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menuDrop

A macOS menu bar app for Raindrop.io. Browse, open, and save bookmarks without leaving what you're doing.

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menuDrop is a macOS menu bar app for Raindrop.io. Your bookmarks live in your menu bar — browse, open, and save without ever leaving what you’re doing.


Download #

Download menuDrop 1.5.1 (.dmg)

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Setup #

  1. Open the app — it appears as a drop icon in your menu bar
  2. Click it and choose Settings…
  3. Paste your Raindrop API token and click Load
  4. Pin your favourite collections and tags, then click Save

Get your token at app.raindrop.io/settings/integrationsFor Developers → Create test token.


The menu #

Quick actions #

Item What it does
📋 Add Clipboard URL Saves the URL on your clipboard to Raindrop — fetches the page title automatically
🕐 Recent Shows your 10 most recently added bookmarks
🌐 Open Raindrop Web Opens app.raindrop.io in your browser

Sections #

Section Description
❤️ Favourites Your favourite bookmarks, pre-loaded on launch for speed
📌 Pinned Collections and tags you’ve pinned in Settings, pre-loaded on launch for speed
📁 Collections All other collections, in a submenu
🏷 Tags Top 25 tags by count, in a submenu

Submenus load lazily — bookmarks are only fetched when you hover over a collection or tag.

Bookmark actions #

Click any bookmark to open a submenu with these options:

Action What it does
↗ Open Opens the bookmark in your browser
⎘ Copy URL Copies the URL to clipboard
[ ] Copy as Markdown Copies as [title](url)
✎ Edit in Raindrop Opens the bookmark editor in Raindrop web
♡ Add to Favourites / ♥ Remove from Favourites Toggles the bookmark’s favourite status

Keyboard shortcut #

The default shortcut to open the menu is ⌥⌘R.

To change it: Settings… → Shortcuts → click the field and press any modifier+key combination.


Settings #

Open via the menu or ⌘, when the settings window is focused.

  • General — Set your API token, pin collections and tags
  • Shortcuts — Customise the global keyboard shortcut

The menu refreshes automatically every 5 minutes, or you can trigger a manual refresh from the bottom of the menu.


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