100% Local
No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Your files never leave your Mac — ShelfFish works entirely offline and collects nothing.
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Supercharged
The temporary shelf for your files. Park anything mid-drag, then grab it wherever you land.
Best experienced on a Mac
The drag-and-drop demo needs a pointer. Send this link to your Mac and pick it up there.
macOS exclusive · requires macOS 26+
Quick Drop
Shake & Drop!
Grab a file and can't find the shelf? Just shake your cursor — and a cluster of glass bubbles blooms under your pointer. Let go over it, and it's shelved.
No hot corners, no menu-bar hunting — the shelf comes to you. Hold over the bubble for two seconds and it pins to your desktop, floating there until you drag the file out.
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Everything else
Small app. Deep bench.
Quick Preview
Hover over a file on the shelf and tap Space to preview it — then arrow through the whole shelf without opening a single app. Just like Finder but better.
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Liquid Glass UI
A translucent shelf that melts into your desktop and refracts what's behind it.
Hide on Screen Share
Vanishes the moment you present. Keep your clutter private.
Global Hotkey
Summon the shelf from any app with a keystroke you choose.
Pin to Shelf
Pin a file to keep it around. Drag it out as often as you like — it stays until you unpin it.
File Grouping
Stack related files, then drag the whole set out at once.
Fully customizable
Dock the shelf to any edge, resize it, nudge its spacing, and scale the whole interface to taste.
Auto-add Screenshots
Every screenshot lands on the shelf automatically — then clears itself the moment you drag it out. Less clutter, nothing left behind.
Metadata Stripping
Optionally scrub EXIF, GPS and author tags off anything you drag out — so a photo you share doesn't ship your location with it.
Original file untouched
Works with Shortcuts
ShelfFish exposes itself to the macOS Shortcuts app, so you can wire the shelf into automations of your own — add files, pull them back out, clear it on a schedule.
Give your files
a place to land.
Free to use. A one-time optional pro purchase if you love it. No subscription, ever.
Download on the Mac App Store