Chute
Drag a file, give it a shake, press one key
Details
- External ID
- 1262156
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Chute
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Chute is a drop tray for your Mac. Shake a file while you drag it and Chute appears beside the pointer. Drop it and press one key: T trash, Z zip, R resize, C convert, N rename, A AirDrop, E email, I install a DMG, O send it to your other Mac, 1 to 9 file it into your folders. Results stay in the tray so keys chain, a Control tap builds a queue, and ⌘Z takes back trashes, moves, zips and resizes. Native, notarized, no account.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- file action utility for desktop users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a system-level macOS tray that detects mouse shake gestures while dragging global file promises requires specialized macOS event tap and Cocoa APIs.
What it would actually take: The app requires native Swift/Objective-C targeting AppKit, using low-level CGEvent taps to monitor global cursor velocity during drag-and-drop operations, and integrating with NSDraggingDestination. It needs robust handling of Finder file operations, shell scripting for DMG mounts/resizing, and inter-process communication that standard vibe coding frequently struggles with due to macOS sandbox and accessibility permission quirks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 202 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 203 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.
- DropEdge · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Cloveworks · ph · 2026-09-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ShakeNotes for Mac · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Declutr · ph · 2026-09-29 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ClipTen · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- NotchHold · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Tether · ph · 2026-08-31 · 245 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Broom · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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- No other launches for this product.
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