DropEdge
A sleek screen-edge shelf for effortless drag & drop on Mac
Details
- External ID
- 1249395
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- DropEdge
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
DropEdge gives you an instant, uncluttered temporary shelf right at your screen's edge. Park files, gather snippets, and drag them anywhere smoothly without disrupting your workflow.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS notch and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- screen-edge drag and drop shelf for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No DropEdge is a native macOS utility that tracks drag-and-drop mouse screen-edge gestures across third-party apps, which requires specialized macOS system APIs, AppKit/Swift event taps, and delicate accessibility/window-level handling that AI assistants frequently hallucinate and struggle to debug.
What it would actually take: The app requires a native Swift/AppKit application utilizing `NSWindow` levels (floating/overlay panels), `NSEvent` global monitor or Core Graphics Event Taps (`CGEventTap`) to detect mouse drag gestures intersecting screen boundaries, and `NSDraggingDestination`/`NSPasteboard` protocols to accept, retain, and serve file promises (`NSFilePromiseProvider`). Building this reliably across multi-monitor setups and macOS permission sandboxes requires deep macOS systems engineering experience.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 262 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #151 of 263 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
- NotchHold · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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- LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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