Summoned at your cursor
Press your hotkey and the palette opens exactly where you're working — never a window to find, never an app to leave.
Now in beta · macOS 14+
Your files, summoned at your cursor.
Press one hotkey, anywhere. A quiet glass palette of your recent files appears right where you're pointing — drag them straight into anything.
Search files…
setupTests.js
Drop files here to keep them handy
A scripted preview — the real thing is faster than you can read this.
One hotkey. Your files everywhere. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Everything, a keystroke away.
Satchel is small on purpose — but there's a lot packed into that one quiet window.
Find it as you type
A few letters filters everything in view. Fuzzy, fast, forgiving.
Drag into anything
Drop a file straight into a browser, a chat, an email — any app that takes a file.
Stage a shelf
Park files you'll want again, then pull them out together as one bundle.
Act on the spot
Copy, AirDrop, Share, or convert — right from the palette. Images copy as real bitmaps.
Catch it mid-drag
Start dragging anything and a catch zone appears under your cursor. Let go to stash it.
Make it yours
Six accents, light or dark. Satchel quietly wears your Mac's look.
Keyboard-first · Quick Look on Space · Universal binary · Nothing ever leaves your Mac.
Craft
Software that's quiet
and actually useful.
Satchel is built on a single idea borrowed from its own interface: Liquid Glass is mostly the absence of chrome, not the presence of more of it. One hotkey. One window. No dock icon, no notifications, no account. It appears when you need it and disappears the moment you don't.
Tint it to match your Mac. Six accents, light or dark.
Good questions.
What do I need to run it?
macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Satchel is a universal binary — it runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, and lives entirely in your menu bar.
Where do my files go?
Nowhere. Satchel reads your folders locally to show recents and never uploads, syncs, or phones home. There's no account and no cloud. Everything stays on your Mac.
Why does it ask for folder access?
So it can show files from Desktop, Documents, and Downloads. macOS asks you to grant each folder once. You can add, remove, or change locations anytime in Settings.
Which apps does it work with?
If an app accepts a dragged file, it works with Satchel — browsers, chat apps, mail clients, editors, and design tools. Images can also be copied as real bitmaps so they paste cleanly into places like Figma, Slack, and Notes.
How much does it cost?
Satchel is free while it's in beta. Pricing for the 1.0 release will be announced before launch — early users will be looked after.
Bring Satchel to your menu bar.
A quiet little utility for the files you reach for all day. Free during beta.