Your MacBook's notch, turned into a shelf. Drop files, screenshots, links — even windows. Grab them back whenever.
- 🖐 Marquee multi-select — drag a box across the shelf to grab several items at once, then copy, delete, or drag the whole selection out together.
- 🔀 Drag to reorder — drop any card back onto the shelf to move it where you want; an insertion line shows exactly where it lands.
- 🚫 No more duplicates — dropping something that is already on your shelf moves it instead of adding a second copy.
- ⚙️ Sidebar toggles in Settings — show or hide each tool module; one centers, two or three stack.
Your desktop is not a storage system. Ledge lives in the notch — hover, drop, done. Everything stays on your Mac, exactly where you left it, until you need it again.
- 📥 Drop anything — files, images, links, text. Drag them in, or just press
⌘V. - ✨ Beautify screenshots — drop a screenshot onto the Beautify zone and get a share-ready image: aurora mesh gradient, rounded corners, soft shadow. 8 curated styles, result lands on your shelf and clipboard.
- 🪟 Stash windows — park any app window into the island with a shortcut, jump straight back to it later. Perfect for background AI agents and chat windows.
- 🗂 Batch stacking — drop several items at once and they stack into one tidy pile. Tap to fan them out, drag one out, or move the whole stack.
- 📤 AirDrop zone — drag any item onto the AirDrop zone and it sends. No Finder, no Share menu.
- 📋 Clipboard capture — screenshots and copied text can land on the shelf automatically (optional, off by default for text).
- 🎙 Meeting recording — choose a save folder the first time, then mix Mac system audio and your microphone into one local AAC
.m4a. Ledge records audio only, never screen frames or video. - 📌 Permanent pinning — pinned items never expire and survive Clear. Unpin them before using the card X,
⌘⌫, or a bulk delete. - ⚡️ Your shortcuts — every hotkey is remappable in Settings.
- 🖥 Notch or no notch — melts into the notch on notched MacBooks; becomes a slim Top Handle on notchless Macs, Intel included. One universal build.
- 🔒 Local core, transparent updates — shelf content and recordings stay on your Mac. There is no account, cloud sync, or in-app usage telemetry; Sparkle checks a GitHub Pages feed and retrieves updates from GitHub Releases.
| Ledge | NotchNook | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free public beta (paid 1.0 planned) | $25 one-time or $3/month |
| File & link shelf in the notch | ✅ With batch stacking | ✅ |
| Park whole windows | ✅ With snapshot thumbnails | ❌ |
| Drag text out into any input field | ✅ Native drag, works in web & Electron apps | ❌ |
| Clipboard capture (images / text) | ✅ Optional, password managers hard-blocked | ❌ |
| One click back to the original browser tab | ✅ | ❌ |
| Media controls / Now Playing | 🚧 Planned | ✅ |
| Widgets (calendar, mirror, shortcuts) | 🚧 Planned | ✅ |
| Works on Macs without a notch | ✅ Slim opaque-black Top Handle | ✅ |
| Local-only, zero account | ✅ Core makes no network calls | ✅ |
Deeper breakdowns: Ledge vs NotchNook · Ledge vs Yoink
System requirements: macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon or Intel (one universal build)
- Download
Ledge.dmgfrom the latest release. - Open the DMG and drag Ledge into
/Applications.
Important
Ledge is not notarized yet, so macOS warns that it comes from an unidentified developer on first launch. This is expected and only needs bypassing once:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Ledge.appOr: try opening the app → dismiss the warning → System Settings → Privacy & Security → scroll down → Open Anyway.
Tip
- For window stashing, grant Accessibility access when prompted (System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility).
- The first meeting recording asks for a save folder plus Screen & System Audio Recording and Microphone permissions. Audio only — no screen video.
Ledge uses Sparkle for automatic update checks. Sparkle reads the signed appcast on GitHub Pages and retrieves approved releases from GitHub; Ledge does not send app-usage telemetry.
- Launch Ledge — the notch is now alive.
- Hover over the notch to open the shelf.
- Drop files, images, links or text onto it — or press
⌘Vwhile it's open to paste from the clipboard. - Hover an item to preview, double-click to open, right-click for Copy / AirDrop / Delete.
- Drag a box across empty shelf space to marquee-select several items, then copy, delete, or drag the whole pile out at once.
- Drag any card along the shelf to reorder it — an accent line marks the landing spot. Dragging a selected card moves the whole selection.
- Drag items out to wherever you need them — Finder, a chat box, a browser.
- Pin anything you need to keep. Pinned items survive expiry and Clear; unpin before deleting.
- Use Record to choose a folder on first use and start an audio-only meeting recording; stop it to save the local
.m4aonto the shelf.
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Show / hide the island | ⌥ Space |
| Stash the front window | ⌃ ⌥ L |
| Jump back to a stashed window | ⌃ ⌥ ⇧ L |
| Paste clipboard into the island | ⌘ V (while open) |
| Delete hovered item | ⌘ ⌫ (while open; pinned items must be unpinned first) |
| Close the island | Esc |
All remappable in Settings (gear icon, top-left of the island). In Settings you can also toggle each sidebar tool module on or off.
- Smart screen demo recording — camera bubble + auto zoom edit (in active development)
- Media controls / Now Playing in the notch
- Widgets (calendar, mirror, shortcuts)
- More beautify presets & custom backgrounds
Does anything leave my Mac? Your shelf content, clipboard captures, and meeting recordings stay on your Mac. Ledge has no account system, cloud sync, or in-app usage telemetry. Sparkle does contact the signed appcast on GitHub Pages and GitHub Releases to check for and retrieve updates.
What does meeting recording capture?
Mac system audio and your microphone are mixed into one local AAC .m4a in the folder you choose on first use. The app registers audio output only, so it does not save screen frames or video. macOS asks for Screen & System Audio Recording and Microphone permissions.
Can Clear delete something important?
Not if you pin it. Pinned items never expire and Clear leaves them alone. The card X, ⌘⌫, batch deletion, and stack deletion also refuse to remove pinned content until you unpin it.
Why does window stashing need Accessibility access? macOS requires it to move and resize other apps' windows. Everything else in Ledge works without it.
Intel Mac? No notch? Same download. Ledge detects your screen and attaches a slim, opaque-black Top Handle to the top edge. It stays compact while idle and expands into the same solid-black shelf.
Where are my items stored?
In ~/Library/Application Support/Ledge. Files are referenced in place — Ledge never copies or uploads them.
- Sparkle — MIT-licensed update framework powering transparent updates.
- BozhengLong/meetrec — reference reviewed while designing the audio-recording pipeline.
- Category inspiration: boring.notch, NotchDrop, NotchNook — and Xnapper-style screenshot beautifying.
Found a bug? Have an idea? Open an issue — every report gets read.
中文简介
纳岛（Ledge）把 MacBook 的刘海变成一个本地收纳架：文件、截图、链接、窗口都能拖进去，随时取回。支持框选多选与整批拖出、拖拽排序（落点指示线）、已有素材防重复入库、批量堆叠、隔空投送专区、剪贴板捕获、会议录音与永久固定。固定素材会被"清空"和删除操作保护。核心内容留在本机，没有账号、云同步或应用内使用遥测；Sparkle 仅通过 GitHub Pages 更新源和 GitHub Releases 检查、获取更新。设置里可以单独显示或隐藏侧边栏的每个工具模块。没有刘海的 Mac（含 Intel）会显示贴顶的纯黑 Top Handle，同一安装包通用。
Website development · 官网开发
This repository also hosts the Ledge website (GitHub Pages).
npm install
npm run dev # local dev
npm run lint # pre-release check
npm run build # outputs dist/ for GitHub PagesBuilt with Vite, React, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS.