Yoink - Better Drag and Drop

Name: Yoink - Better Drag and Drop
Price: 8.99 USD
Rating: 0 (0 reviews)
Author: Matthias Gansrigler-Hrad

Your File and Snippet Shelf

Only for Mac

$8.99 · In‑App Purchases

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4+
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Utilities
Developer

Matthias Gansrigler-Hrad
Language

EN
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35.1
MB

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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!
10/31/2023

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.
still among the first apps I install on a new computer!
10/31/2023

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.
Essential yet simple; a perfect utility
03/11/2020

Luna S Celeste
Yoink is so utterly simple, and it stays out of the user's way until it's needed.But it does one thing really, really well. Yoink fully realizes the potential of drag and drop, a technology that we've had for over 35 years, and I couldn't see myself working without it. I live in full screen windows, and often applications expect users to drag and drop files without providing an interface to browse the filesystem--or the file I want to select is buried deep in the filesystem hierarchy, making navigating to it difficult. Additionally, maybe I want to cross-share something from one social app to another (like Riot to Discord).Yoink solves all these problems exceptionally well, and does it quietly, unobtrusively. Truly masterful design that would fit in wonderfully in the core of macOS (and I truly agree with another reviewer saying it should be purchased by Apple).
Essential yet simple; a perfect utility
03/11/2020

Luna S Celeste

Yoink is so utterly simple, and it stays out of the user's way until it's needed.But it does one thing really, really well. Yoink fully realizes the potential of drag and drop, a technology that we've had for over 35 years, and I couldn't see myself working without it. I live in full screen windows, and often applications expect users to drag and drop files without providing an interface to browse the filesystem--or the file I want to select is buried deep in the filesystem hierarchy, making navigating to it difficult. Additionally, maybe I want to cross-share something from one social app to another (like Riot to Discord).Yoink solves all these problems exceptionally well, and does it quietly, unobtrusively. Truly masterful design that would fit in wonderfully in the core of macOS (and I truly agree with another reviewer saying it should be purchased by Apple).
Has Totally Transformed My Workflow
05/16/2018

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.
Has Totally Transformed My Workflow
05/16/2018

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
11/07/2020

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.
An Invaluable Tool
11/07/2020

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 v3.7 (2026.01.28) contains the following improvements and bug fixes: = IMPROVEMENTS = - Improves the “hold down fn to toggle Yoink on-the-fly” functionality - When double-clicking a file in Yoink to open it, the opening app now reliably becomes the frontmost app - Improves how screen changes are handled (i.e., resolution changes, removing or adding displays, wake-from-sleep) - On macOS 14 “Sonoma” and later, the clipboard history can now hold up to 200 items - Now uses the new Share sheet on macOS 13 Ventura and newer - Improves Yoink's behavior on Macs with multiple screens - Improves the way the Clipboard History widget looks in background modes - When Yoink isn't showing, and you drag something that you don't drop to Yoink, it will now hide again - Improves the way Yoink behaves during drags in general - Improves support for drags from private windows in Firefox - Improves the reachability of Yoink's contextual menu, as you can now also right-click between the two buttons at the bottom to open it - Improved the overall stability, reliability and performance of the app - Changed the order of items in the contextual menu for improved clarity - Double-clicking files in Yoink has been improved, as it now respects selected files, and better supports folders. Hold down the command key (⌘) to reveal double-clicked files in Finder. - You can now hide and show Yoink also from its icon in the menu bar - Placing Yoink's window by moving it around has been improved - Made Yoink's file list and window a little more appealing - You can now mute the “Files in the Trash” warning for an hour, the day, or until Yoink is quit - Yoink now displays a “Trash” symbol for files that are in the Trash = BUG FIXES = - Fixes a few memory leaks - Fixes a potential crash of the Clipboard History widget - Fixes a UI issue in the Settings window's toolbar, when the Extensions tab was selected - The “Continue” button in the Splash screen now goes through every page before closing the window - Fixes a bug where sometimes Yoink would hide even though a file was dropped on it - Slightly increased the window corner radius on macOS 26 “Tahoe” - Fixes an issue where the Continuity Camera menu item was shown in certain menus it didn't belong in - Fixes a bug where, in rare cases, files within special folders would not be remembered over relaunches of Yoink or restarts of the Mac - Fixes an issue where on rare occasions Quick Look-ing a file didn't work - Removed the “resolve alias” functionality. While the alias could successfully be resolved to the original file, the resulting file path could not be used in the macOS app sandbox environment - Fixes and improves some strings and localizations - Fixes an issue with auto-sizing Yoink's window, where the list would grow way larger than it needed to be 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

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