monitor support

How to use it

1. Pick your modifier keys: one to hold while dragging anywhere to move a window, another to hold while dragging to resize it. No title bar needed.
2. Turn on no-key title-bar snap if you would rather drag a window to an edge the usual way.
3. Record shortcuts for the layouts you use: halves, thirds, two-thirds, corners, maximize, center, and moving a window to another display.
4. Set the padding and the settle speed so a snapped layout looks deliberate rather than flush against the bezel.

Where it shows up

• Global shortcut
• Ring action

Workflows

Tips

• Snap actions can sit on the Ring, which is easier to remember than eight modifier combinations.
• Choose how resize picks its edge: the closest corner is the behaviour most people expect from a drag started in the middle of a window.
• It can bring the target window to the front and activate its app as part of the snap, which keeps focus where you are looking.

Getting it

Compress videos to target-friendly sizes so uploads meet strict limits with fewer retries. FFmpeg integration keeps export quality balanced while producing consistent output sizes.

What it does

• Exact file size targeting
• Two-pass encoding for accuracy
• One-time FFmpeg install
• Fast H.264/AAC processing

How to use it

1. Install FFmpeg once from this Droplet's page. It uses Homebrew and the page walks you through it if Homebrew is missing.
2. Drop a video and give it the size you need. Two-pass H.264 and AAC encoding lands on the target instead of near it.

Where it shows up

• File action

Workflows

Tips

• Two passes take longer than one, and that is the point: a single pass hits the size by luck.
• Its FFmpeg install is also what gives the Converter Droplet MP3 output.

Getting it

Run quick shell commands from the notch with session tabs, working-directory awareness, and Tab completion for commands and paths. When you need a full terminal app, you can hand the current workflow off to Terminal, iTerm, Warp, Ghostty, WezTerm, kitty, or Alacritty.

What it does

• Full terminal emulation
• Customizable keyboard shortcut
• Quick command & expanded modes
• Open in your terminal app anytime

How to use it

1. Record a shortcut. It opens in quick-command mode: type, run, read the result in a compact HUD.
2. Expand it for a full terminal with session tabs, working-directory awareness and Tab completion for both commands and paths.
3. When a job outgrows the notch, hand the session off to Terminal, iTerm, Warp, Ghostty, WezTerm, kitty or Alacritty. Pick which one in its settings.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Ring action

The lock screen chip shows how many Terminal sessions are still running.

Workflows

Tips

• Set the command timeout so a hanging command stops instead of holding the notch forever.
• The lock screen chip shows how many sessions are still running, which is the quickest way to know a build survived the lock.

Getting it

Upload files to Droppy Cloud and get a share page link copied immediately. Shares expire after 3 days and can be deleted early to free space right away.

What it does

• Instant file upload
• Automatic link copying
• 3-day auto cleanup
• Menu Bar access

How to use it

1. Drop files on the Shelf and pick the cloud tile, use the Basket's share action, or upload from the menu bar. The link is copied for you.
2. Turn on Require upload confirmation if you would rather be asked before anything leaves the Mac.
3. Every live share is listed in Droppy's menu bar with its own delete button, so ending a share early is one click.

Where it shows up

• Lock screen
• Ring action
• Quick Action tile
• Menu bar
• File action
• Droppy for iPhone

The lock screen chip shows how many links are live and how much of your allowance they use.

Workflows

Tips

• Shares expire after 3 days on their own. Deleting one early frees your allowance immediately.
• The lock screen chip shows how many links are live and how much of the 1 GB per-installation allowance they use.
• The cloud Quick Action tile can point at Dropbox or Google Drive instead, if that is where your files belong.
• Droppy Cloud is not end to end encrypted, unlike Droppy Sync. Encrypt anything confidential yourself first.

Getting it

Use native Apple Music controls in Droppy so playback stays accessible while you work. You can handle transport actions without bouncing between windows.

What it does

• Now playing info in notch
• Playback controls
• Shuffle & repeat controls
• Love songs instantly

How to use it

1. Nothing to connect. It talks to the Music app on your Mac directly.
2. Transport, shuffle and repeat, and Love, all from the notch. Pick which control sits on the left and the right of the widget.
3. Turn on the audio quality badge to see Lossless or Dolby Atmos under the artist while it plays.

Where it shows up

• Media widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Droppy for iPhone

Workflows

Tips

• Love is a single button here, which is the one Music action that is genuinely annoying to reach any other way.
• The Lyrics Droplet adds timed lyrics to the same widget, and animated covers play in the media widget and on the lock screen.

Getting it

Bring notifications into the notch HUD with app-aware display options. It helps you triage incoming updates quickly while keeping interruptions compact and controlled.

What it does

• Display notifications in the notch
• Show app icon and preview text
• Click to open, swipe to dismiss
• Per-app notification filtering

How to use it

1. Turn it on and choose which apps it captures. Everything else keeps using the macOS banner.
2. Optionally let Droppy hide the native banner, so a notification appears in one place rather than two.
3. Set an auto-dismiss delay, and pick which Focus modes hold banners back.
4. Reply to iMessage, WhatsApp and Telegram straight from the notch. Messages replies need Messages access; the notification store needs Full Disk Access.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut

The lock screen chip shows the notification count and the latest message.

Workflows

Tips

• Per-app filtering is the setting that makes this bearable: capture the two apps you care about, not all of them.
• Apple Mail live alerts are a separate switch, because Mail's own notification behaviour is unusual.
• The lock screen chip shows the count and the latest message.

Getting it

Keep your Mac awake with simple timed or indefinite modes from Droppy controls. It is useful for long exports, presentations, or sessions where sleep would interrupt progress.

What it does

• Prevent display and system sleep
• Timer presets: hours or minutes
• Indefinite mode until disabled
• Lightweight, no battery drain

How to use it

1. Start it from the shelf widget, the menu bar or a Ring button, for a set number of minutes or hours, or indefinitely.
2. Pick the mode: Display keeps the screen on, System Only lets the screen dim while the Mac keeps working, and Lid Closed keeps it working after the lid shuts.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Ring action
• Menu bar
• Droppy for iPhone

The lock screen shows a countdown card while it is active, and the notch keeps a timer pill.

Workflows

Tips

• The Ring can carry a button per duration, so one held shortcut offers 20 minutes, 2 hours and indefinite side by side.
• The lock screen shows the countdown on its own card, so you can see it is still holding without unlocking.
• It is on the iPhone too, which is the easy way to release it from the sofa.

Getting it

Capture reminders with natural-language input and view upcoming tasks in Droppy. It streamlines quick planning and follow-up actions directly from your workspace.

What it does

• Natural-language task capture
• List support with list mentions
• Date mentions like tomorrow and next Friday
• Multilingual task input
• Priority levels and fast checklist interactions

How to use it

1. It reads Apple Reminders and Calendar, and writes back to Reminders. Choose which lists and which calendars appear.
2. Add a task by typing it: Email Sam tomorrow, Pay invoice next Friday @Work. Date words and @list mentions are parsed as you type, in several languages.
3. Set a default list so a task with no @list still lands somewhere sensible.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Ring action
• Droppy for iPhone

On the lock screen it shows the next event or task. In the notch it runs an event progress ring as a meeting approaches.

Workflows

Tips

• It syncs in real time: a reminder ticked off on your phone disappears here without a refresh.
• Set which day the week starts on, which the month grid and the week numbers both follow.
• It is one Droplet covering both events and reminders, not two.

Getting it

Show a floating camera control and open a full camera preview from the shelf. It is designed for quick camera checks while staying in your active workflow.

What it does

• Floating camera button below the shelf
• Full preview mode with aligned notch padding
• Low-latency startup with smooth transitions

How to use it

1. Turn it on to get a floating camera button below the shelf. The camera itself stays off until you start it.
2. Open the full preview for a larger view with padding aligned to the notch.
3. Choose which connected camera to use, and whether the preview is mirrored.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Global shortcut

Workflows

Tips

• Mirror on is what you are used to seeing; mirror off is what the Mac's native camera view shows and what other people actually see.
• Auto picks the best available camera, including a Continuity Camera iPhone.

Getting it

Run focused work timers from the notch with quick start/stop controls and a clear countdown. It keeps session tracking visible without opening a separate timer app.

What it does

• Pick any timer length with one slider
• Start or stop sessions instantly from the shelf
• Compact HUD with live session progress
• Optional focus title per session

How to use it

1. Pick any length with one slider and start it from the shelf. Opening the widget starts it immediately with your last settings; right-click the widget to choose manually instead.
2. Give the session a focus title if it helps you remember what you sat down to do.
3. Turn on ambient sound for the length of the timer: brown noise, pink noise, fireplace or airplane.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Ring action
• Droppy for iPhone

The lock screen shows the countdown while a session runs, on its own card above the login area.

Workflows

Tips

• The Ring can carry pause and resume, next section, and a plain stopwatch, which is the fastest way to run one without opening the widget.
• Keep the timer visible in the notch if you would rather see it than be surprised by it.
• Live Activities on the iPhone track the same timer, and you can scrub it from there.

Getting it

Improve external mouse scrolling with smoothing, optional reverse direction, and speed tuning. The droplet targets wheel-mouse comfort while leaving trackpad behavior untouched.

What it does

• Smooths coarse external mouse wheel steps
• Liquid mode for trackpad-like inertial flow
• Adjust scroll speed from slower to faster
• Optional reverse scroll direction
• Trackpad gestures stay unchanged
• Enable/disable instantly from the droplet panel

How to use it

1. Turn it on and set the scroll speed. Trackpads are left completely alone.
2. Pick an easing curve for how a wheel step accelerates and settles. The ease-in and ease-out families differ in how much of the movement lands at the start.
3. Reverse the direction for the mouse only, if you keep natural scrolling on for the trackpad.
4. Exclude any app that already does its own smoothing.

Where it shows up

It has no widget, no chip and no shortcut. It changes how your Mac already behaves, everywhere, and you turn it on or off from its own panel under Settings, Store.

Workflows

Tips

• Each wheel axis is configured separately, so horizontal scroll can stay plain while vertical is smoothed.
• If a specific app fights it, add it to the exclusion list rather than turning the whole Droplet off.

Getting it

Open a synced lyrics panel directly beside the media widget without changing your pinned layout. It keeps the current song centered and animates timed lines in a calmer, more immersive reading surface.

What it does

• Shows an inline lyrics badge right beside supported track titles
• Temporarily replaces the companion widget with timed lyrics
• Smooth line-by-line animation that follows playback progress
• Uses your artwork colors for a richer lyrics surface

How to use it

1. Turn it on. A small L badge appears beside the track title whenever timed lyrics exist for what is playing.
2. Tap the badge to replace the companion widget with the lyrics panel, which follows playback line by line and takes its colours from the artwork.
3. Turn on auto-expand if you would rather it open on its own whenever lyrics are found.

Where it shows up

• Media widget
• Lock screen
• Droppy for iPhone

On the lock screen the timed lines run under the Now Playing card.

Workflows

Tips

• It works with the media widget, so it covers whatever your Mac is playing rather than one specific app.
• The lock screen runs the same timed lines under the Now Playing card.

Getting it

Control your meetings from the notch without switching apps. Mute, toggle camera, and manage screen sharing from a persistent bar that stays out of your way.

What it does

• Mute / unmute with one tap
• Toggle camera on and off
• Start or stop screen sharing
• End the call instantly
• Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, WhatsApp, and Telegram Web
• Notch hidden from viewers during screen share
• Reorder or hide buttons from Settings

How to use it

1. Turn it on and it watches for Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, WhatsApp and Telegram Web. A compact call HUD takes the notch for the length of the call.
2. Mute, camera, screen share and end call are all one click. Reorder or hide the buttons you do not use.
3. Record shortcuts per meeting app so mute works from whatever window you are actually in.

Where it shows up

• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Ring action
• Droppy for iPhone

The lock screen shows the meeting timer and mute state, and the notch runs a compact call HUD for the length of the call.

Workflows

Tips

• If the meeting app already owns the same combination system-wide, keep one of them, or each press fires the action twice.
• Droppy hides its own notch from viewers while you share your screen.
• Allow media while muted pauses what you were listening to and resumes it when the meeting ends.
• You can mute the Mac's mic or kill its camera from your iPhone.

Getting it

Jot down a thought the second it crosses your mind, straight from the shelf. Notes auto-save as you type with live markdown, sort by last edit, and reopen exactly where you left off, standalone or paired with another widget.

What it does

• Capture a note in one click, straight from the shelf
• Live markdown editing with smart lists, headings, and tables
• Notes auto-save as you type and sort by last edit
• Works standalone or alongside other widgets in your Custom Shelf
• Reopen any note exactly where you left off

How to use it

1. Open a note in one click from the shelf, or bind a shortcut that jumps straight into it. The cursor lands in the text, so you can just type.
2. It is live markdown: lists, headings and tables format as you write. A formatting toolbar is optional.
3. Notes auto-save, sort by last edit, and reopen exactly where you left off. Pin the one you keep coming back to.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Ring action
• Droppy for iPhone

The lock screen chip shows the note count and the latest note's title.

Workflows

Tips

• The Ring has a New note action, which is the shortest path from a thought to a note.
• Turn on Grow canvas with longer notes so a long note gets more room instead of a smaller scroll area.
• The lock screen chip shows the note count and the latest title.

Getting it

Launch a fast Spotlight-style panel from anywhere to search your apps, settings, and files. Where Spotlight only finds things, Thunderstorm lets you act on them: rename, duplicate, or reveal files in Finder, quit or uninstall apps, eject disks, and run system commands like Restart or Sleep, all without leaving the panel.

What it does

• Universal search across apps, settings, and files
• Rename, duplicate, and reveal files in Finder
• Quit or uninstall apps, eject disks, sleep or restart
• Configurable global shortcut that can replace Spotlight

How to use it

1. Record a global shortcut, or take Spotlight's. To do that, disable Apple's binding first under System Settings, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Spotlight.
2. Type to search apps, settings, files, clipboard entries, basket items and calendar events at once.
3. Then act on what you found without leaving the panel: rename, duplicate or reveal a file in Finder, quit or uninstall an app, eject a disk, sleep or restart.

Where it shows up

• Global shortcut
• Ring action

Workflows

Tips

• App aliases let you call an app what you actually call it, rather than what its developer named it.
• It can run Element Capture modes and manage Droplets, which makes it a reasonable single shortcut to remember if you only want one.

Getting it

Compress PDFs to smaller file sizes using Ghostscript integration directly from Droppy. It keeps output quality balanced while producing consistent, reduced file sizes for sharing and uploading.

What it does

• Preserves text & vector content
• Deep image recompression
• Font subsetting & deduplication
• One-time Ghostscript install

How to use it

1. Install Ghostscript once from this Droplet's page. It uses Homebrew, and the page tells you how to get Homebrew if you do not have it.
2. Drop a PDF and it recompresses the images, subsets and deduplicates the fonts, and leaves the text and vectors alone.

Where it shows up

• File action

Workflows

Tips

• This is a real recompression, not a re-print: text stays text, so the output is still a document rather than a stack of pictures.
• Ghostscript can be uninstalled from the same page when you no longer want it on the machine.

Getting it

See live AI coding progress in your notch, built for Claude Code and Codex CLI. Watch the current tool call, the file being edited, and the lines changed in real time.

What it does

• Live coding agent sessions with per-tool activity
• Codex CLI turn tracking from rollout logs
• Current file, tool call and lines changed
• Small notch pill + expanded shelf card
• Fully local, reads only your own agent session logs

How to use it

1. Turn it on, then start a session in Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Antigravity or OpenCode. It picks the session up on its own.
2. The notch runs a small pill with the current tool call; expand the shelf card for the file being edited and the lines changed.
3. Set the compact HUD priority to decide who wins the notch when both the Agents pill and the media HUD want it.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Droppy for iPhone

The lock screen chip shows the active session's phase and progress, with no paths and no prompts.

Workflows

Tips

• It is entirely local. It reads your own agent session logs on this Mac and sends nothing anywhere.
• The phone deliberately shows no paths and no prompts, only what is running and what phase it is in.

Getting it

Install Thaw directly from Droppy. It's the official build by Toni Förster, pulled live from github.com/thaw-app/Thaw. Hide and manage menu bar items, tint the bar, add hotkeys, and let Droppy keep Thaw up to date automatically.

What it does

• Hide and organise menu bar items
• Menu bar tinting, shadows, and custom shapes
• Search + hotkeys for fast access
• Auto-update straight from GitHub releases

How to use it

1. Install it from this Droplet's page. Droppy downloads the official signed build from github.com/thaw-app/Thaw and keeps it updated.
2. Hide and reorder menu bar items, tint the bar, give items hotkeys, and choose whether the floating bar follows the layout, the mouse or the menu bar icon.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Global shortcut

Workflows

Tips

• This is a third-party app by Toni Förster, not a Droppy feature: Droppy installs and updates it for you, and it stays his app.
• Droppy checks for new Thaw releases and tells you when one is out.

Getting it

Adds rich, low-latency mechanical keyboard sound effects to every keystroke. Browse community soundpacks, set per-output-device volume, and choose pitch variation for a more natural typing feel.

What it does

• Realistic mechanical key sounds for every keystroke
• Low-latency engine that lands sounds in under ~10ms
• Browse and install soundpacks
• Optional mouse-click sounds
• Auto-enable when headphones connect, mute while music plays

How to use it

1. Install a soundpack from its page and pick it. Nothing plays until a pack is chosen.
2. Grant Accessibility and Input Monitoring so it can hear keys typed in other apps. Previews still play without them.
3. Set the volume per output device, so headphones and speakers are not the same loudness.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Global shortcut

Workflows

Tips

• Auto-mute on music gets out of the way when Music, Spotify or VLC starts playing.
• Turn off modifier sounds so Shift, Control, Option, Command and Fn stay silent and only real characters click.
• Ignore rapid key events drops events less than 10 ms apart, which fixes the double-click sound on a chattering key.
• Mouse clicks can play too, for the left, right and middle buttons.

Getting it

Drop a video, audio file, or PDF and choose its new format. Converter turns video into audio and PDF pages into images on your Mac, with nothing uploaded or tied to an account.

What it does

• Fully offline, nothing uploaded
• Video to audio: M4A, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC
• PDF to image: JPEG, PNG, WebP
• Audio to audio between every format
• MP3 output via the FFmpeg droplet

How to use it

1. Drop a video, an audio file or a PDF, then pick the output format. Everything happens on the Mac.
2. Video becomes M4A, WAV, FLAC, AIFF or ALAC. Audio converts between all of those. Each PDF page becomes its own JPEG, PNG or WebP.
3. Choose where converted files are saved, and whether Finder opens when they land.

Where it shows up

• Quick Action tile
• File action
• Droppy for iPhone

Workflows

Tips

• MP3 output needs FFmpeg, which the Video Target Size Droplet installs. Every other format works with nothing extra.
• It can be one of your Quick Action tiles, so a drop straight onto Convert asks for the format and gets on with it.
• Nothing is uploaded and nothing is tied to an account, which matters more for documents than for video.

Getting it

Turns your notch into an AirDrop replacement that talks to every platform. Droppy speaks the open LocalSend protocol, so files fly between this Mac and any phone, tablet, or PC running the free LocalSend app, entirely over your local network with no cloud in between. Send from share menus and quick action tiles; incoming transfers ask first, support a PIN, and land in your folder and on the shelf.

What it does

• Works with the free LocalSend app on iOS, Android, Windows, and Linux
• Send from the shelf, basket, and quick actions
• Received files land in your folder and on the shelf
• Encrypted transfers with optional PIN

How to use it

1. Install the free LocalSend app on the other device. It exists for iOS, Android, Windows and Linux, and Droppy speaks the same open protocol.
2. Send from the Shelf, the Basket or a Quick Action tile. Both devices need to be on the same network.
3. Incoming transfers ask before they land. Set a PIN if you want a second check, and choose where received files are saved.

Where it shows up

• Quick Action tile
• File action

Workflows

Tips

• Discovery can be turned off so this Mac does not advertise itself. Sending still works while hidden.
• Encrypted transfers use a self-signed certificate created once on this Mac. Plain HTTP is only there for old clients that cannot do TLS.
• It needs Local Network access in System Settings, Privacy and Security.

Getting it

Open your Obsidian vault right on the shelf. Droppy reads and writes the same Markdown files Obsidian uses, so edits in either app stay in sync without a separate Sync API or plugin.

What it does

• Point Droppy at any Obsidian vault on this Mac
• Live two-way sync with the same .md files Obsidian reads
• Sync only a Droppy folder, or the entire vault
• Markdown editing with the same shelf editor as Notes
• Works standalone or alongside other Custom Shelf widgets

How to use it

1. Point Droppy at your vault: the folder that contains the hidden .obsidian directory.
2. Choose whether to sync only a Droppy folder inside the vault, which Droppy creates, or every Markdown note in it.
3. Edit with the same shelf editor Notes uses. Droppy reads and writes the same .md files Obsidian reads, so both apps stay in step with no plugin and no Sync subscription.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Droppy for iPhone

The lock screen chip shows the vault's note count and the latest note's title.

Workflows

Tips

• Hidden folders like .obsidian are always excluded, so your config and plugins are never touched.
• If macOS revokes the folder permission after a move or an update, choose the vault again to restore access.
• Start with the Droppy folder rather than the whole vault if the vault is large.

Getting it

Keep the current conditions, temperature, and hourly outlook one glance away on your shelf and lock screen. Pick a fixed city or use automatic location from your Mac, choose a dynamic, dark, or Liquid Glass card, and tune how often the forecast refreshes.

What it does

• Live conditions with an hourly outlook
• Fixed custom city or automatic location
• Dynamic, dark, or Liquid Glass card styles
• Optional weather chip on the lock screen

How to use it

1. Choose automatic location from your Mac, or search for a fixed city.
2. Pick Celsius, Fahrenheit or the location's own default, and how often the forecast refreshes.
3. Choose the card style: dynamic, dark, or Liquid Glass.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Droppy for iPhone

The lock screen chip shows the temperature and the current condition. It is gated on this Droplet, so turning the Droplet off takes the chip down even with the lock screen toggle still on.

Workflows

Tips

• If Location Services is unavailable, an optional network fallback estimates an approximate place from your IP address.
• The lock screen chip is this Droplet's surface, so turning the Droplet off takes the chip down even with the lock screen toggle still on.
• The phone shows your Mac's forecast in the phone's own units.

Getting it

Watch your Mac's vitals live in the notch: two stat cards with big percentages and rolling history graphs. Choose any two of CPU, RAM, GPU, and disk, and tune how often they sample. Sampling only runs while the widget is on screen, so it never drains your battery in the background.

What it does

• Live CPU, RAM, GPU, disk, battery, and network
• Rolling history graph for every stat
• Pick two cards, or show all six with Superstats
• Samples only while the widget is open

How to use it

1. Pick the two stats you want as cards from CPU, RAM, GPU, disk, battery and network. Picking the one already on the other side swaps the two.
2. Turn on Superstats to show all six at once instead of two.
3. Set how often the cards sample. Sampling stops entirely when the shelf closes.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Global shortcut
• Droppy for iPhone

Workflows

Tips

• Because it only samples while the widget is on screen, leaving it configured costs nothing when the shelf is shut.
• Every stat carries a rolling history graph, not just a number, which is what makes a spike distinguishable from a load.
• The phone shows a snapshot per sync rather than a live graph, by design.

Getting it

Select any screen area or choose an image or PDF to extract its text privately on your Mac. Recent successful results stay available in the OCR shelf widget, while macOS 26 can also preserve document lists and tables as Markdown.

What it does

• Select any screen area with the system capture tool
• Read images and PDFs entirely on device
• Preserve lists and tables as Markdown on macOS 26
• Reopen recent extractions from the shelf

How to use it

1. Record a shortcut, then select any area of the screen. Recognition runs on device.
2. Or choose an image or a PDF and pull the text out of the file instead.
3. Set the completion action: show the result window, or copy the text immediately and skip the window entirely.
4. Leave the language on Automatic unless you know every capture is in one language.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Global shortcut
• Ring action
• File action
• Droppy for iPhone

Workflows

Tips

• Recent extractions stay in the OCR shelf widget, and you choose how many.
• OCR text is indexed alongside its image in clipboard history, so searching a word from a screenshot finds the screenshot.
• The Ring carries both area capture and file recognition as separate buttons.

Getting it

Gives every app on your Mac its own volume slider in the notch. Lower the music while a video stays loud, silence system sounds without touching your music app, and each app remembers its level. Built on macOS audio taps, so nothing leaves your machine.

What it does

• A loudness slider for every app playing audio
• Remembers each app's volume between sessions
• Smooth, zipper-free gain ramps
• Runs entirely on your Mac with macOS audio taps

How to use it

1. Turn it on and grant System Audio Recording once. Every app currently playing gets its own slider.
2. Set levels per app. With Remember volumes on, each app comes back at the level you left it.
3. Turn on Show paused apps to keep a row for an app you quieted after it stops playing, and Include system sounds for alerts and notification dings.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget
• Global shortcut
• Droppy for iPhone

Workflows

Tips

• The Natural curve makes the middle of the slider sound half as loud, which is how people expect a volume control to behave. Linear maps position straight to gain.
• If capture fails, play some audio and retry: the mixer needs a stream before it can attach.
• It needs macOS 14.2 or newer, and it runs entirely on your Mac through macOS audio taps.

Getting it

Control Kaset YouTube Music playback from the notch with transport controls, queue inspection, and track context while you work.

What it does

• Now playing info in notch
• Playback controls
• Interactive queue browsing
• Like & dislike tracks

How to use it

1. Install the Kaset app for YouTube Music and launch it once, then allow Automation so Droppy can script playback.
2. Transport, track context, the queue and like or dislike all appear in the notch. Pick which control sits on the left and the right of the widget.

Where it shows up

• Media widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Droppy for iPhone

Workflows

Tips

• Kaset has to be running. Droppy tells you when it is not and offers to launch it.
• Like and dislike are single buttons here, which is what makes the notch worth using for YouTube Music at all.

Getting it

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

Tips

• Almost everything is available: capture modes, OCR area and file, every snap action, voice modes, media transport, meeting controls, the shelf and any widget on it, Thunderstorm, clipboard and copy-and-favourite, the basket switcher, Termi-Notch, High Alert 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

Find emoji from any app with a shortcut or text trigger. Choose larger emoji, your preferred skin tone, where the picker opens, and whether selecting an emoji pastes it or copies it.

What it does

• Open with a shortcut or your own text trigger
• Choose six to ten columns with larger or smaller emoji
• Choose your preferred emoji skin tone
• Add your own search labels by right-clicking an emoji

How to use it

1. Open it with a shortcut, or set a text trigger you type anywhere.
2. Choose six to ten columns. Fewer columns means larger emoji.
3. Set your skin tone once, and choose whether picking an emoji pastes it into the app you were in or just copies it.
4. Choose where it opens: near the pointer, or centred on the display.

Where it shows up

• Global shortcut

Workflows

Tips

• It needs Accessibility so it can take keys while your own app keeps focus. That is what lets it paste straight into the field you were typing in.
• Clearing recent and frequent emoji leaves your custom search labels alone.

Getting it

Close the lid and what the screen shows floats up into the top edge of the display, the bottom pinned, the top narrowing and receding as focus and light fall away. Open it and the picture comes back down, tracking the hinge one to one. Needs a MacBook with a lid angle sensor, and can only be switched on there. Pick the filmed Duo pace or a quicker one, and preview the whole fold from Settings.

What it does

• Folds with the lid on MacBooks with a hinge sensor
• Frame-accurate to the iPhone Duo animation
• Depth blur and light falling away as the picture recedes
• Duo, brisk or quick tempo
• Preview the fold from Settings any time

How to use it

1. Switch it on and close the lid: what the screen shows floats up into the top edge of the display as the lid comes down, the bottom pinned, the top narrowing and receding as focus and light fall away, then the display sleeps as usual.
2. Open the lid and the picture comes back down with it, at the pace of your hand on MacBooks with a hinge sensor.
3. Pick a tempo for the fold that plays on its own: Duo is the pace of Apple's iPhone Duo animation, Brisk and Quick are faster.

Where it shows up

• Lock screen

Workflows

Tips

• The hinge sensor is in the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro and every MacBook Pro since, and in MacBook Airs from the M2 on. Without it, the fold plays when the display wakes after the lid was closed.
• Allow Screen Recording and the fold carries exactly what your screen showed. Without it, the panels show your wallpaper.
• Stop the lid part-way and the fold finishes on its own, so the screen is never left half folded while you work.

Getting it

Puts your script on Droppy's shelf, right under the camera. Pick a steady pace in words per minute or let it follow your voice word by word through the microphone. While a script runs the shelf stays open, even over a full-screen call, and the display stays awake. Every script plays with the same pace and type settings.

What it does

• Steady pace in words per minute, or follows your voice
• Import PDF, Word and text files, or write one in Set up
• Shelf stays open while running, even over a full-screen call
• Keeps the display awake for the session
• Same pace and type settings across every script

How to use it

1. Import a PDF, Word or text file from the widget, or write one in Set up.
2. Pick a steady pace in words per minute, or let it follow your voice word by word through the microphone.
3. Press Start. The shelf stays open while the script runs, even over a full-screen call.

Where it shows up

• Shelf widget

Workflows

Tips

• The display stays awake while a script runs.
• Every script shares the same pace and type settings.
• Voice following needs the Microphone and Speech Recognition permissions. A steady pace needs neither.

Getting it