Yoink simplifies and improves drag and drop between windows, apps, spaces and fullscreen apps, by providing a temporary "shelf" for your files and app-content.
It frees up your mouse, enabling you to navigate more comfortably to the destination of your files.
When you start dragging files in Finder or content from an application, Yoink fades in at the edge of your screen, allowing you to drag to it.
While Yoink is holding on to your files for you, you can more easily and comfortably navigate to the destination of your files, without having to keep the mouse button clicked the entire time.
Overview of Yoink's main features:
- A "shelf" at the edge of your screen for files and app-content you'd like to move or copy, which behaves like Finder (regarding moving and copying)
- Yoink follows you everywhere - windows, spaces and (fullscreen-) apps
- Icons are created using QuickLook, allowing easy identification
- Multiple files dragged to Yoink at once are condensed into a Stack, making it easy to drag them out together
- System Services, the Quick Action and Share extensions allow storing files in Yoink without having to use drag and drop
- Handoff to transfer files between all the Macs, iPads and iPhones you're using Yoink on
- Clipboard History, which lets you store previously copied content in Yoink, or copy again
- Highly customizable - you decide where, when and if Yoink appears
- "Share" to and from Yoink
- Build workflows with Yoink's Shortcuts integration
For further information and usage tips for getting the most out of Yoink, please visit its website.
Here's what customers say about Yoink:
"Essential. One of the few apps I use all the time." - Kraznoff, US App Store
"Simple, elegant, perfect. This is a fantastic app. It works flawlessly". - Benwiggy, UK App Store
"Handiest utility I ever purchased." - Nrgwise, US App Store
Here's what members of the press say about Yoink:
"Yoink is a terrific utility" - John Gruber, DaringFireball.net
"Yoink is a fantastic way to enhance drag'n'drop. Highly recommended." - Federico Viticci, MacStories.net
"Yoink is an awesome drag and drop utility for the Mac and is instrumental to me when working with full screen apps." - Jeff Benjamin, iDownloadBlog
"I absolutely love this little utility, it's one of the few I've come across that has had staying powers on my Macs." - James Dempsey, The Graphic Mac
Some features may require a more recent version of macOS, or the separately available Yoink app for iOS:
Handoff to/from iPad or iPhone requires separately available Yoink app for iOS
Quick Action and Continuity Camera requires macOS Mojave 10.14
If you have any feedback or questions, please do not hesitate to write me by mail at support@eternalstorms.at, or on twitter at @YoinkApp or @eternalstorms.
Thank you.
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still among the first apps I install on a new computer!
BayAreaDad
I am lost without it.Window management in OS X is always a bit of a trick, and it's difficult to drag and drop things when they're scattered among different windows on different Mission Control screens. Yoink fixes this issue easily and simply, by giving you someplace to set things down during your drag and drop operations. You can find the thing you want to grab, drop it in Yoink's shelf, and then click around to find a place to put it. (You can keep them there a while while you compose and collect, too)Dragging works in and out of almost all applications I've tried, too, and sometimes even better than you'd expect. If you need to upload a photo from Photos to Craigslist, for example, you cannot drag from the application to the browser. But if you drag to Yoink first it forces Photos to do an export, and then you can drag merrily into a browser-based upload button.
Has Totally Transformed My Workflow
Jacob Hantla
I could not imagine working on my Mac without Yoink. It makes working with files (and lots of other objects including images, pdf pages, powerpoint slides, and more) so much easier. Basically, I use the left side of my screen as a hotspot to call up the Yoink drawer. When I am in Finder I just drop the file I want into Yoink without having to worry about aligning my windows so that my target app location is visible from my Finder window. Prior to Yoink I had to spend a lot of time resizing and moving windows so I could “see” from one app to the other in order to drag and drop. Now with Yoink, none of that matters, just drop what you want in Yoink to save it for later, and then drop it onto the target. After using Yoink, when I sit down at a Mac without Yoink installed, it feels like the OS is missing a rritical piece of functionality. This (along with Copia) have become indispensible parts of my daily workflow.I also have to commend the author for his responsiveness. There was previously a partiuclar problem that I was having dropping a particular file type onto a particular program—a .exe. dicom medical image file into an app called Horos--a unique problem to be sure. But the author took the time via email to understand the problem, troubleshoot it, provide a temporary workaround, and have the problem fixed in the next update. I have been using Yoink for over 6 months now: Indispensible. There is also a Yoink app for iOS which works incredibly well doing what the operating system should have done itself. The idea for Yoink is so simple and so needed.
An Invaluable Tool
paradox2222
I use this little shelf every day. It's the place I store almost every saved file that needs to be categorized or uploaded. I'm a teacher, so I work with PDFs all the time. Snapshots of virtual whiteboards as well. I have to get them on Google Classroom but don't really need them stored on my computer. So, I drop the file into yoink, move over to Classroom, then drag and drop it to upload it. It's gone off my computer and exactly where it needs to be. Also, the ability to lock an item and drag and drop it multiple times helps with the repated comments I make on student reports. Select an often repeated comment, drag it to Yoink, lock it, then drag it onto as many reports as necessary. When I'm done, I unlock the file and delete it, no problem. Yoink really has become one of my essential apps.
Yoink is so good that it honestly makes me a little angry.
ryborg 3k
I've been using Yoink for several months now. At home, my main machine runs macOS. However, in the business world, our company stipulates Windows. Yoink is such a useful utility that I have searched IN ANGRY VAIN for a Windows alternative on a near-weekly basis. Yoink streamlines my workflow. Having a drop-point for my files allows me to stay organized. I'm no longer cluttering up random corners of my system with things that are better-placed elsewhere. Yoink lets me hold them for a moment and then place them where I intend for them to go. The peace of mind is priceless.Yoink, however, costs a few bucks but it's worth it. Support this developer. Apps like this one, simple and yet flawlessly-executed, are hard to find. This one's essential and I'm still a little angry about it.
Yoink v3.7.2 (2026.04.28) contains the following improvements and bug fixes:
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- Improves the Quick Look popover's sizing for many file types
- The Quick Look panel can now be pinned so it doesn't disappear automatically when switching apps or spaces
- Renaming works again for app-content like images from websites, or text snippets
- Menu items' icons on macOS 26 Tahoe now respect the “NSMenuEnableActionImages” user default setting
= BUG FIXES =
- Fixes a bug where, after the Mac or display wakes from sleep, Yoink would sometimes appear in the middle of the screen
- Fixes a bug with the Clipboard History contextual menu
- Fixes a bug that could cause the app to hang
- Fixes a rare bug where the Quick Look panel would not disappear
- Fixes a bug where keyboard input sometimes would not be recognized
Thank you for using Yoink for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of Yoink on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
If you'd like to get in touch or connect with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
Matthias
Version 3.7.2
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Seller
Matthias Gansrigler-Hrad
Size
14 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
Languages
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