Free and open source. For macOS 14 and later.
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Out of sight. Within reach.
Every screenshot you take hangs on a line just above your screen. Rest the pointer in the menu bar and it glides down. Move away and it's gone.
A gesture for everything.
| | | |:--|:--| | Click | Copy the image. | | Press and hold | Open it in Markup. | | Double click | Open it in Preview. | | Drag into an app | Send a copy. It stays on the line. | | Drag into a folder | Keep it there. It leaves the line. | | Drag to the Trash, or click the cross | Let it go. | | Rest the pointer in the menu bar | Bring the line down on that screen. | | Click anything in the menu bar | Put it away. | | ⌃ ⌥ T | Show or hide the line. |
Your Desktop. Finally clear.
Hand Tendedero your screenshots1 and they skip the Desktop entirely. No floating thumbnail. No five-second wait. Each capture hangs the instant you take it, and only what you drag out is kept.
Same shortcuts. Same muscle memory. Just less mess.
Private by design.
No account. No network. No analytics. Tendedero runs entirely on your Mac, and your screenshots never leave it.
Tech Specs
| | | |:--|:--| | Compatibility | macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple silicon and Intel. Designed for macOS 27. | | Size | 1.7 MB | | Languages | English, Spanish | | Built with | Swift, AppKit and SwiftUI | | Network access | None | | Price | Free | | License | MIT for the code. The name and icon are not included. |
Install
Download the disk image from the latest release, open it and drag Tendedero to Applications. Or install it with Homebrew:
brew install --cask alejandrobujan/tap/tendederoTendedero is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other app.
Build from source
git clone [email protected]:alejandrobujan/tendedero.git
cd tendedero
scripts/build-app.sh
open build/Tendedero.appRequires the Swift toolchain. Xcode is optional. With the Command Line Tools for macOS 27, the script falls back to the macOS 26 SDK they install alongside, because the new SDK needs a SwiftUI macro plugin only Xcode includes. Local builds are signed ad hoc, so macOS asks again for access to the Desktop after each rebuild.
Inside the app
| File | Role |
|:--|:--|
| AppDelegate.swift | Menu bar, shortcut, revealing and tucking away the line |
| LinePanel.swift | The transparent strip along the top of the screen |
| LineView.swift | The line and where each photo hangs |
| PeggedView.swift | One photo: glass frame, clip, swing and breeze |
| GrabArea.swift | Click, long press, drag and drop |
| ScreenshotWatcher.swift | Notices new screenshots |
| Inbox.swift | Takes over screenshot settings and puts them back |
| Markup.swift | Opens the system Markup editor and saves the result |
| FullScreen.swift | Knows when to stay hidden |
| Line.swift | What is hanging, and what you can do with it |
Every image here, the icon included, is drawn in code by
scripts/make-icon.swift and scripts/make-readme-art.swift.
scripts/make-dmg.sh builds the disk image for releases.
The code is MIT licensed. The Tendedero name and icon are not, so forks need their own. See LICENSE.
Designed and built by Alejandro Buján.