Yoink overview

Yoink helps by making drag-and-drop between Spaces or full-screen apps easier.

Every time you start dragging a file, Yoink fades in a tiny window on the left edge of your screen so you can drag files to it. This frees up your mouse so you can comfortably navigate to the destination of the drop and resume the drag from Yoink's window.

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What’s new in version 3.7

Improvements:

Improves the “hold down fn to toggle Yoink on-the-fly” functionality.
When double-clicking a file in Yoink to open it, the opening app now reliably becomes the frontmost app.
Improves how screen changes are handled (i.e., resolution changes, removing or adding displays, wake-from-sleep).
On macOS 14 “Sonoma” and later, the clipboard history can now hold up to 200 items.
Now uses the new Share sheet on macOS 13 Ventura and newer.
Improves Yoink's behavior on Macs with multiple screens.
Improves the way the Clipboard History widget looks in background modes.
When Yoink isn't showing, and you drag something that you don't drop to Yoink, it will now hide again.
Improves the way Yoink behaves during drags in general.
Improves support for drags from private windows in Firefox.
Improves the reachability of Yoink's contextual menu, as you can now also right-click between the two buttons at the bottom to open it.
Improved the overall stability, reliability and performance of the app.
Changed the order of items in the contextual menu for improved clarity.
Double-clicking files in Yoink has been improved, as it now respects selected files, and better supports folders.Hold down the command key (⌘) to reveal double-clicked files in Finder.
You can now hide and show Yoink also from its icon in the menu bar.
Placing Yoink's window by moving it around has been improved.
Made Yoink's file list and window a little more appealing.
You can now mute the “Files in the Trash” warning for an hour, the day, or until Yoink is quit.
Yoink now displays a “Trash” symbol for files that are in the Trash.

Bug fixes:

Fixes a few memory leaks.
Fixes a potential crash of the Clipboard History widget.
Fixes a UI issue in the Settings window's toolbar, when the Extensions tab was selected.
The “Continue” button in the Splash screen now goes through every page before closing the window.
Fixes a bug where sometimes Yoink would hide even though a file was dropped on it.
Slightly increased the window corner radius on macOS 26 “Tahoe”.
Fixes an issue where the Continuity Camera menu item was shown in certain menus it didn't belong in
Fixes a bug where, in rare cases, files within special folders would not be remembered over relaunches of Yoink or restarts of the Mac
Fixes an issue where on rare occasions Quick Look-ing a file didn't work
Removed the “resolve alias” functionality. While the alias could successfully be resolved to the original file, the resulting file path could not be used in the macOS app sandbox environment
Fixes and improves some strings and localizations
Fixes an issue with auto-sizing Yoink's window, where the list would grow way larger than it needed to b