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LinkDrop

Save links from your clipboard as files on macOS. Instantly.

Download for macOS

v1.0.0 · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon · 1.3 MB download

224 KB
Binary size
213
Lines of code
0
Dependencies
~15 MB
Memory usage

Three steps. That's it.

1

Copy a URL

Any link — a website, a file path, a deep link. Just copy it.

2

Open LinkDrop

The URL is auto-filled from your clipboard. Edit the name if you want.

3

Cmd+Return

A clickable .url file appears in your Downloads folder.


Links deserve to be files.

You're deep in research, switching between browser tabs, Slack threads, and documents. You find a link you want to keep — but where do you put it?

macOS makes it surprisingly hard to save a URL as a file. There's no "Save Link" in Finder. You end up pasting URLs into notes or browser bookmarks you'll never find again.

If you organize things in folders, you want links as files. Clickable, movable, sortable. Just like everything else in Finder.

LinkDrop main window showing a URL being saved as a .url file

Small app. Sharp focus.

Clipboard-first

Auto-reads your clipboard on launch. No pasting needed.

Smart naming

Derives a readable filename from the URL. Edit it if you prefer something else.

Configurable

Change the save folder in Settings (Cmd+,). Defaults to ~/Downloads.

Truly native

Built with SwiftUI. No Electron, no web views, no runtime. Opens in milliseconds.


LinkDrop settings window for configuring the save folder

Build from source

No Xcode project needed. Just the Swift compiler.

$ git clone https://github.com/trsdn/link-drop.git
$ cd link-drop
$ make install

That's it. The entire app is a single 213-line Swift file.