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, Droppy Account. 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, file tray 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

With Command Center enabled, a click opens Command Center and a right-click opens Droppy's native menu. That menu shows up to five recent Droppy Cloud shares, where selecting a share copies its link, plus Voice Transcribe's Quick Record, Stay Awake, the floating file tray, Settings and the update check. If you turn Command Center off, either click opens the native menu.

You can hide the icon with Show Droppy in the menu bar under Settings, Command Center, Menu bar. To bring it back, right-click the notch or the island to open Settings and turn that switch on again.

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, General, Notch: open Settings, do nothing, 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 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 notch. Whether hovering is enough on your main Mac and on external displays is set under Auto-expand in Settings, General, Expanded notch.
• Drag onto it and it opens to take the drop, wherever the drag started.
• Click runs whatever you set under On notch click in Settings, Media, Gestures.
• Two-finger swipe moves between the notch's pages and Now Playing, and scrubs inside the media controls. Turn gestures on or off under Settings, General, Expanded notch, Gestures.
• Right-click opens Settings, or hides the surface, depending on what you set under Settings, General, Notch.

Pages and navigation

The open notch has three pages: Home, Tray and Widgets. Tray holds the file tray when it appears in the notch. The page buttons sit below the notch and can be hidden with Show navigation, 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.

Home widgets

Any Droplet with a notch widget can be placed on the Home page, alone or beside another one. Widgets available today cover files, weather, media, notifications, Stay Awake, Termi-Notch, Pomodoro, camera, Voice Transcribe, Calendar, Notes, Obsidian, Thaw, Agents, Mechey, clipboard, System Stats, Text Capture 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.

Arrange them under Settings, General, Widgets.

Timing and behaviour

How the notch opens and closes is set under Settings, General, Expanded notch.

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 there too, along with island position.

External displays and fullscreen

Show on external displays, Per-display visibility, Hide physical notch and Hide on fullscreen are under Settings, General, Visibility.

Drag any file, folder, image or selection to the top of the screen, or shake while dragging. The file tray 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.

Where it appears

Settings, File tray opens with one question: where does the file tray appear?

The switch in the page's toolbar turns the file tray off entirely. The notch still opens for widgets and media.

In the notch

How the notch opens, its size and its pages are under Settings, General, Expanded notch. See The notch and the island.

Floating file tray

Instant appear and its delay, Shake sensitivity, Auto-hide and its delay, and Multiple floating trays. Each one is explained on The floating file tray.

Both trays

Shown while the file tray appears in both places.

Moving files out

These two are under Settings, General, File handling.

The floating file tray 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.

It is one of the places the file tray can appear: Floating on its own, or Both, which is the default. Its options are in the Floating file tray section of Settings, File tray.

How to reveal it

• Shake while dragging. Shake sensitivity runs from low to very high.
• Instant appear brings it in the moment a drag starts, with no shake at all. Its delay sets how long a drag runs before it appears.
• A drag shortcut reveals it on a key you hold while dragging. Setting one turns shake and instant appear off, because the key is now the deliberate signal. Record it on the Shortcuts page.

Auto-hide

With Auto-hide on, the floating file tray puts itself away once the pointer leaves it, after a delay you choose. Together with the appear delay, that lets it be eager or patient depending on how you work.

One or multiple floating trays

By default there is only ever one floating file tray. Turn on Multiple floating trays and shaking while one is already open brings another, so you can sort a pile into several destinations in a single pass.

The Tray Switcher shows every open floating file tray at once and moves between them. Give it a shortcut on the Shortcuts page.

Floating file trays carry the same Quick Action tiles as the notch, so a gathered pile can go to AirDrop, a cloud link or Mail without being dropped anywhere first. With Both, Sync between trays keeps the floating file tray and the notch's tray holding the same files.

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.

Transform is the one place Droppy changes files. Drop a batch on it, pick what it should become, and watch the size it will have before you run it. Finished results stack up in the bottom-right corner of your screen, ready to drag out, reveal in Finder or copy.

Where to find it

What it does

Transform only offers what fits the files you gave it, and the order follows what most of them are.

Settings

Settings, Transform holds what Transform remembers.

History holds text, rich text, links, images, colors and file references. Entries can be pinned, favorited and tagged, and text recognized by Text Capture 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

Import history

Open Import history from the clipboard window or Settings, Clipboard, History. Imports add to your existing history and skip duplicate text. Your history limit and retention period still apply; increase them before importing if you want to keep more entries.

• Maccy: click Import to read its local history. Text, links, pins and rich-text formatting are supported.
• Raycast v2: run Export Settings & Data in Raycast with Clipboard History included, choose the resulting .rayconfig file in Droppy, and enter the export passphrase. Text and links are supported. Raycast pins and formatting are not imported.

Image-only, file-only and grouped entries are skipped and counted in the result. The source app's history is never changed. Imported entries participate in Droppy Sync when clipboard sync is enabled.

Raycast export decryption uses CryptoSwift. This product includes software developed by the "Marcin Krzyzanowski" (http://krzyzanowskim.com/).

Privacy

System and Droplet activities have their switches under Settings, Live Activities, so you can keep the ones you care about and turn the rest off. The Now Playing switch is under Settings, Media, Notch.

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. These options are under Settings, Media.

The floating player puts playback controls in the menu bar and on your desktop, with three sizes, motion artwork, Playing Next and lyrics.

• 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.
• Motion 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, Stay Awake, 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.

Watch the floating player in motion, including its size changes, song artwork, queue and lyrics.

Open it and make it float

1. Open Settings, Media, Floating player and turn on Player in the menu bar. Its menu bar item shows the current artwork and waveform while music is playing.
2. Click the menu bar item to open the player. Click outside to close the drop-down, or shrink it past its smallest size with a vertical gesture.
3. Drag the open player away from the menu bar to keep it on your desktop. You can also turn on Float over the desktop in Settings, or right-click the menu bar item and choose Show Floating Player.
4. Drag the floating player wherever it belongs. Choose Above all apps to keep it in reach over your windows, or Pin to desktop to place it behind them.

Three sizes, one continuous motion

• Click the surface outside the artwork and controls to grow to the next size. Clicking the expanded surface closes an open page first, then returns to Player. Clicking the artwork opens the playing app.
• Move two fingers vertically over the player to expand or collapse it. The edge follows your fingers and settles when you release. Near the bottom of the screen it grows upward to keep the controls within reach.
• Use the mouse wheel to step between sizes. You can also choose Mini, Player or Expanded under Settings, Media, Floating player, Size.
• Swipe horizontally to go to the previous or next track. The player follows the same track-swipe direction as the notch player.
• Drag the timeline to seek, or the volume slider to change the output level. Scrolling a queue or output list scrolls that list instead of resizing the player.

Motion artwork

Turn on Motion artwork under Settings, Media, Floating player. Animated covers keep moving as the player changes size, and fill the expanded player when the song has a matching motion cover.

Apple Music uses animated artwork from its catalog. Spotify uses Canvas when available, or matching Apple Music motion artwork when a Canvas is unavailable. Availability depends on the song and the source: other apps, missing artwork and unavailable matches keep the regular still cover. Not every song has motion art.

Reduce Motion keeps the artwork still. The Motion artwork switch also controls the floating player used on the lock screen.

Playing Next and lyrics

Favorite, shuffle and repeat controls depend on the playing app. Apple Music also offers Add to Playlist. The output button lets you choose an available audio device and adjust its volume.

Appearance and availability

The player is available on macOS 14 Sonoma and later, on Macs with or without a notch. Detecting playback from native music apps requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later. Native Liquid Glass and the optional Dynamic Glass finish require macOS 26 or later. Dynamic Glass fades from black at the top into glass below; older systems use a dark surface.

Turn on Show when nothing is playing to keep the player available between songs and sessions. The floating player and the notch's Now Playing controls have separate switches on the Media settings page.

The lock screen uses the same player in its Now Playing card, with controls suited to the locked screen.

Cards

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

• Now Playing is the floating player. See the floating player guide. It rests in the card slot with artwork and transport controls, and timed lyrics when the Lyrics Droplet is on. Resize it into the same large floating card as on the desktop. Tap the album to open a separate artwork screen with a large cover, clock and a lyrics button at the top left. Close that screen to return to the player's previous size. The timer, Stay Awake and widgets row step aside while the player is expanded or the artwork screen is open.
• Timer, from the Pomodoro Droplet, and Stay Awake, from its own. Each has an optional darker background so the countdown stays readable on a bright wallpaper.
• Motion artwork plays Apple Music and Spotify animated covers. In the artwork screen, Fullscreen animated artwork plays the video across the background; turn it off to keep motion inside the large cover. Songs without motion artwork still have the large cover, clock and lyrics. Turn Motion artwork off under Now Playing on this page to keep every cover still.

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 into the file tray 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. The menu shows up to five recent shares; select one to copy its link, or choose Manage Droppy Cloud to open its Settings page.

Limits

Not end to end encrypted

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

MCP is the open standard AI apps use to reach the tools on your Mac. Droppy speaks it, so you can ask Claude to find something you copied or start a Pomodoro, and it happens in Droppy, inside the limits you set.

What AI apps can do

• Search your clipboard history.
• Find files on the file tray, in floating file trays, in Droppy Cloud, and among your recordings and screenshots.
• Read your calendar, to-dos and notes, and add to them.
• Start a timer, a Pomodoro or Stay Awake (High Alert).
• Show an alert in the notch.
• Play, pause and skip what is playing, and set the volume.
• Read and change Droppy's settings.
• Find Droplets in the Store, install them, and switch them on or off.
• Convert and compress files with Transform.
• Take screenshots and recognize the text in them.
• Search and run Thunderstorm commands.

New Droppy features and the Droplets you install show up in the AI app on their own after an update. There is nothing to reconfigure.

Turn it on

Open Settings, Droplet Store, MCP and switch the MCP droplet on. It is off until you do, and turning it off again disconnects every app at once.

Then pick what AI apps may do. Each permission is its own switch, and every one is off until you turn it on. An app only sees the tools that belong to the permissions you allowed.

Connect an app

The quickest way is the Connect button under Settings, Droplet Store, MCP, Connect an app, for Claude, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. Droppy names the file it is about to change and waits for you to confirm. It adds only its own entry, leaves your other servers alone, and keeps the old file next to it as a backup. Restart the app afterwards so it picks Droppy up.

Connect needs Droppy in your Applications folder, because the path it writes has to survive a restart. If Droppy is not running when an app needs it, the app starts it.

To set it up by hand, every app gets the same thing: the small helper inside Droppy, /Applications/Droppy.app/Contents/Helpers/droppy-mcp. If your copy of Droppy lives somewhere else, use its path instead.

Claude

Add this to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json, next to any servers already in it, then quit and reopen Claude.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "droppy": {
      "command": "/Applications/Droppy.app/Contents/Helpers/droppy-mcp",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

Run this once in Terminal. --scope user makes Droppy available in every project.

claude mcp add --scope user droppy -- /Applications/Droppy.app/Contents/Helpers/droppy-mcp

Cursor

Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json, then restart Cursor.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "droppy": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "/Applications/Droppy.app/Contents/Helpers/droppy-mcp",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

Codex

Run this once in Terminal:

codex mcp add droppy -- /Applications/Droppy.app/Contents/Helpers/droppy-mcp

Or add the table yourself to ~/.codex/config.toml. It is what Connect writes, and its two timeouts give Codex time to start Droppy and give you time to answer Droppy's questions, so add them after codex mcp add too.

[mcp_servers.droppy]
command = "/Applications/Droppy.app/Contents/Helpers/droppy-mcp"
args = []
startup_timeout_sec = 30
tool_timeout_sec = 180

Any other app

Most MCP apps take this JSON. Copy config under Settings, Droplet Store, MCP copies it with the path of your own copy of Droppy.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "droppy": {
      "command": "/Applications/Droppy.app/Contents/Helpers/droppy-mcp",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

You stay in control

• You approve each app. The first time an app connects, Droppy asks whether to allow it. Until you do, all it can see is which permissions are on. If the app is a script runner such as Node or Python, Droppy says so: allowing it allows every script it runs.
• Droppy asks before anything sensitive. Screenshots, recordings, reading a file's contents, uploads, installs, script commands and anything that deletes always ask in Droppy first, unless you choose Always allow for that app and that action. No answer within two minutes counts as no.
• You see every call. Settings, Droplet Store, MCP, Activity lists what each app did and how it went. It never records what was sent or what came back.
• You can take it back. Revoke one app under Connected apps, or all of them with Revoke all. Anything you always allowed can be reset under Always allowed.

One thing to keep in mind: an AI app does what its model decides, and a model can be steered by a web page or a file it reads. Turn on only the permissions you use, and read Droppy's question before you press Allow.

Things to try

Ask in your own words. A few to start with:

• “Find the tracking number I copied yesterday.”
• “Start a 25 minute Pomodoro.”
• “Keep my Mac awake for two hours.”
• “What’s on my calendar tomorrow?”
• “Convert the PNGs in my file tray to JPEG.”
• “Search the Droplet Store for a weather droplet.”
• “Turn off auto-hide for the floating file tray.”
• “Tell me in the notch when the build is done.”

Troubleshooting

For Droplet developers

Droplets can offer tools of their own. A Droplet adopts MCPToolProviding from DroppyKit and its tools show up next to Droppy's, and every action it registers with DropletShortcutsService shows up too, with no extra work. See Tools for AI apps in the DroppyKit docs.

Open Settings, Droplet 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 notch, 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 40 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 Termi-Notch Quick access terminal in your notch Calendar Tasks & Notes Pomodoro Focus and break timer in your notch Meetings Mute, camera, and share from the notch Notes Quick notes that live in your notch Thunderstorm A full Spotlight replacement Obsidian Your vault, live in the notch Weather Live weather in your notch and on your lock screen Action Ring Hold a shortcut, pick from a ring of actions Teleprompter Read your script right under the camera DropClip Select text anywhere, act on it instantly Xcode Builds Build progress and results in your notch Things 3 Your Things tasks, inside Droppy

Media

Spotify Control playback from your notch Apple Music Controls Native controls for Apple Music Lyrics Timed lyrics beside your media widget Audio Control Per-app volume sliders Kaset YouTube Music through Kaset

AI

Remove Background BiRefNet, external runtime Voice Transcribe On-device speech-to-text transcription Agents Live Claude, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity & OpenCode progress in the notch MCP Let AI apps use Droppy, with your permission

Capture

Element Capture Capture any screen element instantly Camera Live notch camera preview Text Capture Extract text from your screen, images, and PDFs

Files

Finder Services Right-click → Add to Droppy Droppy Cloud Temporary file sharing with 3-day cleanup LocalSend AirDrop for every device, no cloud

System

Window Snap Pointer + keyboard window management Notifications Show notifications in your notch Stay Awake Keep your Mac awake LiquidMouse Liquid smooth scrolling + reverse option Thaw Hide and manage menu bar items, by Toni Förster Mechey Mechanical keyboard sound effects System Stats Live Mac stats in your notch Emoji Picker Your emoji, one shortcut away Lid Fold Your MacBook opens and closes like an iPhone Duo Cleaner Uninstall apps completely and clear out caches CleanMyMac Scan and cleanup progress in your notch

From the Droplet Store

Published to the Droplet Store. Each one opens on its Store page.

The app is 100% free, now and always. It is currently available on TestFlight. 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

Inside Thunderstorm

Keys that work while the launcher is open. ⌘ K lists everything else a row can do, each action with its own shortcut. More in the Thunderstorm guide.

AI quick action preview

Translator

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, file tray contents and Droplet configuration all carry across, including when you move between channels.

The full history is on the changelog.

• On-device by default. Text Capture, Remove Background, Voice Transcribe and Transform 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.
• AI apps get only what you allow. MCP is off until you turn it on, every permission is its own switch, and nothing listens on the network. See MCP.
• 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 Get sets up the droplet and its model

How to use it

1. Press Get once on its page in Settings, Droplet Store. That adds the Droplet and downloads the BiRefNet model in one go, and after that it never touches the network again.
2. Drop an image in the file tray or the floating file tray, right-click it and choose Remove Background. Thunderstorm can run it on a found image too.
3. Or put the Remove Background widget in the notch and drop images straight onto it. Each one comes back cut out on a checkerboard, ready to drag out, copy or show in Finder.
4. 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

• Notch widget
• File action
• Droppy for iPhone

Workflows

Tips

• It processes one image at a time. Drop several on the widget and it cuts them out one after another.
• 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 close to 1 GB and downloads when you press Get. Deleting the Droplet from its page removes the runtime and the model with it.

Getting it

Use the Droppy Alfred workflow to push files into the file tray or the floating file tray 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 the Droppy action for the file tray or the floating file tray. The files land in the notch's file tray or in a floating file tray 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 Action 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 into the file tray or the floating file tray.

Where it shows up

• Global shortcut
• Action Ring button
• File action

Workflows

Tips

• Every capture mode is available as an Action 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 the file tray, the floating file tray, 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.

Use the floating player for music controls, artwork and supported lyrics or queue features in the menu bar or on your desktop.

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
• 21 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 an Action 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

• Notch widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Action Ring button
• 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
• Action Ring button

Workflows

Tips

• Snap actions can sit on the Action 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

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

• Notch widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Action Ring button

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 in the file tray and pick the cloud tile, use the floating file tray'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. The menu shows up to five recent shares. Select one to copy its link, or choose Manage Droppy Cloud to open its Settings page.

Where it shows up

• Lock screen
• Action Ring button
• 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.

Use the floating player for music controls, artwork and supported lyrics or queue features in the menu bar or on your desktop.

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. Under System integration, choose how notifications arrive. Instant shows each one in the notch at once and needs Screen Recording and Accessibility; keep desktop banners on for your apps. Standard needs no extra permission: turn banners off for your apps in macOS Notifications settings, and Droppy shows each notification a few seconds later.
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.
5. Discord notifications get Reply in Discord, which takes you straight to that exact chat in the Discord app so you can reply there, the way a click on Discord's own banner does. Discord's notifications have no reply action, so Droppy cannot send for you. Going to the exact chat needs Accessibility access and works while Discord's own banner for that message is still up, about five seconds; after that, or when several Discord messages arrive as a group, the button says Open Discord and opens the app. Set Discord's notifications to Persistent in System Settings to keep the exact chat one click away for as long as the notification shows.

Where it shows up

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

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

Workflows

Tips

• No macOS banner appears in either mode: Instant keeps it off screen, Standard has macOS skip it. Instant uses Standard until both of its permissions are allowed. Persistent alerts and notifications Droppy cannot display keep their native banners.
• Turning desktop banners off in macOS removes the fast capture source. Droppy can still read saved notifications, but they may arrive later.
• 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 notch widget, the menu bar or an Action 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

• Notch widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Action Ring button
• 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 Action 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.
4. Connect Things 3 from Calendar settings to show its tasks alongside your calendars. Choose a Things list, or use its @list mention, to save a new task in Things.

Where it shows up

• Notch widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Action Ring button
• 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

Adds a live camera preview widget to your notch. It is designed for quick camera checks while staying in your active workflow.

What it does

• Live camera preview widget in the notch
• Full preview mode with aligned notch padding
• Low-latency startup with smooth transitions

How to use it

1. Turn it on to add the Camera widget to the notch. 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

• Notch 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

• Scrub Focus or Break to any length, from 1 minute to 8 hours
• Start or stop sessions instantly from the notch
• Compact HUD with live session progress
• Optional focus title per session

How to use it

1. Pick Focus or Break, scrub the time tape to the length you want and press Start Timer in the notch. With Start instantly on, opening the widget starts your last timer straight away; right-click the running widget to go back to the picker.
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

• Notch widget
• Live Activity
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Action Ring button
• Droppy for iPhone

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

Workflows

Tips

• The Action 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, Droplet 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.

Use the floating player for music controls, artwork and supported lyrics or queue features in the menu bar or on your desktop.

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 in supported apps
• End the call instantly
• Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and Telegram Web
• Native WhatsApp calls as an optional beta, off by default
• 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 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
• Action Ring button
• 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.
• For native WhatsApp calls, turn on WhatsApp calls (Beta) in Meetings settings and allow Accessibility. This beta starts off.

Getting it

Jot down a thought the second it crosses your mind, straight from the notch. 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 notch
• Live markdown editing with smart lists, headings, and tables
• Notes auto-save as you type and sort by last edit
• Works standalone or alongside your other Home widgets
• Reopen any note exactly where you left off

How to use it

1. Open a note in one click from the notch, 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

• Notch widget
• Lock screen
• Global shortcut
• Action Ring button
• Droppy for iPhone

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

Workflows

Tips

• The Action 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

Thunderstorm is Droppy's own launcher. Press Option-Space, or the shortcut you set on Droppy's Shortcuts page, to search your apps, files and System Settings pages, calculate and convert units, money, dates and time zones, and search the web. Droppy is in it too: its commands, your droplets with their widgets and settings, Droppy's settings, clipboard history and the file tray come up in the same search. Add quicklinks, snippets and commands of your own, move windows and keep workspaces, chat with AI or fix, rewrite and translate the text you select, and give anything it lists an alias, a hotkey or a place in your favorites.

What it does

• Option-Space by default, or any shortcut you set on Droppy's Shortcuts page
• Search apps, files, System Settings pages, clipboard history and Droppy in one panel
• Quicklinks, snippets that expand as you type, and shell and script commands
• Window commands, saved layouts, workspaces and a window switcher
• A calculator for units, currencies, dates and time zones
• An alias, a hotkey or a favorite for anything it lists, and links that run it
• Quit or uninstall apps, control volume and media, lock, sleep or restart
• AI chat and quick actions on this Mac or with your own key, and extensions in Alpha

How to use it

1. Turn it on from the Droplet Store. It opens on Option-Space; record another shortcut on its Open panel row on Droppy's Shortcuts page.
2. Type to search apps, files, System Settings pages, Droppy's settings and commands, your Droplets, clipboard history and the file tray at once.
3. Press Return to open the highlighted row, or ⌘K for everything else it can do. Each action in that menu shows its shortcut, and the shortcut works straight from the list.
4. Choose Expanded or Compact under Window on its page. Expanded lists your favorites and apps under the search bar; Compact is the bar alone, with results once you type.

Search and ranking

• One search covers apps, files and folders, System Settings pages, Droppy's settings and droplets, system commands, your library of quicklinks, snippets, scripts and notes, extensions, the calculator, the web, clipboard history, the file trays and window commands. Each kind has its own switch under Search results.
• A small slip still finds things: one wrong letter in four or more (safri), initials (vsc for Visual Studio Code, gb for GarageBand) and scattered letters in order. Those rank below anything that matches better.
• Apps answer to their English name, their names in other languages, older names like iTunes or System Preferences, and Latin spellings of names in other scripts. A bundle identifier such as com.apple.Safari finds its app too.
• It learns: what you open for a search moves up the next time you type it. ⌘1 to ⌘0, hotkeys and links never teach it. Reset Ranking in ⌘K forgets one row, and Reset learned ranking in its settings forgets everything.
• Type a section's name, such as Quicklinks, Snippets, System Settings, Window management or Extensions, to list the whole section.
• With nothing typed, the expanded launcher shows your favorites, then Suggestions (a few things you often open at this time of day), then your apps. The switches under Before you type add system commands, quicklinks, snippets, window commands, layouts, workspaces and extensions below them.
• A running app has a small dot under its icon.

Aliases, favorites and hiding

• Set Alias… in ⌘K gives any row another name, shown as a small tag after its title. Typing the alias puts that row first. Two rows never share an alias: Thunderstorm asks before it moves one.
• Type an alias and a space to go straight to the fields of a quicklink, snippet or command that needs input.
• ⇧⌘F adds any row to Favorites, System Settings pages and droplet pages included. ⌥⌘↑ and ⌥⌘↓ change their order.
• ⇧⌘H hides a row from search, with Undo in the pill. Its favorite, alias and hotkey keep working, and Hidden from search in its settings brings it back.

The panel and its keys

• ⌘K, or a right-click, opens the actions of a row. The menu has its own search field, and Escape closes only the menu.
• Escape clears what you typed, then goes back a screen, then closes. ⌘Esc goes back to the main search from any screen, and Delete on an empty field goes back one. Escape key can make it close and reset at once instead.
• A quicklink, snippet or command that needs input shows labelled fields after its name. Tab moves between them, and Return runs once every required field is filled.
• With nothing typed, Tab moves on to AI Chat (once AI is on) and Clipboard History, and ⇧Tab goes back. Space opens Search Files.
• The compact bar can end with up to five favorites, opened with ⌘1 to ⌘5. ↓ shows the full list.
• Drag the launcher by its search bar to place it. It snaps to the middle of the screen and its usual height, remembers the spot per display, and Recenter in its footer menu puts it back.
• A pill confirms what an action did: a check when something changed, a dot when there was nothing to do, and a red mark with the reason when it failed.
• The keys are listed under Inside Thunderstorm in the keyboard shortcuts reference.

Apps and system commands

• ⌘K on an app adds Get Info and Share…, and for a running app Hide, Hide Others, Restart Application, Quit Application and Force Quit, which asks first.
• Uninstall… lists the app and its leftover files in your Library folders, each with a checkbox and its size. Folders matched only by name start unchecked, and anything that needs Full Disk Access stays where it is. Everything goes to the Trash, and Put Back in the pill undoes it.
• System commands: Lock Screen, Sleep, Log Out, Restart, Shut Down, Quit All Apps, Hide All Apps, Eject All Disks, Start Screen Saver, Show Desktop, Toggle Dark Mode, Toggle Stage Manager, Dismiss Notifications, Play or Pause, Next Track, Previous Track, the volume commands, Open Trash, Empty Trash, Toggle Hidden Files, Toggle Bluetooth, Toggle Wi-Fi and Toggle Microphone.
• Log Out, Restart, Shut Down, Quit All Apps and Empty Trash ask first in a dialog. Quit All Apps leaves Finder and Droppy open.
• Volume commands step by 5 percent and show the level in Droppy's own volume HUD.
• System commands under Search results has a switch for every one of them.

Quicklinks and snippets

• A quicklink opens a website, a search, a file, a folder or an app's link by its name or keyword, in the app you choose. Create Quicklink makes one, and Save as Quicklink… in ⌘K turns a link, a file or a web search into one.
• A snippet is text you paste from Thunderstorm, or expand in any app by typing its keyword once Turn keywords into snippets as you type is on. That switch is off until you turn it on, and it needs Input Monitoring. Save as Snippet… in ⌘K makes one from clipboard text.
• Placeholders fill in when it runs: {argument} (with a name, a default or a list of choices), {selection}, {clipboard}, {date}, {time}, {uuid}, {cursor} and {snippet name="…"}. Modifiers such as | trim or | uppercase change a value, and the editor previews the result.
• Search Quicklinks and Search Snippets list everything with a detail pane, to open, copy, edit, duplicate, pin with ⌘. or delete. Both import and export a readable JSON file and skip duplicates.
• Snippets folder keeps each snippet as a Markdown file, to sync with iCloud Drive or Git, and picks up edits made outside Droppy. A Markdown snippet pastes as rich text where the app takes it.

Shell and script commands

• Turn on Allow shell commands under Scripts to add commands of your own: a name, the command, a working folder and up to three values. The values are asked for in the launcher and reach the shell as $1, $2 and $3. The switch is off until you turn it on, and Droppy asks first.
• A command can ask before it runs, and show its output in a window with live colors, Stop, Run Again and Copy All. Otherwise its last line shows in a pill.
• Every script in the scripts folder becomes a command, set up by its header: title, mode, icon, arguments (text, password or dropdown), confirmation and working folder. An inline script shows its first line of output on its row and can refresh on a schedule.
• Import Raycast Scripts copies a folder of script commands into Thunderstorm, icons included.
• Your Apple Shortcuts are commands too. Type a shortcut's name and some text to run it with that text as its input.
• The Shell fallback runs what you typed in your login shell. It is off by default and only offered while shell commands are allowed.

Clipboard

• Clipboard History, also a Tab away on an empty search, shows your history by day with pinned items on top and a preview of text, images, files, colors and links.
• ⌘P steps through All, Text, Images, Files, Colors, Links, Emails and your clipboard tags.
• Return pastes, ⌘Return copies, ⌥Return pastes and keeps the launcher open, and ⇧⌘Return pastes as plain text. ⌘. pins an item and ⌘1 to ⌘0 paste the first ten pinned ones.
• ⌃X deletes an item. ⌃⇧X clears the history but keeps pinned, favorite and tagged items.
• Return copies clipboard items swaps Return and ⌘Return, in the main search too.
• Paste One by One pastes your newest clip, then an older one with every press of its hotkey.
• Find clips by their text finds items by the text inside them, read on this Mac. It is off by default.

AI chat

• Switch on Turn on AI on the AI page. AI is off until you do, and chats use the model on this Mac first: Apple's on-device model, private, free and text only, on macOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence on.
• Add OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini or OpenRouter with your own API key, or a custom server that speaks OpenAI's API, such as one running on your Mac. Keys stay in your Keychain, and nothing leaves your Mac unless you choose a cloud model.
• Under Command-line tools, Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI can answer with the sign-in they already have. Each is off until you turn it on.
• With nothing typed, Tab opens AI Chat. With text typed, Tab sends it to a new chat on your Quick questions model, and the Ask AI fallback does the same at the end of a search. Ask AI About This (⌘J) starts a chat about a file, a clipboard item or text.
• The search field is where you type: Return sends, Return again stops a reply, and ↑ brings back your last question. Escape clears the field, then leaves the chat, which is kept, and a reply keeps coming after the launcher closes. ⌘P picks the model and its reasoning effort.
• AI Chat, New AI Chat, AI Chat Window and AI Chat History are commands, so each can have a hotkey.
• Attach pictures, PDFs and text files by pasting or dropping them, or with Attach File… (⇧⌘A), Attach Shelf Files (⌥⌘S) and Attach Clipboard (⇧⌘V). Delete in an empty field removes the last one, and a file the model cannot read is refused before it is sent.
• Replies show Markdown, tables, code blocks with a Copy button and math, with a model's reasoning folded away until you open it.
• ⌘D moves the chat to its own window, with every chat in a sidebar. ⌘Y opens the chat history, ⌘. pins a chat, ⌃X deletes it and ⌃⇧X deletes every chat but the pinned ones.
• Continue the last chat (within 10 minutes, by default) and Keep chats (forever, by default) decide what comes back. Chats stay on this Mac and never go in a backup. Say when a reply is ready tells you in the notch when a reply finishes off screen.
• Custom instructions go with every chat, and Allow web search lets a chat search the web with ⇧⌘S when its model can.
• Use MCP servers lets chats call tools from local or remote MCP servers, with their secrets and sign-ins in your Keychain. It is off until you turn it on, and each tool asks before it runs: Allow Once, Allow in This Chat, Always Allow or Don't Allow. A server's page sets each tool to Ask, Always allow or Never.

AI quick actions

• Select text in any app, then run Fix Grammar, Rewrite, Summarize or Translate from Thunderstorm or its hotkey. The launcher closes first, so the action works on the app behind it. Like AI chat, they wait until AI is on.
• Fix Grammar replaces the selection at once, with its progress in the notch, and Rewrite shows a preview first; the Result of either can be switched. Summarize and Translate always show a preview.
• In the preview, Return puts the result in place of the selection, ⌘C copies it, ⌘R tries again, ⌘D shows or hides what changed, and Escape closes it. ⌘. stops an action while it works. If the result cannot go back in place, it is copied and a pill says so.
• Droppy reads the selection through Accessibility, which it asks for the first time an action runs. It never reads password fields or text while secure input is on.
• Translate uses Apple's translation on this Mac on macOS 15 and later. On macOS 14, or for a pair of languages it does not know, your AI model translates instead. With nothing selected it opens the translator: two columns, where Return copies the translation, ⌘Return pastes it, ⌘S swaps the languages and ⌘L picks the language to translate into.
• ⌥⌘T in ⌘K translates a clipboard item, recognized text or a transcript.
• Your actions on the AI quick actions page adds actions of your own: a name, an icon, instructions, whether the result replaces the selection or shows a preview, and a model with its reasoning effort. Every action, yours and the built-in ones, can have an alias and a hotkey.

Files

• Search Files, or Space on an empty search, finds files by name in the folders under Searched folders. Every word has to match, in any order, and tag:Red keeps one Finder tag.
• With nothing typed it lists your recent files. ⌘P filters by kind (Documents, PDFs, Images, Video, Audio, Code, Archives, Folders) or by tag.
• A detail pane previews the file and shows where it is, its kind, size and dates. ⌘Y opens Quick Look.
• ⌘K adds Open With…, Get Info, Share…, Copy File, Paste File, Move To…, Copy To… and Move to Trash, which Undo in the pill puts back.
• Search file contents and Find images and PDFs by their text look inside files too. Both are off by default, and the text is read on this Mac.
• Left out of search keeps folders and patterns such as node_modules or *.log out of every result.

Windows, layouts and workspaces

• Window commands move the window in front, with or without the Window Snap droplet: halves, quarters, thirds, two thirds, three quarters, Maximize, Almost Maximize, Reasonable Size, Center, Make Larger, Make Smaller, Nudge, Restore, Toggle Full Screen and moving to another display. They need Accessibility, which Droppy asks for the first time one runs.
• On repeat sets what running a command again does (Cycle sizes, by default), and Window spacing leaves up to 64 pt between them.
• Previous and next Space commands are off until you turn them on. They press your Mission Control shortcuts.
• Save Window Layout keeps where your windows are. Running the layout puts them back and opens the apps that are missing.
• Create Workspace picks a project's windows and apps. Entering it arranges them (Tab picks Best fit, Side by side, Main and side, Tiles, Cascade, As arranged or As you left it) and hides every other app. Leave Workspace puts every window back. Nothing is ever closed.

Window switcher, menus and words

• Switch Windows lists every open window, the app you used last first and minimized windows last. Give it a hotkey: press it again for the next window, or hold the modifiers and keep pressing to cycle.
• Search Menu Items lists every menu item of the app in front, with its path and shortcut, and runs the one you pick. Include the Apple menu and Apps left out of menu search are under Window switcher and menus.
• Next Input Source, and one command per keyboard input source, switch your keyboard.
• Type define and a word for its meaning. Return shows the whole entry, and ⌘Return opens the Dictionary app.

Calculator and conversions

• Type a sum and the answer shows as you type, labelled with what it is. Return copies it and keeps it in Calculator History.
• It reads everyday maths: 4(2+3), 2pi, 5x3, 1e5, 3k, 2.5 million, square root of 25, half of 80, 10 mod 3, functions such as sqrt, log and gcd, and hex, binary and octal written with 0x, 0b and 0o. Numbers follow your Mac's format, and a single word never calculates.
• Units convert across length, mass, time, temperature, volume, area, speed, energy, power, electricity, data and more: 5 ft 3 in, 1h 30min, 100 Mbps to MB/s, 10kg + 20%.
• Money converts by currency code, symbol or name, and common cryptocurrencies by ticker. A lone amount converts to your Mac's own currency. Rates are kept on your Mac, so conversions still work offline with the last ones.
• Dates: days till 9 apr, today + 3 weeks, 10 workdays from today, next friday, Unix timestamps and ISO 8601.
• Time zones, worked out on your Mac: time in tokyo, 3pm london in nyc, 10:00 cet to pst, with (tomorrow) or (yesterday) when the day changes.
• 15% tip on 80, 20% off 95 and 20 is what % of 80 come back labelled Tip, Discount and Ratio.
• ⌘Return (Keep Calculating), or an operator typed right after you copy an answer, carries on from it. ⇧⌘Return copies the expression.
• Calculator History lists every answer you copied. Return copies it again, ⌃X deletes one and ⌃⇧X clears them all. Type = alone for the latest.
• A color in hex, rgb(), hsl() or oklch() shows a swatch, and ⌘K copies it as hex, rgba(), hsl(), oklch(), SwiftUI Color or NSColor.

Notes and emoji

• Show Notes opens a floating window over every app with your Notes, the same notes the notch shows. It keeps its size and place, and a double-click on its top bar snaps it to the top-right corner.
• Text formats as you type and Return continues a list. A button on its top bar sends the note back to the notch.
• In the window, ⌘N starts a note, ⌘P switches notes, ⌘F finds and ⌘⌫ deletes the note, with Undo.
• The launcher searches everything your notes say, with Rename Note… and Move to Trash… in ⌘K. Type note and a title to start one.
• With the Emoji Picker droplet on, type its trigger, ; unless you changed it, for the emoji grid. Return pastes into the app behind and ⌘Return copies, the other way round when Emoji Picker is set to copy. ⌥Return pastes and keeps the grid open. It searches in your Mac's languages.

Meetings and camera

• Turn on Meetings in Thunderstorm under Meetings and camera to see your next meetings. It is off until you do, and Droppy says why it wants your calendars before macOS asks.
• A join card sits above everything from a few minutes before a meeting (5 by default) until it ends. Return joins the call, ⌘Return copies its link and ⌘I shows the details.
• It finds call links for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Jitsi Meet, Whereby, Amazon Chime, GoTo Meeting, BlueJeans, Skype, FaceTime and Slack huddles. Zoom, Teams, Chime and FaceTime open in their apps when installed; the rest open in the browser you choose.
• Choose which calendars count and how far ahead to look. Declined, cancelled, all-day and finished events stay out.
• Join automatically opens each meeting as it starts, after a question unless Ask before joining is off. Camera check shows your camera first instead. Both are off by default.
• Join Next Meeting and Show Today's Meetings work from anywhere, and Next meeting in the notch shows a short card in the notch as each join card appears.
• Open Camera shows a live preview. Space takes a photo to the clipboard and clipboard history, ⌘M mirrors it, and the camera turns off the moment it closes.

Hotkeys and deeplinks

• Anything Thunderstorm lists can have a global hotkey of its own: apps, System Settings pages, commands, quicklinks, snippets, scripts, window commands, layouts, workspaces and extension commands. Set Hotkey… in ⌘K opens its row on Droppy's Shortcuts page.
• A hotkey can be a key combination, a mouse button, or a modifier tapped twice, such as the right ⌘.
• An app's hotkey opens the app, and hides it when it is already in front. An entry that needs input opens on its fields.
• Copy Deeplink in ⌘K copies a droppy://thunderstorm/run link that runs the entry from Shortcuts, a script or a web page. A link from outside Droppy asks once per command before it runs it.
• droppy://thunderstorm opens the launcher, and droppy://thunderstorm/search?query=… opens it searching.

Extensions

Extensions are in Alpha: many commands work, some cannot run yet, and some look rough.

• Turn on Run extensions on the Extensions page. It is off until you do, and Droppy asks first, because extensions are other people's code. They run on Node.js, installed only when you ask for it.
• Browse and search the store on the same page, by category, with screenshots and every command on an extension's page. Import Raycast Extensions brings in the extensions you already installed in Raycast; their sign-ins and preferences stay behind.
• A command that needs input shows its fields in the launcher. Menu bar commands get an item in the menu bar, and interval commands can run quietly in the background.
• An extension can sign in to an account through your browser, and Droppy keeps what it gets in the Keychain. Sign out is on its page. An extension that signs in through a page only Raycast can answer cannot sign in from Droppy.
• Each command can be turned off, hidden from search, or given an alias and a hotkey, and each extension can get a custom icon. Update extensions automatically installs new versions from the store.
• Developer mode adds extension folders from your Mac, reloaded when they change, and source registries built here.
• Uninstalling removes its commands with their hotkeys and aliases, and its preferences, sign-ins and stored data.
• An extension that uses AI gets its answers from the models you set up in Thunderstorm AI, after asking you once. Your answer shows on its page, where Remove makes it ask again. A command running in the background never asks; it can use AI only if you allowed its extension before.

Backup

• Export Thunderstorm Backup, or Export… on the Backup page, saves your library, what the launcher learned and its settings to one readable JSON file. The switches under In a backup choose the parts; clipboard history stays out unless you switch it on.
• Import Thunderstorm Backup shows what a file holds and lets you pick the parts to bring in. An import adds to what you have and removes nothing: an item that is already here is skipped, one whose name is taken gets a number, and one that points at a file or app this Mac lacks is left out. A summary then says what each part did.
• Ranking by use is the one part that replaces this Mac's own, so it starts unticked when this Mac has learned something already.
• A file with shell commands or scripts asks first, and you can leave them out.
• A backup never holds passwords, API keys, sign-ins, extensions or AI chats, and never carries a switch only you turn on: shell commands, extensions, snippet expansion, text recognition, AI, MCP servers, meeting auto-join and the camera check.
• Keep a readable copy writes a JSON file of your library and settings to a folder you choose, and rewrites it when they change. Import it like any backup on another Mac.
• Import Raycast Settings reads a Raycast 2.x export with the passphrase you chose when you made it. You type the passphrase; Droppy uses it once and never looks in the Keychain for it. Quicklinks ({Query} becomes {argument}), snippets, aliases, hotkeys, favorites, clipboard history and the launcher's look come in through the same review and summary, and snippet expansion stays off.

Its settings

Thunderstorm's own page holds the Window choice and a link to its shortcuts, then a page for each of these.

Where it shows up

• Global shortcut
• Action Ring button
• Menu bar

Workflows

Tips

• An alias lets you call anything what you actually call it, rather than what its developer named it.
• ⌘1 to ⌘0 open the first ten rows of the list. Hold ⌘ to see the numbers.
• Its own settings pages choose what shows up: whole kinds of results, single System Settings pages, single system commands, the fallbacks at the end of a search, and files left out of search.

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 notch card
• Answer questions and approvals from the notch
• Fully local, with no agent data sent to Droppy

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; open the notch for a card with 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

• Notch 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

• Notch 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

• Notch 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

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 in the file tray.

What it does

• Works with the free LocalSend app on iOS, Android, Windows, and Linux
• Send from the file tray, floating file tray, and quick actions
• Received files land in your folder and in the file tray
• 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 file tray, the floating file tray 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 in the notch. 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 editor as Notes
• Works standalone or alongside other Home 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 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

• Notch 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 in your notch and on your 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

• Notch 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

Choose any two of CPU, RAM, GPU, disk, battery, network and temperature, or the apps working hardest, and tune how often they sample. Optional notch alerts and a menu bar readout keep watch while the shelf is closed; with both off, nothing samples in the background.

What it does

• Live CPU, RAM, GPU, disk, battery, network, and temperature
• Pick two cards, or show every stat with Superstats
• Optional notch alerts and a menu bar readout
• Rolling history graph for every stat

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 notch closes.

Where it shows up

• Notch 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 notch 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 notch 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 notch

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

• Notch widget
• Global shortcut
• Action Ring button
• File action
• Droppy for iPhone

Workflows

Tips

• Recent extractions stay in the Text Capture notch 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 Action 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

• Notch 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 playback from the notch with transport controls, queue inspection, and track context while you work.

Use the floating player for music controls, artwork and supported lyrics or queue features in the menu bar or on your desktop.

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 under your pointer. 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 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

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

• Lid Fold requires a working lid angle sensor. Droppy checks for one before allowing it to be enabled. Turning Follow the lid off selects timed playback on a supported Mac; it does not remove the sensor requirement.
• Allow Screen Recording and the fold carries exactly what your screen showed. If permission or capture is unavailable, the fold is cancelled and the real display stays visible.
• 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 in the notch, 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 notch 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
• Notch 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 notch stays open while the script runs, even over a full-screen call.

Where it shows up

• Notch 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

Select text anywhere and act on it from a pill on Droppy's Dynamic Glass. Hold the mouse to summon it, or press its shortcut to search every action. Add your own snippets, links and scripts, install extensions from a file, and bring your own AI provider or run one on your Mac. Based on OpenClip by Ganesh M, under the MIT License.

What it does

• Contextual actions for any selected text
• AI writing, transforms, math and search inline
• Your own snippets, links, scripts and extensions
• Runs inside Droppy, settings and shortcuts included

How to use it

1. Get it from the Droplet Store. It runs inside Droppy, so there is no separate app to install or keep open.
2. Select text in any app and DropClip's pill appears beside it with copy, search, calculate, AI writing and your own actions, on Droppy's Dynamic Glass.
3. Every setting is a page of Droppy's Settings, under DropClip, and every shortcut is on Droppy's Shortcuts page.

Where it shows up

• Global shortcut

Workflows

Tips

• Coming from OpenClip, your settings, actions, extensions and AI keys come across on the first start.
• Extensions install from a file: a folder, a .zip archive or a script.
• DropClip is an MIT-licensed fork of OpenClip by Ganesh M, taken before OpenClip moved to the AGPL. Its source is public in the Droplet Store repository, and every licence it carries ships inside it: License on its page in Settings opens them.

Getting it

Pick an app, right-click one in the File Tray, on the shelf or floating, or type uninstall in Thunderstorm, and Cleaner lists it with every file it left in your Library, each with its size and exact path. Files named after the app start checked, guesses start unchecked, and nothing moves until you confirm. Clean up storage sizes app caches, logs, Xcode build data and developer caches the same way, and everything goes to the Trash.

What it does

• Uninstall apps together with their leftover files
• Review every item and its location before anything moves
• Clear app caches, logs and Xcode build data
• Everything goes to the Trash, so you can put it back
• Optional scheduled cleaning of caches and logs

How to use it

1. Add Cleaner from Settings, Droplet Store. Under Uninstall apps, Choose… opens your Applications folder; pick an app and Cleaner lists it with every file it left in your Library.
2. Or right-click an app in the File Tray or the Floating Tray and choose Uninstall… for the same review. Thunderstorm's uninstall command finds the same files with the same rules, in the launcher.
3. Read the list before you confirm. Each item shows its size and exact location, files named after the app's identifier start checked, and anything matched only by name starts unchecked.
4. Open Clean up storage to size app caches, logs, Xcode build data, developer caches and device support files, then choose what goes.

Where it shows up

• File action

Workflows

Tips

• Nothing is ever deleted outright: every item goes to the Trash, and Put Back on the result returns the app and its files to where they were.
• Files an app left in the shared Library folder ask for your password, so they start unchecked unless the app itself asks for one too.
• If another copy of the same app is on your Mac, nothing starts checked, because that copy still uses those settings.
• Without Full Disk Access, app containers are only looked up by name and never opened, so macOS asks nothing. Grant it under Optional permission for a deeper scan.
• Cleaner never offers macOS's own apps, Droppy itself, Apple's caches, or anything in Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures or iCloud Drive.

Getting it

Let your AI app work with Droppy's clipboard, files, calendar, notes, timers, media and Thunderstorm commands. Connect supported apps from MCP settings, choose their permissions and review what they do. Turning the droplet off closes its connections and stops access.

What it does

• Connect buttons for Claude, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
• Each permission has its own switch
• Approval before sensitive or destructive actions
• Review connected apps and their activity
• Supports tools from compatible installed droplets

How to use it

1. Turn on MCP in the Droplet Store, then open its settings.
2. Choose which permissions to allow. Every permission starts off.
3. Use the Connect button for Claude, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex, then follow any instructions shown for that app.
4. Ask your connected AI app to use Droppy. Review permission requests before allowing sensitive actions.

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, Droplet Store.

Workflows

Tips

• MCP connects an AI app to Droppy. It does not require turning on Thunderstorm's separate AI chat.
• Turning MCP off keeps your settings so you can enable it again later.

Getting it

Keep an eye on CleanMyMac while you work in another app. Droppy follows its active module, scan progress and cleanup results, using the same progress rings as its other live activities. Click the activity to return to CleanMyMac.

What it does

• Compact and expanded live activity views
• Scan and cleanup progress rings
• Completion results at a glance
• Open CleanMyMac from the activity
• Included in Droppy, with no separate droplet download

How to use it

1. Enable CleanMyMac in Settings, Live Activities.
2. Allow Accessibility so Droppy can read CleanMyMac's progress.
3. Start a scan or cleanup in the CleanMyMac app. Its progress appears in the notch, with a result when it finishes.

Where it shows up

• Live Activity

The compact activity shows scan or cleanup progress. Expand it for details, or click to return to CleanMyMac. It has no shelf widget.

Workflows

Tips

• The droplet is included in Droppy and needs the CleanMyMac app installed separately. There is no shelf widget to add.
• Start scans and cleanup in CleanMyMac. Droppy observes progress; it does not start cleaning or remove files.
• The detail available depends on the CleanMyMac version and language.

Getting it

Droppy watches Xcode's local build activity and keeps the status in your notch. Use optional estimated progress learned from successful builds, choose how long results stay visible, and open Xcode from the activity.

What it does

• Compact and expanded live activity views
• The real Xcode app icon
• Elapsed time and build results
• Optional learned progress estimates
• Adjustable success and failure display duration
• Included in Droppy, with no separate droplet download

How to use it

1. Enable Xcode Builds in Settings, Live Activities.
2. Start a build in Xcode 27. Droppy follows builds from its standard or global DerivedData location.
3. Follow elapsed time in the compact activity, expand it for details, and see the result when the build finishes.

Where it shows up

• Live Activity

The compact activity shows the current build. Expand it for details and see its result when it finishes. It has no shelf widget.

Workflows

Tips

• The droplet is included in Droppy. There is no separate download or shelf widget to add.
• Command-line, preview and indexing builds are excluded. Cancelled or unknown results are never presented as successful builds.

Getting it

Bring your Things tasks into Droppy without moving them out of Things. Browse and edit tasks, projects, areas and tags in a dedicated window, or connect them to the Calendar droplet for a shared view of your day.

What it does

• Create, edit and complete tasks
• Organize projects, areas and tags
• Set dates and deadlines
• Show Things tasks alongside your calendars
• Capture tasks from Calendar with @list mentions
• Adaptive icon in Light, Dark, Clear and Tinted styles

How to use it

1. Install Things 3 for Mac and open it on this computer.
2. Open Things 3 in Droppy Settings and click Connect. Choose Allow when macOS asks whether Droppy can control Things.
3. Click Open tasks to browse and edit your tasks, projects, areas and tags. Changes are saved in Things.

Use Things with Calendar

Turn on Show Things tasks in Calendar in the Things 3 droplet, or click Connect beside Things 3 in Calendar settings. Choose which Things lists appear, then view their scheduled tasks and deadlines alongside your calendars.

To create a Things task from Calendar, choose a Things list or type its @list mention. The task is saved in Things.

Extra scheduling (optional)

You can connect and use your tasks without this step. Add a token only to move existing tasks to Anytime, Someday or This Evening.

1. Open Things settings

   In Things, open Settings, General.

2. Enable Things URLs

   Turn on Enable Things URLs, then click Manage.

3. Copy and save the token

   In Droppy Settings, open Things 3, Extra scheduling (optional). Paste the token and click Save token.

Where it shows up

Open tasks in a dedicated Droppy window. When connected to the Calendar droplet, Things tasks also appear in Calendar's existing notch widget. Things 3 has no separate shelf widget.

Workflows

Tips

• Keep Things running so Droppy can refresh your tasks. Use Refresh if you want to check for changes immediately.
• Open Things to edit existing checklist contents, headings or repeat rules.
• If permission was denied, open System Settings, Privacy & Security, Automation, allow Droppy to control Things, then connect again.
• Things 3 for Mac is a separate app from Cultured Code.

Getting it