DropMe

A small, private drop shelf for macOS, inspired by Dropover. No network, no telemetry, no account.

What it does

• Hold Shift while dragging files to open a floating shelf under the pointer. If nothing is dropped on it, it goes away again.
• Drop files on it (from several places, also attachments from Mail), then drag them all out again later. If they get moved along the way, the shelf empties itself.
• Action menu (chevron at the top right): Open With, Show in Finder, Quick Look, Share (AirDrop, Mail, Messages, Notes, More), Add from Clipboard, Copy, Copy to, Move to, quick destinations, Clear Shelf.
• Quick destinations: folders with a name of your choice that sit directly in the menu and copy there. Managed via “Einstellungen …” in the action menu.
• Pill at the bottom: name or item count; a click lists the individual files (open, reveal, remove).
• Keyboard: Space for Quick Look, Esc or ⌘W to close, ⌘C to copy, ⌘V to paste, double-click to open.
• Menu bar: New Shelf, Close All, Launch at Login, Hide Menu Bar Icon (open DropMe again from the Finder to bring it back).
• open -a DropMe <files> puts files straight onto a new shelf.
• Liquid Glass on macOS 26 and later, subtle animations (turned off with “Reduce motion”), light and dark mode.

The user interface is in German for now.

Privacy

DropMe contains no networking code. You can check that on the binary:

otool -L /Applications/DropMe.app/Contents/MacOS/DropMe        # no CFNetwork, no Network.framework
nm -u /Applications/DropMe.app/Contents/MacOS/DropMe | grep -i urlsession   # empty

To detect a drag, DropMe only looks at the types on the drag pasteboard, never at its contents. Sharing goes through macOS services (AirDrop, Mail …); DropMe itself sends nothing.

Installation

With Homebrew:

brew tap wiredframe/tap
brew trust --cask wiredframe/tap/dropme
brew install --cask wiredframe/tap/dropme

Or by hand: download DropMe-<version>.zip from Releases, unzip it and move DropMe.app to /Applications.

Requires a Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later.

The app is signed with a Developer ID but not notarized yet, so macOS blocks the first launch (the Homebrew cask takes care of that). Either click “Open Anyway” under System Settings › Privacy & Security, or run once in Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/DropMe.app

Building

./build.sh            # builds build/DropMe.app (Apple Silicon, signed with a Developer ID if available, otherwise ad hoc)
./build.sh --install  # also copies it to ~/Applications and launches it
./build.sh --zip      # also creates build/DropMe-<version>.zip, notarized if a notarytool profile “notary” exists

Requirements: a Mac with Apple Silicon, Xcode or Swift 5.10+, macOS 14+.

License

MIT