Groups the files on your Desktop by what arrived together, and puts every screenshot on a ledge under the menu bar.
macOS 14+ · Apple silicon & Intel
No screenshots yet. Take one with ⌘⇧4.
Before and after
Drag the line to compare. Same files in the same place; Desklot just draws them grouped by what arrived together.
Files land on your Desktop all day: a client's contract, a few photos, last month's leftovers.
Desklot notices which files came in together and gives each batch its own glass box.
Name a box once and it keeps the name. Quit the app and your Desktop is exactly as it was.
Features
Hover a box for search and the … menu: rename, recolor, merge or trash it.
A box that collects files by kind or by a word in their name.
New smart box
Collect files that are
or have this word in the name
Everything new waits in one box, split by arrival.
Nothing new. Everything has a box.
Folders get a tall box on the left or right, or stay loose.
Step-by-step guideKeep Documents or a project at hand; the folder stays where it is.
Show any folder live; files untouched for a month gather in Forgotten.
Nothing forgotten.
Pick files on the Desktop or inside a box, then drag them anywhere.
⌃⌥P brings your boxes over every window until you press Esc.
Each screenshot lands on a ledge under the menu bar and on the clipboard.
No screenshots yet. Take one with ⌘⇧4.
Screenshots fly up to it; open it from the notch or with ⌃⌥S.
No screenshots yet. Take one with ⌘⇧4.
A screenshot, and three ways to open the ledge.
No keys: rest on a screenshot and it opens big, over a softly blurred Desktop. ← → to browse.
Select a line and press ⌘C, or copy all of it. Read with Live Text on your Mac, offline.
· Select text and copy it with ⌘C · ← → to browse · Esc to closeDrag the edges or draw a new box · ↩ to crop · Esc to cancel · ⌘Z undoes it afterwards
Included in Desklot
Everyday file jobs without a website or an upload: convert images, remove the location or the background, merge PDFs, pull out text and make QR codes.
Open it from the ledge, Spotlight, Launchpad or the Dock. 6 tools
iPhone HEIC, PNG or WebP to JPG, PNG or HEIC. It can also shrink the size and weight.
A copy without the location and the camera details (model, date, software), to share photos safely.
Keeps the main subject on a transparent background, as a PNG.
Merge PDFs and images into a single PDF, or make each PDF lighter.
The text of images and PDFs, scanned ones too, ready to copy.
A link or any text, with your colors and logo. It checks that it scans; save it as PNG or SVG.
Right-click images or PDFs › Services: Desklot does it right there and shows you the result in Finder.
Any image or PDF opens in Desklot Tools, which asks what to do with it.
iPhone HEIC, PNG or WebP to JPG, PNG or HEIC. It can also shrink the size and weight.
Which format do you want them in?
A copy without the location and the camera details (model, date, software), to share photos safely.
Keeps the main subject on a transparent background, as a PNG.
Merge PDFs and images into a single PDF, or make each PDF lighter.
What should we do with them?
The text of images and PDFs, scanned ones too, ready to copy.
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A link or any text, with your colors and logo. It checks that it scans; save it as PNG or SVG.
or drop it on the QRScans fine · drag it anywhere
Drop files from Finder or the ledge. They're also in Finder's right-click › Services.
Converting, cleaning, reading and QR codes run with Apple's frameworks on your Mac. No file is ever uploaded.
All included, from day one of the trial.
How it works
What happens to your files, your privacy and your Mac.
How it works, in detailEverything stays in ~/Desktop. Desklot hides Finder's icons while it runs and draws its own. Files only move when you ask.
No analytics and no account. It only goes online to check your license, look for updates and, if it crashes, send an anonymous report you can turn off.
Copy the Text, QR codes and every Desklot Tool run on your Mac with Apple's frameworks. No file is ever uploaded.
Trash, archive, send and cleanup all come with Undo. Quit, and your Desktop looks exactly as before.
14 days with everything. No account, no card.
Everything included
Because you can try it first, all sales are final. If Desklot doesn't work as described, we'll fix it or refund you. Refund policy
The checkout page confirms the final price and currency for your country, taxes included.
No. It hides Finder's icons and draws your files in boxes. Quit it and your Desktop is just as it was.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon or Intel. Signed and notarized by Apple.
No. One payment of US$30 per Mac, after a 14-day free trial. Updates are free and install from inside the app.
Desklot pauses and Finder's icons come back as before. Your files are never touched.
No. No analytics and no account. If it crashes, it sends an anonymous crash report, with no files or names; you can turn it off in Settings.
The 14-day trial is there so you know it works for you, so we don't refund a change of mind. If something doesn't work as described, we fix it, and if we can't, we refund you. Your legal rights always apply.