Droppy for iPhone

Your Mac library, quietly in reach.

Scan one code and your iPhone joins your Mac. Clipboard, files, notes and fifteen droplets, end to end encrypted.

Free while it is in beta. TestFlight is Apple's own beta program, and installing takes a minute.

One code, once

Your Mac shows a code. Scan it, confirm on the phone, done. The code works once, then expires.

End to end encrypted

Your Mac makes the key and keeps it in its Keychain. It reaches your iPhone inside the pairing code you scan, and it never reaches a server.

Free while it is in beta

The iPhone app costs nothing. Syncing needs an active Droppy licence on the Mac it pairs with.

Pairing

About a minute, start to finish.

Nothing joins your library without you approving it on the phone.

  1. Open Droppy on your Mac

    It lives in the menu bar and in the notch.

  2. 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 under it.

  4. Scan it, or paste it

    Confirm on the phone. Camera is the only permission it asks for.

Everything syncs with your iPhone.

Sealed on the device first, so the server only holds what it cannot read.

The Droppy companion app on three iPhones, showing the Basket, Clipboard and Pomodoro

On the phone

Everything your Mac keeps.

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

Clipboard

Everything your Mac copied, with the app it came from. Search it, filter to favourites, copy it back.

Basket and Shelf

The files you staged on the Mac. Open one, rename it, or hand it to another app.

OCR

Every text grab, still attached to the image it came from. The phone can add to it from the camera.

Notes

The same notes your Mac's shelf widget keeps. Write one here and it is on the shelf.

Cloud links

Every share link you made, from either device, with a copy button and a real delete.

Your devices

Revoke a phone, rotate its credential, or leave the library. Your licence card is here too.

Droplets

Fifteen droplets.

Some steer your Mac. Some just show it. Four run on the phone and need no Mac at all.

Mac controls

Reach across and change something

Now Playing

Artwork, progress, timed lyrics, and play, skip and back. The notch player, on a phone.

Audio Control

Your Mac's volume, mute, and output device, from the sofa.

Meetings

Mute the mic or kill the camera on the call running on your Mac.

Focus

Start, stop and scrub from the phone

Pomodoro

The focus timer in your notch, live. Set it on a tape that ticks under your thumb.

High Alert

Keep your Mac awake, for a while or indefinitely.

At a glance

Read-only

System Stats

CPU, memory, GPU, disk and battery. A snapshot per sync, not a live graph.

Weather

Your Mac's forecast, in this phone's units.

Agents

Which coding agents are running, and what each one is doing. No paths, no prompts.

Notes and tasks

One of these writes back

Calendar

Reminders and calendar events in one list. Tick a reminder off from here.

Notes

Create, edit, pin, search, delete.

Obsidian

Read and search the vault you linked on the Mac. Reading only.

On this iPhone

No Mac needed

OCR

Point the camera at a page and pull the text out, on the device.

AI Background Removal

Lift the subject out of a photo, on the phone. Nothing is uploaded.

Converter

Images, PDF pages and audio, converted on the phone. With a target size if you need one.

Voice Transcribe

Read the transcripts your Mac made. The phone never records.

Droppy Cloud

A link, without opening anything.

The same share links Droppy makes on your Mac, made from the phone.

  • 200 MBper file
  • 1 GBper link
  • 25files per link
  • 3 daysthen it expires

From the app

Add files or photos in the Cloud tab and get a private link back. No account needed on either end.

Refused before it uploads

The caps are checked on the phone, so an oversized file is named right away instead of after a long upload.

Yours to end early

Delete one before the three days are up and the files go for good, link included.

Cloud is a separate path from sync. A share link is a normal HTTPS link, not end to end encrypted.

Share sheet

Send it to your Mac from anywhere.

Anything you can share, you can put on your Mac.

My Droppy

Pick Clipboard, Basket or Shelf. If your Mac is not reachable, it waits and goes on the next launch instead of vanishing.

Cloud link

Upload and get the link back without opening Droppy at all. It is on your clipboard before the sheet closes.

Or ask Siri

Nine Shortcuts actions, six with a phrase that needs no setup. Any of them fits the Action button.

The rest

Small things, done properly.

Mac timer widget

The focus timer or High Alert running on your Mac, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, down to a circular accessory.

A pulse, not a spinner

Pull to refresh and the gradient comes alive, with a soft tap when your Mac answers. Nothing buzzes on its own.

Built for iOS 26

Liquid Glass, a soft scroll edge on every list, and Reduce Motion honoured everywhere. iPhone only, in sixty-five languages.

FAQ

About Droppy for iPhone

Yes. It is a companion to Droppy on the Mac, not a standalone app, and an unpaired iPhone stays on the pairing screen on purpose. Four droplets then run on the phone itself, but the pairing comes first.
Nothing. The app is free on TestFlight while it is in beta. Syncing needs an active Droppy licence on the Mac you pair with, the same one-time $9.99 licence that covers two Macs. If it lapses your pairing survives, and Droppy says so instead of quietly unpairing the phone.
No. Every record is sealed on the device with its own key, derived from a root your Mac made and keeps in its Keychain. That root reaches your iPhone inside the pairing code and never reaches a server. The phone's own clipboard is only read when you tap Paste. Droppy Cloud is the exception, and it says so above: share links are normal HTTPS links, not end to end encrypted.
Not yet. This build is iPhone only, on iOS 26 or later. No Apple Watch app and no Live Activity either.
Post it on The Trench and tag it iOS, or say so in Discord. Both come straight to Jordy, and the board tells you when your report has been built.

Put your Mac in your pocket.

Free while it is in beta.

Join the TestFlight beta

Needs an iPhone on iOS 26 or later, and Droppy on your Mac.