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@Manan-Santoki Manan-Santoki released this 21 Oct 05:32
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v0.9.0
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The first public release of OpenShelf: a free, open-source menu-bar utility for working with files mid-drag. Start dragging any file, tap a key, and drop it on a wedge.

Install

  1. Download OpenShelf-0.9.0.dmg below, open it and drag OpenShelf onto Applications.
  2. Open OpenShelf from Applications. It lives in the menu bar (the wheel icon), and a short guide appears on first launch.
  3. OpenShelf isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS asks once:
    • macOS 15 and later: click Done, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway.
    • macOS 14: right-click the app → Open → Open.
    • Or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/OpenShelf.app

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Universal: Apple silicon and Intel.

What's inside

⇧ Convert wheel: images, PDFs, documents, audio, video, subtitles and archives into the formats that fit them: JPG, PNG, HEIC, AVIF, WEBP, TIFF, BMP, PDF, DOCX, TXT, RTF, HTML, MP4, MOV, M4A, MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, GIF, SRT, VTT and ZIP, plus unzipping ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z and RAR. Results are saved next to the original and never overwrite anything. A progress card by the pointer lets you cancel.

⇧⌥ Tools wheel:

  • Images: Compress, Metadata, Edit, Annotate, Add Background, Crop, Redact, Read QR
  • PDFs: Combine (PDFs and images), Pages (reorder, rotate, delete), Split, Compress, Metadata
  • Video: Trim, Speed, Crop, Compress, Mute. Audio: Trim, Speed

⌃ Actions wheel: put files on a floating Shelf, Add to Shelf, AirDrop, Copy, Move, Copy Path, Terminal.

Shelves: floating windows that hold files for later. Stack preview, grid and list views, multi-select, drag out to any app, Quick Look, and docking to the screen edge.

Works system-wide with no Accessibility permission, no network access and no telemetry. MP3, GIF and WebP output need brew install ffmpeg webp; those wedges are hidden otherwise.

Known limitations

  • Not notarized yet (see Install step 3).
  • The editor windows are new; please report anything that feels off in Issues.

See the README for the full guide.

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