Shake the mouse mid-drag and a floating shelf appears next to the cursor. Drop the file, go find the window, then drag it out when you're ready.
A drag on macOS is a held breath: you can't switch spaces or scroll without losing what you picked up. Shakelf gives that drag somewhere to rest.
Start dragging anything, wiggle the mouse, and a shelf appears right at the cursor. No target to aim at, no hotkey mid-drag.
Drop the file and the drag is over. Switch spaces, open folders, take a call. The shelf floats above everything and waits.
Pull items out one at a time, or grab the header to take the whole stack. Emptied shelves close themselves.
Files, images from a browser, clipboard screenshots, text, links. Raw images become PNGs so they behave like real files.
One per task, one for later. Shake again for a new one, placed so it never lands on top of the last.
One click packs the files on a shelf into a single archive, back on the same shelf, ready to drag into an email.
Close a shelf and it joins the last ten, reopenable with one click, and they survive a restart.
Pick your language in Settings and the whole app switches on the spot, no restart.
No Accessibility prompt, no Screen Recording, no Full Disk Access. You'll never see a permission dialog.
No server, no account, no analytics, no network code at all. What you park stays on your Mac, the app is sandboxed, so it can only touch the files you hand it.
Swift, zero third-party dependencies, no SDK quietly phoning home.
Two ways to get it, both free: straight from the Mac App Store, or the notarized .dmg below, signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS opens it with a double-click, no warnings. Either way, it only ever touches the files you drop on it.
Both are the same app, both free. The Mac App Store version updates itself and is sandboxed by the store's rules; the .dmg is there if you'd rather not go through the store. Pick either.
No, shake only counts when you're actually dragging something. And you can turn shake off entirely in the menu; shelves still open with ⌃⌥N.
A shelf holds a reference to where the file already lives, parking never copies it, closing never deletes it. Shelves left open when you quit come back next launch.
No. Reading the mouse position needs no permission on macOS, and the shortcuts use an API that doesn't either.
Tabs only hold files. A shelf also takes an image from a web page, a chunk of text, a link, and holds them together across apps.
Today, nothing, it's free. If it's ever paid, it will be a one-time price with a proper trial, not a subscription.
macOS 14 Sonoma or newer, Apple silicon or Intel, a universal binary of about 1.2 MB.