Shelfinder
A floating shelf for drag-and-drop files on macOS
104 followers
A floating shelf for drag-and-drop files on macOS
104 followers
Shelfinder app is a floating shelf for macOS that lets you collect, pin, and move files instantly. Looks native. Works instantly.
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@vouchy Thank you so much, Van! 🙌
Yes, the idea came exactly from that daily frustration of dealing with multiple Finder windows while moving photos and other files between different folders. I wanted something lightweight that could stay attached to Finder and make drag-and-drop feel instant.
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@nair0 Thank you, Ciprian! Really appreciate it.
The current limit is up to 50 files, but in the next version we’ll look into allowing unlimited items. And yes, Shelfinder saves your items and restores everything after a restart.
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Thanks, @nathan_darma! Really glad you liked it 🙌
Liquid Glass wasn’t too hard once I structured it properly. I ended up building a small material system so the app could use the new Liquid Glass effect on macOS 26, but still fall back gracefully on older versions.
Shelfinder checks the OS version at runtime and only exposes the Liquid Glass option when supported. The actual effect is wrapped in a container that uses Apple’s new Liquid Glass materials behind #available(macOS 26, *) guards. On earlier macOS versions, the same UI falls back to an ultra-thin material to keep everything readable and consistent.
So the key was:
• detect OS capabilities
• expose Liquid Glass only when available
• wrap the effect in a clean abstraction
• provide a solid visual fallback for macOS 14–25
If you're polishing your photo culling app’s UI, Liquid Glass can look amazing. Maybe with a small abstraction layer, it stays fully backward-compatible.
Love it! By the end of the day..I have screenshots, pdf's, images I collect ...and then it's a pain in the neck to add everything into different folders then drag/drop into files. This seems like a great solution....downloading it now! Thank you!
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@ladysoleil33 Thank you so much! I totally relate. Screenshots, PDFs, and random images pile up fast, and moving them into folders can be such a pain. I’m really glad Shelfinder helps make the flow easier.
We’ve just released version 1.0.2 as well, which improves the experience even further. Hope you enjoy it!