Launch Anything. Drag & Drop Everything. Meet Outpost — your instant drag-and-launch companion for macOS.
Outpost brings your favorite contacts, apps, folders, and custom actions to the tip of your cursor. With a single hotkey, a stunning floating palette appears, ready to receive files, text, or links — no window switching, no digging through files and folders.
Whether you’re sharing a photo with a contact, dropping a document into a project folder, or triggering a custom script, Outpost keeps your workflow flowing.
Why you’ll love Outpost:
• Hotkey-First Design – Always available without breaking your flow, either via mouse or hotkey.
• Cursor-Centered Palette – Press your hotkey and Outpost blooms around your pointer with gorgeous icons.
• Contacts & Apps – Pull in the people and apps you use most.
• Custom Destinations – Pin folders, apps, cloud locations, scripts, and Quick Actions.
• Drag-and-Drop Friendly – Drop files directly onto your shortcuts.
• Quick to Configure – Add or remove items with just a few clicks.
• Totally customizable – Add custom scripts, shortcuts and more. Unlimited possibilities.
• Cargo Hold – Drop files into the Cargo Hold to collect them, then drag them out all at once.
• Market Watch – Display your favorite stocks or index with beautiful spark charts and realtime updates
Perfect for:
• Power users who automate with scripts, or take fast action on files and shortcuts
• Creatives who need to move files between multiple clients or folders
• Anyone who wants to stop context-switching just to send a file
Outpost is designed to be fast, beautiful, and invisible until you need it — a frictionless bridge between where you are and where your files need to go.
Launch Anything. Drag & Drop Everything.
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A fantastic tool, when it works.
Znic Shots
I love this app. The whole idea and how it’s implemented is great, but it’s not without its issues. The move to trash and cargo hold features do not always work. I cleared the cache, and that seems to have fixed the move to trash (it wouldn’t move the files before), but it took me a while to figure out. The cargo hold allows me to put the items in the list, but I can’t click and drag them out. When I try, it just moves the whole window. I truly believe this could be an instant essential on every Mac I’ll own, but only if the current bugs are addressed.
It’s an instant-essential
LeBongFlamez
It's rare for an app to feel instantly indispensable, but Outpost Launcher is one of those exceptions. It fixes a workflow issue macOS that I've been waiting for a first party like solution, without being a full-on dock replacement like everything else with similar functionality.Right away a few ways I was able to add to my workflow right away via; Dragging files straight from the downloads stack in the dock s without needing a Finder window to: - Sending .html files to Whisk or previewing them in Arc. - Quickly opening CSV files in either Numbers or Excel. - Opening PDFs in Affinity Designer, UPDF, or Preview. - Tossing images into CleanShot X for instant editing.Looking ahead, I hope to see dedicated launcher profiles for different file types (like PDFs, images, CSVs), the ability to exclude certain window types from the mouse shake gesture, and an auto-hide feature.All In All; it should absolutely be in the conversation for an App of the Year award.
Developer Response
WOW - such a kind review, thanks a bunch! So glad you enjoy it!
Great app
HeyItsBlink
I love the idea, and the interface… but it doesn’t work, hardly ever for me. I’m reaching out to the developer to see if he can get it working. I’ll update the review depending on what I find out.UPDATE: I got more information from the dev and you have to drag the files. It’s actually nice that you can use it as a shortcut to open an app also… it eliminates the need for another app called Launchy.
Carefully developed portfolio of critical apps.
0x906
This is the third app I bought from this dev, and each solves a critical problem for me. Parachute Backup backs up iCloud files to my NAS. Offloader moves files from my local disk to iCloud faster than macOS, freeing up disk space. Outpost Launcher makes it easy to save files to my Desktop and move them afterward. Each app is well-developed and works as intended. Keep it up, dev…
Developer Response
Appreciate the kind words!
Additional improvements and fixes
Version 1.3.2
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