DragWheel 1.2.0

Drag a file, tap a key, drop it on the wheel. Offline file converter and toolbox for Windows.

Install: download DragWheel-Setup-1.2.0.exe below and run it (asks for admin, installs to C:\Program Files\DragWheel).
Windows SmartScreen may warn because the installer is not code-signed yet — choose More info → Run anyway.

Portable: DragWheel-portable.zip — unzip anywhere and run DragWheel.exe.

Requires Windows 10 (1809+) or 11, 64-bit.

What's new in 1.2.0

The biggest update so far.

The wheel

• Animations when the wheel opens and closes: Bloom (the middle pops, then the slices open one by one like a flower), Circle, Fade, Spin or none
• Shake the mouse while dragging to open the wheel; wheel keys can be set to None for shake only
• Pressing the same key again closes the wheel (also Ctrl + Alt + Space)
• The wheel always stays fully on screen, even at the edges and corners
• Quick preview: tap Space while dragging to see the picture, PDF page, video frame or text you're holding
• Click sounds like an iPod: a tick when moving between slices and a press when choosing one, with their own volume
• Roomier wheels when there are many slices

Make it yours

• Choose slices: hide slices and drag them into your order for every wheel and file type, with a live preview of the wheel
• Presets (for example WebP · quality 80 · max 1920 px) and chains (for example resize → WebP → ZIP) as one slice
• Your own slices: add commands to the Actions wheel in a simple settings file
• Where results go: next to the original, in a folder, replacing the original (asks first, originals to the Recycle Bin) or on the clipboard
• Export and import your settings to move them to another PC

PDF

• Sign with a drawn or dropped signature, on this page, every page, a range or the pages you click
• Arrange pages by dragging; drop more PDFs or pictures to add pages
• Watermark with a live preview, direction, size, strength and colour; page numbers (Arabic numerals too)
• Grayscale, unlock, word count, PDF to CBZ

Images, video and audio

• Images: resize presets, remove background (AI, offline, downloaded once), copy text (Windows OCR), upscale 2×, sharpen, watermark, blur faces, stitch, make GIF
• Video: compress to a target size, crops for Reels/TikTok/Stories centred on faces, burn or add subtitles, extract subtitles, make GIF, progress percentage on long jobs
• Audio: ringtone maker with a waveform trimmer (M4R/MP3), speech to text in many languages including Arabic (AI, offline)

Files and archives

• Comic books: CBR, CBZ, CB7, CBT to PDF or CBZ, extract pages, make a CBZ from pictures
• Batch rename (numbers, dates, Arabic or Western numerals), split big files into parts and join them, password-protected ZIP and 7Z
• SHA-256 checksum with compare, secure shred, fonts (convert and install), fix garbled Arabic text

Float, the mini player

• Plays video and music with fading controls, volume, audio tracks and subtitles; previous/next file; album covers
• Play links from YouTube and about 1,800 sites, live streams included, with a quality menu, Refresh and a loading circle
• Repeat this one or loop the whole folder (R key)
• Saved links: every link you play is remembered (right-click a float)
• Open Float from the desktop right-click menu: an empty float to drop a file or paste a link into
• Media keys control the float, with a big on-screen sign for play, pause, next, previous and the volume
• Always on top (optional), floats that reopen with Windows and after updates, Ctrl + double-click or Ctrl + Enter on a file opens it in Float

Send to phone

• Quick Share, Bluetooth, a temporary internet link with a QR code (5 minutes to 72 hours) or the same Wi-Fi
• The QR code of a live link can be shown again from the tray until it runs out
• Programs are sent inside a ZIP, because file services refuse them

Everyday

• Recent results in the tray menu, Undo on the Done notification
• A queue for many jobs (or all at the same time), with a "12 of 40 done" counter; one bad file doesn't stop a batch
• Watch folders: files that land in a folder are converted by themselves
• Command line: dragwheel convert *.heic --to jpg, and a button in Settings to open it
• Welcome tour with an animation (can show at every start or never)
• Notifications fade like Windows' own and come back when you hover; Windows notification sounds when jobs finish or fail
• A small spinning circle next to the pointer while DragWheel works
• High-contrast theme, screen-reader names for the wheel and notifications
• Windows 11: switch for the full right-click menu (no "Show more options")
• Left-click the tray icon opens Settings; Settings scrolls on small screens

Install, trust and privacy

• Smaller installer (97 MB instead of 127 MB) and optional downloads to tick during setup (AI models, yt-dlp)
• Setup detects the same version and offers to reinstall or uninstall; uninstalling can keep or remove your settings and downloads
• Optional crash reports: off by default, you see the whole report before anything is sent
• Updated privacy policy listing every connection and when it happens
• Ready for code signing (SignPath) and the Microsoft Store

Fixes

• Smoother online video and live streams (download-ahead cache, live relay with quick recovery, switching away from refused streams)
• No more Windows error sound with every notification
• Floats come to the front when you open them; reopened floats show instantly after an update