Pouch – Drag & Drop Shelf

Screenshots, GIFs & converter

Only for Mac

Free

Mac

Drag a file and a cat paw grabs it. Then capture and annotate screenshots, record GIFs and videos, and convert or shrink files. Free, private, no account. Pouch is a temporary shelf for anything you drag on your Mac, and a pocket full of tools: screenshots, screen recordings, GIFs and file conversions. Drop files, text, images or links on the shelf, switch windows, Spaces or full-screen apps, then drag everything out exactly where it belongs. A CAT PAW CATCHES YOUR FILES • Start dragging a file: a cat paw pops out of the edge of your screen and grabs it • Pick your paw: five cat coats, or a dog, rabbit, panda, bear or fox • Prefer the classic way? Let the shelf itself slide in instead A SHELF FOR EVERYTHING YOU DRAG • Files, folders, text, images, links, Mail messages, events and contacts • Drag items out into Finder, Mail, a web form or any app: what you drag out leaves the shelf, unless you lock it • Press ⌘⇧Space to show the shelf, twice to park your clipboard • Quick Look, multiple selection, stacks and full keyboard control • Reduce Size swaps pictures, videos, sound files and PDFs for much lighter copies • Convert To turns a file into another format, right on the shelf SCREENSHOTS • Capture an area, a window (with its shadow or on a backdrop), the whole screen or a long scrolling page • Annotate with arrows, text, shapes, highlighter, numbered steps, spotlight and magnifier • Hide private details with blur or pixelation • Copy the text in any capture with on-device text recognition, read QR codes, pick colors and check contrast • Pin a capture on screen, then copy, save, share or drop it on the shelf SCREEN RECORDING • Record an area, a window or the whole screen as a GIF or a video • Show the pointer, clicks and keys pressed; add the Mac's sound and your microphone • Trim, cut, change the speed, loop as a boomerang, annotate and blur • Export to GIF, MP4, MOV, WebP or APNG, under the file size you choose • A library keeps your captures and recordings, searchable by the text in them CONVERT AND REDUCE Turn files into other formats or make them much lighter, from the shelf or in their own window: • Pictures: PNG, JPEG, HEIC, AVIF, WebP, TIFF, GIF, PDF, ICO, ICNS and more • Videos: MP4, MOV, ProRes, and GIF, WebP or APNG animations • Sound: AAC, Apple Lossless, FLAC, Opus, WAV, AIFF • Documents and PDFs: Word, RTF, HTML, Markdown, text, pictures of each page, merged PDFs • Data and archives: JSON, property lists, CSV, ZIP The original file never changes. THE ISLAND On Macs with a notch, Pouch tucks a compact Island around the camera; on other Macs and displays, a floating capsule. Open it for your shelf, transfers, a focus timer, battery, system status, favorite folders, clipboard history and one-click tools. EXTRA BRIGHTNESS On Macs with an XDR display, make the whole screen up to twice as bright for sunny days, with a timer and battery rules. YOUR FILES STAY SAFE • Dropping a file only creates a reference: the original stays where it is • Removing an item from Pouch never deletes the original file • Hold ⌘ while dropping to move a file: it is copied and verified before the original goes to the Trash PRIVATE BY DESIGN Pouch works entirely on your Mac. It never connects to the internet, contains no analytics or tracking and needs no account; the only connection it accepts comes from its optional browser extension, on your Mac itself. Your shelf, captures, recordings and clipboard history stay on your Mac. GOOD TO KNOW • Lives in the menu bar, without a Dock icon • Available in 12 languages • Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs Free. No ads, no account, no subscription, no in-app purchases.

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What's new in Pouch 1.1.2: • On macOS 26, clicking Pouch's icon in the menu bar opens its menu again instead of quitting Pouch. • New companions catch your files: a giraffe, three snakes, an octopus and a dachshund (Settings › Drag & Drop › Your companion). • Redrawn paws, more playful: they curl their fingers around the file they catch, and long arms and necks keep their markings. • Random: a different companion comes out each time, among the ones you check. • Pouch now receives full-page captures from Pouch Full Page, its extension for Chrome: they land on the shelf and in your captures folder (Settings › Screenshots › Browser Extension). Pouch only listens on your Mac and never connects to the internet. • Dragging the last file out of the side shelf now hides it every time, as “Hide when empty” says. Thanks for using Pouch! Questions or ideas? Reach us from the support page.

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    Seller
    EXOGROUPE
    Size
    32.4 MB
    Category
    Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 11 more
    • English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © 2026 ExoGroupe