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Yoink for Mac, my app that drastically simplifies drag and drop, is participating in Bundlehunt’s 2025 Black Friday macOS bundle, at 77% off (USD / GBP 8.99 -> USD / GBP 1.99; EUR 9,99 -> EUR 1,99)

What is Yoink?

Yoink is a temporary place for your file drags. Whether you want to collect images from a website, text snippets from a document, or move files around in Finder, Yoink offers a “shelf” you can place them in so you can move freely to the files’ actual destination. It can hold virtually anything you can drag and appears whenever you start to drag something. It’s also highly customizable to fit your needs.

What’s the 2025 Bundlehunt Black Friday macOS Bundle?

Up until December 31st 2025, the Bundlehunt Black Friday macOS Bundle offers great apps at greatly reduced prices, like Mail Archiver X, Mountain Duck, my app Yoink, and more. Additional apps will be added throughout the bundle’s run.

Links and Availability

✨ Bundlehunt 2025 Black Friday macOS Bundle

➡️ Website + free, 28-day trial + Direct Purchase
🖥️ Mac App Store (one-time lifetime purchase)
🔁 Setapp (also has my apps ScreenFloat and Transloader, plus over 250 awesome apps with one subscription, 7-day trial)
Yoink for Mac is localized into English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean
💡 Usage Tips

📱 Yoink is also available as a separate purchase for iPhone and iPad

💌 Contact & Connect

If you have any feedback or questions, please don’t hesitate to use the contact link above, or below : )
Have a great day.

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Yoink for Mac, my app that drastically simplifies drag and drop, is now available in v3.6.104, fixing a bunch of bugs and minor issues. Also, in addition to being available on the Mac App Store and Setapp, it is now available for purchase directly from my website (joining ScreenFloat and DeskMat).

What is Yoink?

Yoink is a temporary place for your file drags. Whether you want to collect images from a website, text snippets from a document, or move files around in Finder, Yoink offers a “shelf” you can place them in so you can move freely to the files’ actual destination. It can hold virtually anything you can drag and appears whenever you start to drag something. It’s also highly customizable to fit your needs.

What’s New in Yoink v3.6.104?

It isn’t a sexy release, but a good one nonetheless, fixing a bunch of bugs and minor issues, like the shelf sometimes not appearing in different spaces, and improved Force Touch handling.
It now also shows release notes in-app and allows for completely voluntary in-app tipping. The app remains a one-time lifetime purchase, and the update is free for existing customers.

Links and Availability

➡️ Website + free, 28-day trial + Direct Purchase
🖥️ Mac App Store (one-time lifetime purchase)
🔁 Setapp (also has my apps ScreenFloat and Transloader, plus over 250 awesome apps with one subscription, 7-day trial)
Yoink for Mac is localized into English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean
💡 Usage Tips

📱 Yoink is also available as a separate purchase for iPhone and iPad

💌 Contact & Connect

If you have any feedback or questions, please don’t hesitate to use the contact link above, or below : )
Have a great day.

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If you’re using Yoink on macOS Sequoia, you might have encountered an issue where Yoink would not accept any files anymore:

Or if you’re using Transloader on macOS Sequoia, you might find your Link- and File Actions not working correctly:

Basically any app that handles file URLs and saves them as a security-scoped bookmark for later access can be bitten by this bug, currently occurring on macOS 15.0 and 15.0.1.

This is caused by a bug in the macOS daemon process called “ScopedBookmarkAgent”, according to a CoreOS engineer on macOS, as stated on the Apple Developer Forums:

What you’re hitting is bug in “ScopedBookmarksAgent” [sic] which can cause it hang if it happens to have been launched when the keychain was also locked (for example, late in the screen lock process). That bug is fixed as of macOS 15.1 beta 4.

– DTS Engineer, CoreOS/Hardware

The downside is that 3rd party developers like myself cannot fix this in their apps. Apple has to, in macOS.
The upside is that with macOS 15.1, the bug will reportedly be fixed and things should work as they used to.

As a temporary workaround, you can:
– Quit Yoink (or any other afflicted app)
– Using Activity Monitor.app, quit the ScopedBookmarkAgent process
– Relaunch Yoink (or any other afflicted app), and it should work again (for a while)

My apologies for the inconvenience. Here’s to hoping macOS 15.1 will be released soon.

Cheers,
– Matthias

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Today, in 2011, I released Yoink v1.0 to the public, and it looked like this:

I know, right? Its icon looked a bit different, too:

Anyway, long story short, I’m having a sale over this weekend on the App Stores, where you can purchase Yoink for Mac and Yoink for iPad and iPhone at a discount.

Yoink for Mac on the Mac App Store
USD 8.99 / GBP 8.99 / EUR 9,99 -> USD 4.99 / GBP 4.99 / EUR 5,99

Yoink for iPad and iPhone on the iOS App Store
USD 4.99 / GBP 4.99 / EUR 6,99 -> USD 3.99 / GBP 3.99 / EUR 3,99

Enjoy 😊

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