Drag-and-drop, made fun.
HoverStash catches files mid-drag, holds them for as long as you need, and drops them wherever you actually want — across apps, desktops, spaces. Convert on the fly. Never lose a file between windows again.
Built for people who move files all day.
Writers, designers, developers, researchers — anyone whose workflow lives between apps. HoverStash is the piece that makes those handoffs feel effortless.
- Catches drags mid-flight
Dwell at a screen edge or hold a clutch key while dragging, and HoverStash appears exactly where you need it. Drop files in, drop them back out anywhere.
- Native pill, not a browser window
The dock is a real NSPanel on macOS and a layered Win32 popup on Windows, drawn with tiny-skia. Zero Chromium in the hot path. Opens in under 50 ms.
- Convert on the fly
Right-click a stashed image to convert to WebP, JPEG, PNG, or GIF at any quality. Markdown, HTML, PDF, and plain text all round-trip through the same pipeline.
- Your colours, your material
System accent, custom accent, or a tint of your own. The dock and Settings share the same material so everything reads as one piece. Light + dark + reduce-motion all respected.
- Everything stays on your machine
Files live in your app data folder with a configurable TTL. No cloud, no analytics. The only outgoing request is the license check and it's TLS to your own server.
- Idle at zero cost
When nothing is stashed, HoverStash draws nothing, schedules nothing, listens to nothing but a global input hook. Under 50 MB at rest on both platforms.
Catch the file. Hold it. Hand it off.
Every workflow HoverStash replaces is a tiny version of this dance. Drag something in, let it rest, drop it where it's actually supposed to go — convert it on the way if you need to.
- 1Catch
Drag at a screen edge or hold your clutch key — the pill appears exactly where you need it.
- 2Hold
Files sit in the pill for as long as you want. Swap apps, change spaces, even reboot — nothing leaks.
- 3Hand off
Drop them into their destination. Convert them on the way. Release them back to where they came from.
Try it. If it's not for you, keep the 5 days.
Every copy of HoverStash starts with 5 days of full Pro access — no card, no signup. Pay when you decide it belongs in your toolkit.