Droplet for Droppy
Droplets
Focused tools that live in your Mac's notch.
Droplets are the optional tools inside Droppy. Turn on the ones that fit how you work, and leave the rest off.
Droplets
Add only what you will actually use.
Droplets are the optional tools inside Droppy. Each one does a single job, lives in your notch, and stays off until you decide it earns a place. They are free, and they install in one click.
A utility app turns into a junk drawer fast. One timer, one window tool, one converter, and suddenly nobody can describe what the app is for.
Droplets are how I keep that pressure out of Droppy's core. A droplet is a focused tool you switch on because it fits your Mac. The shelf, the basket, the clipboard and the media surface stay coherent, and everything extra arrives as a module you can leave off.
Switching one off removes more than a toggle. It leaves the widget picker, stops asking for attention, and never requests a permission for a workflow you do not use. That also makes setup reversible: a tool can be worth it for one season of work and pointless in the next.
The rule I use is simple. Turn on a droplet when you can name the interruption it removes, and leave it off when the description merely sounds interesting.
A few worth starting with
The ones people reach for first. Every screenshot below is the droplet actually running.
Two ways to install one
Both end in the same place: a verified bundle, installed in one click, living in your notch.
The usual way
From inside Droppy
Open Droppy, go to Settings, Droplets, and press Get on the one you want. Droppy downloads it, checks it, and installs it. Nothing else to configure.
Everything in the shop is listed there, and updates arrive the same way. A few of the tools on this page are built into Droppy already, so there is nothing to install for those.
If someone sent you one
Drag the file onto the notch
Drop a .droplet file on your notch and Droppy installs it there and then.
Droppy reads the signature first. Anything I signed installs quietly. Anything from another developer is refused, and Droppy tells you exactly who signed it, because macOS only lets Droppy load code signed by my own team. Unsigned bundles are refused too.
Every droplet
All of them are free, and all of them are optional.
DroppyKit
Build your own droplet
Every droplet on this page is built against DroppyKit, the public SDK for the notch, open source under Apache 2.0. The shop is review-and-sign: you keep the source, Droppy reads it, signs it, and ships it, so people only ever install bundles Jordy signed.
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Build against the SDK
Grab DroppyKit on GitLab and build in your own repo. The dev harness runs your droplet without Droppy installed, so iteration is instant.
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Submit one commit
The form takes your repository and the exact commit to review. Private repos are fine, you keep ownership and you keep your history.
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Reviewed, then signed
Jordy reads the source himself, the reviewed snapshot is mirrored, and approved builds are signed with the Droppy Developer ID. Nothing unsigned can ever load.
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Live in the shop
Your droplet ships as one universal bundle, installs in one click from Settings, Droplets, and updates flow through the same review.
Already shipped by the community
Thaw
By Toni Förster, a tidy menu bar at last
Meetings
By Anurag Deshpande, meeting controls in the notch
High Alert
By Valetivivek, keeps your Mac awake
Three of the droplets in today's shop began exactly where you are now: someone's repo and the submission form.
Ready to ship yours?
The form takes a repository link and a few fields, and you can follow the review from the same page.