The gap DropK fills
Most work on a Mac has a short middle step: you have found the file, copied the sentence, or taken the screenshot, but you are not ready to use it yet. The system clipboard holds exactly one item, so each new copy silently erases the last. Clipboard history apps solve that by remembering everything forever — which is a different problem.
DropK sits in the menu bar and opens a small shelf. Anything you drop or copy onto it stays visible: files, folders, links, images, screenshots, and text snippets, mixed together. When the job is done, you drag the items out and the shelf goes back to being empty.
The core loop: drop in, work, move on
- Drop in. Drag files or folders onto the shelf, or turn on clipboard tracking and copy things as you find them.
- Work. Switch apps, windows, and Spaces freely. The shelf keeps the set together and readable.
- Move on. Drag items into a chat, an upload form, a folder, or a document. Clear the shelf when the task ends.
The two modes
Drop box mode is the shelf itself — a landing area for files and mixed content. Text mode adds an editable text field, so a copied sentence can be trimmed or fixed before it gets pasted anywhere. Clipboard tracking is a toggle: turn it on for a task, off when you are done, so the shelf only sees what you meant to keep.
What DropK is not
It is not a clipboard history archive, a file manager, or a sync service. It keeps nothing you did not put there and does not try to remember your whole day. If you want the long memory of a history app, the two coexist fine — see DropK vs clipboard managers for how they divide the work.
Where to go next
If the idea makes sense, the DropK overview shows the shelf up close, and tips and tricks covers the habits that make it stick. DropK is free on the Mac App Store and needs macOS 13 or later.
