Ledge

Your downloads, filed the moment they land.

Ledge sorts a finished download into the right folder and keeps it one click away in the menu bar — drag any row straight into whatever you are working in.

macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel · notarized by Apple

It lives in the menu bar. No Dock icon, no window.

What it does

Files itself

A finished download goes to Images, Videos, Documents and the rest, by extension. Ledge waits until the file has actually finished writing before it touches it.

Keeps it reachable

The shelf lists what just came in and where it went. Drag a row straight into Slack, Finder or Premiere — the drag carries the real file.

Undoes anything

Every move is journaled. One click puts a file back where it was found, under its original name.

Cleans up what is already there

Organize Now shows what it would move before it moves anything. The whole batch undoes as one action.

Project mode

Pick a folder as the active project and downloads go into it instead of Downloads, with the same rules, so the project grows the same subfolders.

The shelf says Berlin pitch▸ and every download for the next hour lands there.

Twenty-five files for one pitch used to mean twenty-five drags. Now you just download them.

Two promises

It never overwrites.

If report.pdf is already there, the arriving file becomes report (1).pdf. Every time — every move in the app goes through one mover that picks a free name and takes it in a single step.

It never descends into a folder.

A folder is moved whole or not at all. A project folder, a cloned repo or an unzipped download stays intact; a folder merely named footage.mp4 is not a video.

Install

  1. Open Ledge.dmg and drag Ledge onto Applications.

  2. Launch it from Applications.It lives in the menu bar — look for the tray icon. No Dock icon, no window.

  3. Allow access to Downloads when macOS asks.Until then Ledge can see nothing, and says so.