tendedero

Project Overview

Tendedero hangs every screenshot and everything you copy on a line at the top of your screen, and does all of it on your Mac. Rest the pointer in the middle of the menu bar and the line glides down; move away and it tucks itself back. Screenshots never land on the Desktop, and copied text, links and images can wait on the line for you.

Item	Value
Platform	macOS 14 Sonoma or later
Stack	Swift, AppKit, SwiftUI
Bundle size	5.1 MB
Languages	13, including Simplified Chinese
License	MIT (code only)

Screenshots and clipboard items stop piling up on the Desktop and hang on a line you can see and reach without breaking focus.

Key Features

• Screenshots go straight up: Tendedero takes over the screenshot settings, turns off the floating thumbnail, and hangs each capture the moment it is taken
• A clean Desktop: only what you drag out is saved, everything else waits on the line
• Copied content too: text, web addresses and images can be enabled one by one from the menu bar, and the shirt icon fills in while any is on
• Search on this Mac: press ⌃⌥F, type, and only matching screenshots, notes and links stay; Return copies the newest match
• Sensitive content skipped: password fields, what a password manager marks as private, and anything arriving through Universal Clipboard are never hung
• Screen recordings: a recording hangs with a play button over it, and a long press trims it

Gestures and Shortcuts

• Click to copy: a screenshot copies as an image, a note copies as text styled the way it was
• Press and hold: screenshots open in the system Markup editor, notes open for editing
• Double click: images open in Preview, links open in your browser
• Drag to decide: drag into an app to copy, into a folder to keep and take it off the line, to the Trash to let it go
• Shift-click to select: the menu, ⌘C, ⌫ and a drag then act on the whole selection, while Esc or a plain click clears it
• Pin and hold: right-click Pin keeps an item on a clip, right-click Hold lifts it off the line and keeps it in front of you
• Show and hide: ⌃⌥T tucks the line away or brings it back, and the shortcut can be changed under Shortcut in the menu bar

Target Audience

• Developers and designers who take dozens of screenshots a day
• Writers who look things up while drafting
• Office workers who keep reusing clipboard material
• Privacy-minded users who want content to stay local

Quick Start

1. Download the latest disk image and drag the app into Applications, or run brew install tendedero
2. Accept the offer to handle screenshots on first launch, which turns off the floating thumbnail
3. Rest the pointer in the middle of the menu bar, then click any screenshot to copy it
4. Turn on text, links and images one by one under Hang what you copy in the menu bar
5. Press ⌃⌥F and search once to confirm the text in your screenshots has been indexed locally

System Requirements

Item	Requirement
OS	macOS 14 Sonoma or later
Architecture	Apple silicon and Intel
Bundle size	5.1 MB
Network access	None
Toolchain	Swift toolchain, Xcode optional

Notes

• Permissions: handling screenshots needs access to the Desktop and the capture folder, and locally rebuilt versions ask again after each build
• Full-screen apps: the line hides itself while an app is in full screen and returns when you leave it
• Search needs recognition: text is read on the Mac, so a screenshot whose text cannot be read is only searchable as an image
• Branding: the code is MIT, but the Tendedero name and icon are not covered
• Clipboard rules: Universal Clipboard items and what a password manager marks as private never hang, and copied content deserves a glance before it goes up