Drop nearly anything
Files, folders, Photos exports, Safari images, links, and text all land in the same shelf.
free · open source · native · dependable · macos
A file shelf
in your notch.
Drop things now. Drag them somewhere else when you are ready. Free, open source, and it never touches your originals.
- Free
- Open source · MIT
- No account, no permissions to grant
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copy copy
copy copy the notch earns its keep
A temporary shelf that moves at your speed.
Flick something up, keep working, then carry it where it belongs. The original never moves.
install standalone with homebrew
$ brew install --cask nebelhaus/tap/perch Just perch
The whole rice This adds only Perch.app to your Mac. No Nix, Dock icon, Accessibility, Input Monitoring, or Screen Recording permission.
Perch has a room in nebelhaus too. Enable nebelhaus.perch when you want the shelf installed with the rest of the rice.
Meet nebelhaus →a temporary stop between places
Drop. Hold. Carry on.
Perch stays out of the way until something needs somewhere to wait.
Take one or take the lot
Drag a single tile out, or grab the stack and carry the lot at once. Whatever a destination accepts leaves the shelf; a refused drop springs back.
Your originals stay yours
Perch stages private copies. It never moves, renames, edits, or deletes the things you dropped in.
drag, swipe, or use the arrows
Temporary should still be dependable.
Every accepted item finishes copying into Perch's private shelf before it appears. Relaunching recovers the shelf, and dragging out advertises copy only.