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/tendedero
Tendedero 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.app
Requires 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.
1. On first launch, Tendedero offers to handle your screenshots. If you accept, it turns off the floating thumbnail and saves new screenshots to its own folder, two settings also found under Options in Cmd+Shift+5. Your previous settings are saved and restored when Tendedero quits or the option is turned off from the menu bar. Tendedero hides automatically while an app is in full screen.
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.
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Tendedero 是一个非常小的原生 macOS 应用，会把你截的每张截图挂在菜单栏正下方的一条横条上，而不是让它们在桌面上越堆越多。