alejandrobujan/tendedero

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Free and open source. For macOS 14 and later.
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Out of sight. Within reach.

Every screenshot you take hangs on a line just above your screen. Rest the pointer in the middle of the menu bar and it glides down. Move away and it's gone.

A gesture for everything.

Click	Copy the image.
Press and hold	Open it in Markup.
Double click	Open it in Preview.
Force click	Take a quick look.
Drag into an app	Send a copy. It stays on the line.
Drag into a folder	Keep it there. It leaves the line.
Drag to the Trash, or click the cross	Let it go.
⌘ Z with the pointer on the line	Hang back what you just let go.
Space with the pointer on a photo	Take a quick look.
⌫ with the pointer on a photo	Let it go, as its corner button does.
Right click, then Share	Send it with AirDrop, Messages, Mail and more. It stays on the line.
Right click, then Pin	Keep it: it hangs left of the knot on a space grey clip, and no new screenshot pushes it off.
Right click, then Hold	Take it off the line and keep it in front of you while you work.
In Finder, right click an image, then Hang on Tendedero	Hang any image on the line, pinned.
Rest the pointer in the middle of the menu bar	Bring the line down on that screen.
Click anything in the menu bar	Put it away.
⌃ ⌥ T	Show or hide the line. Change it under Shortcut in the menu bar.

Your Desktop. Finally clear.

Hand Tendedero your screenshots¹ and they skip the Desktop entirely. No floating thumbnail. No five-second wait. Each capture hangs the instant you take it, and only what you drag out is kept.

Screen recordings hang there too, with a play button over them. Press and hold one to trim it.

Same shortcuts. Same muscle memory. Just less mess.

Copied images too.

Take a screenshot with ⌃ held, or copy an image in Preview, and it hangs on the line like any other. Turn on Hang copied images in the menu bar and the shirt fills in while it is on. Only images: anything copied along with text or a file, and anything a password manager marks as private, is left alone.

Private by design.

No account. No network. No analytics. Tendedero runs entirely on your Mac, and your screenshots never leave it.

Tech Specs

Compatibility	macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple silicon and Intel. Designed for macOS 27.
Size	3.5 MB
Languages	English, Spanish, Galician, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Turkish, Azerbaijani, Hindi
Built with	Swift, AppKit and SwiftUI
Network access	None
Price	Free
License	MIT for the code. The name and icon are not included.

Install

Download the disk image from the latest release, open it and drag Tendedero to Applications. Or install it with Homebrew:

brew install tendedero

Tendedero is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other app.

Build from source

git clone [email protected]:alejandrobujan/tendedero.git
cd tendedero
scripts/build-app.sh
open build/Tendedero.app

Requires the Swift toolchain. Xcode is optional. With the Command Line Tools for macOS 27, the script falls back to the macOS 26 SDK they install alongside, because the new SDK needs a SwiftUI macro plugin only Xcode includes. Local builds are signed ad hoc, so macOS asks again for access to the Desktop after each rebuild.

Want to help? Read CONTRIBUTING.md first.

Inside the app

File	Role
AppDelegate.swift	Menu bar, shortcut, revealing and tucking away the line
LinePanel.swift	The transparent strip along the top of the screen
LineView.swift	The line and where each photo hangs
PeggedView.swift	One photo: glass frame, clip, swing and breeze
GrabArea.swift	Click, long press, drag and drop
ScreenshotWatcher.swift	Notices new screenshots
ClipboardWatcher.swift	Notices images copied to the clipboard
Inbox.swift	Takes over screenshot settings and puts them back
Markup.swift	Opens the system Markup editor and saves the result
Trim.swift	Trims a screen recording and saves the result
FullScreen.swift	Knows when to stay hidden
Line.swift	What is hanging, and what you can do with it
Held.swift	A photo held in front of you, off the line

Every image here, the icon included, is drawn in code by scripts/make-icon.swift and scripts/make-readme-art.swift. scripts/make-dmg.sh builds the disk image for releases.

Translations live in Sources/Tendedero/Resources, one .lproj folder per language. swift scripts/check-strings.swift checks that none is missing.

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_{1. On first launch, Tendedero offers to handle your screenshots. If you accept, it turns off the floating thumbnail and saves new screenshots to its own folder, two settings also found under Options in Cmd+Shift+5. Your previous settings are saved and restored when Tendedero quits or the option is turned off from the menu bar. Tendedero hides automatically while an app is in full screen.}

_{The code is MIT licensed. The Tendedero name and icon are not, so forks need their own. See LICENSE.
Designed and built by Alejandro Buján.}