TopShelfRelease notes
What's new in TopShelf.
Every release, newest first.
Celebration alerts
Alarms, timers, meetings, reminders, goals and new mail arrive with a 1.9-second broadcast-style stinger. Choose Celebration, Colour flash or None, and a soft tick instead of a chime.
Opens on your Shelf
TopShelf now opens on the File Shelf by default. Hold ⌘ while you drag a file anywhere and it lands on the shelf. Folders and apps drag back out too.
Stays open while you use it
If the pointer slips out after you've clicked, scrolled or dragged, TopShelf waits (3 seconds by default, adjustable from 0 to 10) before closing.
Install and start at login
Opened from a download or the disk image, TopShelf offers to move itself into Applications, and it starts at login by default.
Clipboard upgrades
Favourites and filters, rich text with copy as plain text, verification codes deleted after two minutes, ↑↓ ↩ and drag out, and AI actions on text with the opt-in Assistant.
Inbox: unread counts only
Inbox reads only Mail's unread count for each account, about once a minute, so Mail never freezes on a big mailbox.
Breaks
Gentle heads-up, floating countdown, full-screen pause on every display, Smart Pause, office hours, Casual/Balanced/Hardcore, daily stats, a Screen Score, a menu-bar timer and shortcuts.
Shelf: a right-click menu for every file
Open With, Show in Finder, Quick Look, share through AirDrop, Mail, Messages and Notes, Copy to and Move to, Rename, Create ZIP Archive, Copy Path, Add From Clipboard, and Protect Using Password for PDFs.
Shelf: something useful when it's empty
With nothing parked, the shelf suggests your newest downloads, what's playing and your next event. Drop a file and your files take over again.
Now playing in the closed notch
Song and artist sit next to the artwork and scroll when they don't fit.
TopShelf Sense (opt-in)
Blink awareness, screen-break reminders, head-position insights, wellness check-ins, historical charts and an experimental pulse estimate. Camera off by default, processed on-device, no video recorded, no uploads, no face recognition. Camera numbers are unvalidated estimates. Not a medical device; the pulse estimate is experimental and not a heart-rate monitor.
Calendar: Recent Apps
The Calendar view shows the three most recently used apps as cards; click one to switch back.
Wellness: line icons
A new line-icon design for all nine reminders.
Steadier
Fixes a crash when changing settings with repeating calendar events, a crash with VoiceOver on Sense's live page, and ZIP archives of single files. The shelf now says why a file couldn't be added.
iCloud sync
Preferences and quick notes sync through iCloud; privacy consents never do. Needs a build signed for iCloud, so it is off in the preview.
In build d7fd0a6
Every change since the previous download, as committed.
- Branding: add the master logos and generate every asset from them
First release
Music, File Shelf, Calendar, timers, notes, live activities, wellness reminders, the calculator, Inbox, Live Scores, clipboard history, system stats, quick actions, break reminders and seven themes, in a calm bar at the top of your Mac.
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