What’s new in Shelfy

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Shelfy 0.3.0 · November 8, 2026

• Shake to Shelf. Shake the pointer while you drag a file, and a shelf appears right under it. Handy when the Dock is far away or hidden. You can turn it off in Settings.
• Clipboard history, or any folder. The other side of the Dock can now show what you’ve copied lately, or the newest files in any folder you choose, ten or twenty at a time. Clipboard history is off unless you choose it, lives in memory, and skips passwords that password managers mark as private.
• Notes, Tidy My Desktop and Import from iPhone. New Note… puts a note on the shelf. Tidy My Desktop moves everything on your Desktop into a dated folder in Documents, and Undo puts it all back. Import from iPhone takes a photo or scans a document with your iPhone, straight onto the shelf.
• More in every right-click menu. Open With, Copy Path, Rename…, AirDrop, Markup in Preview, and Remove After (an hour, a day or a week). New actions: Resize images, Merge PDFs, Compress Video, Make GIF and Translate Text.
• Drag out as a zip, search inside pictures. Hold ⌥ while dragging several files out, and they arrive as one zip. The panel’s search now finds the words inside screenshots and images.
• Your shelf, your way. Put the shelf on the other side of the Dock, use smaller items, hide names, turn on frosted glass, or keep the shelves out when the Dock hides.
• Fixed. Opening Shelfy twice no longer runs two copies. Activating again on the same Mac no longer uses up one of your 3 Macs. When the shelves can’t show, Shelfy says why, and with no room beside the Dock the shelf becomes a small tab you can click or drop on.

Shelfy 0.2.2 · November 1, 2026

• Sold through Gumroad now. New licenses come from Gumroad. Licenses bought earlier keep working, and nothing changes for you.

Shelfy 0.2.1 · October 25, 2026

• Clearer glass. The shelves beside the Dock are now glass like the Dock itself: they take on your wallpaper’s colors and blur whatever is behind them, instead of looking like a solid grey bar.
• Made for macOS Tahoe. On macOS 26, the shelves match your wallpaper the way the system’s own glass does: dark glass with white names over a dark wallpaper, light glass over a light one.
• Reduce Transparency. With Reduce Transparency turned on in System Settings › Accessibility, the shelves stay solid, just like the Dock.

Shelfy 0.2.0 · October 23, 2026

• Delete it from your Desktop, it stays on the shelf. Files on the shelf keep working even after you delete the original. Hold ⌘ as you drop to move a file onto the shelf in one go. Either one goes to the Trash when it leaves the shelf.
• Paste your newest screenshot anywhere. Press ⌃⌥V in Messages, Slack, Mail or any document. Your clipboard is left as it was.
• Remove Background. Right-click a photo on the shelf for a clean cut-out, made on your Mac.
• Improved. The shelves never cover full-screen apps, like videos, even without Accessibility access. Shelfy tells you when allowing Accessibility would make the shelves fit your Dock exactly, warns you if another app already uses one of its shortcuts, and Copy Support Info in Settings › Help makes getting help quick (it never includes your files).

Shelfy 0.1.1 · October 18, 2026

• Scroll with a mouse wheel. The shelves beside the Dock now scroll with any mouse wheel, not just a trackpad.
• Peeking over full-screen apps. When the Dock tucks itself away (over a full-screen app, or with auto-hide), the panel you peeked open now stays right where it is until you move away.

Shelfy 0.1.0 · October 18, 2026

• The first Shelfy. A glass shelf beside the Dock for the files you’re working with, your ten newest screenshots and downloads on the other side, ⇧⌘Space to search everything, and one-click Compress, Convert, Remove Hidden Info, Copy Text and Zip.