FlowShelf — Free Mac Shelf, Clipboard Manager & Screenshot OCR

Download for macOS

Built for focus. Designed for Mac.<br>The temporary workspace your Mac deserves.

A free menu-bar app that auto-captures your clipboard, summons a shelf at your cursor, turns screenshots into text, and previews your windows — without the clutter.

Download for macOS macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel

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Notarized by Apple

100% on-device

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One app. Everything you juggle all day.

The shelf is just the start — FlowShelf folds a whole stack of Mac utilities into one lightweight, private menu-bar app.

The Shelf<br>Everything you copy, in one place

Copies, screenshots, files, and links all land on a self-cleaning shelf. Search it, pin what matters, and it clears itself after 24 hours so it never becomes clutter.

Floating shelf<br>A shelf that comes to your cursor

A glass shelf appears wherever you're working. Drop files in, carry them between apps, and drag them out at the destination — no window-juggling.

Shake to summon<br>Summon it with a quick shake

Give your mouse a little shake and the shelf pops up right where you are — no hotkey to remember, no menu to hunt for.

Move things across apps<br>Carry things between apps

Park files, text, and images on the floating shelf, switch apps, then drag or paste them out exactly where you need them.

Notch shelf<br>Your notch, finally useful

A Dynamic-Island-style shelf lives right in your MacBook notch — and on external monitors too. Swipe down to open, drop files in, click a tile to copy.

Window snapping<br>Snap windows with a keystroke

Hold ⌃⌥ and tap an arrow to snap the focused window to halves, quarters, or fullscreen. The one Mac feature you'd usually pay for — built in.

Peek<br>Preview windows without clicking

Hover a Dock icon for live thumbnails of its windows. See what's open and jump straight to the exact window you want.

Glance, then switch<br>See every window at a glance

Hold the key and your windows fan out as live previews. Pick the one you want and switch to it instantly — no fumbling through ⌘-Tab.

Snippets<br>Reusable text, one click away

Save signatures, addresses, and canned replies once. Paste them anytime from the dashboard or straight from the menu-bar menu.

Capture & annotate<br>A full screenshot toolkit, built in

Grab a region or a window, then mark it up with arrows, shapes, a real highlighter, numbered steps, and text. Blur, pixelate, or black out anything sensitive. Drop a spotlight, add a magnifier callout, measure in pixels with the ruler, or wrap the shot in a gradient backdrop. Pin it on top of everything, scan a QR code, or stitch a before/after — then copy, save, or drop it on your shelf.

On-device AI<br>Private AI that never leaves your Mac

Summarize, rewrite, translate, and smart-search your shelf — powered by Apple's on-device models. No accounts, no cloud, no cost, and it runs only when you ask.

App cleaner<br>Uninstall apps completely

Drag an app in and FlowShelf finds every leftover — caches, preferences, support files — and moves them to the Trash. It even tells you what it couldn't remove.

One app, instead of five.

FlowShelf does what you actually used these popular Mac apps for — in one free, private menu-bar app.

What you’d reach forTypical priceFlowShelf

Paste / Maccy clipboard & shelf$29.99/yr✓ Included<br>Magnet window snapping$4.99✓ Included<br>AltTab window switcherFree✓ Included<br>CleanShot X screenshots & annotate$29✓ Included<br>AppCleaner uninstallerFree✓ Included<br>… plus snippets, a notch shelf & on-device AI$60+/yr valueFree

Easy installation.

Drag, drop, and you're good to go.

FlowShelf

Applications

1Open the branded installer Double-click the .dmg file.

2Drag to Applications Install FlowShelf like any native Mac app.

3Launch & Go FlowShelf is ready. No setup. No signup.

FlowShelf 1.4.0 is Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple. Its polished drag-to-install window opens normally on macOS.

Privacy First

Your data stays on your Mac.

Native Performance

Built with Swift, ~7 MB, light on memory.

Apple Silicon + Intel

All modern Macs.

No Subscription

One-time, yours forever.

Built in the open.

FlowShelf's source is public. Read every line, verify the privacy claims for yourself, and open a pull request — no black boxes, no hidden network calls.

View source on GitHub

Contributing guide

Made by one person, not a corporation.

Hi, I'm Mahin Kadery — a solo developer. I built FlowShelf because I was tired of running five separate apps (and paying five subscriptions) for the little things a Mac should just do. No investors, no growth team, no data collection — just an app I use every day and keep improving. If something breaks, the person reading your bug report is the person who wrote the code.

More of my work → toolfoliohub.com<br>GitHub<br>☕ Buy me a coffee

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