DropBench
Press ⌥Space, drop something in, and get the next action — not a chat window.
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What it does
DropBench recognises what you dropped — an invoice, a screenshot of an error, an address, a link, a stack trace — pulls out the facts that matter, and offers three or four things worth doing with it. You pick one. That's the whole app.
It runs on your Mac
- Recognition, text extraction and OCR all happen on your Mac.
- The clipboard is read only when you ask. There is no polling timer — the absence of that code is the guarantee.
- No account, no telemetry, no server. Nothing is collected, because there is nowhere to collect it.
- If you choose to configure an AI provider, only the actions marked ↗ send anything, and you are asked first.
The privacy statement says exactly what does and does not leave your Mac, in enough detail to check against the app's behaviour.
Installing
Unzip it and drag DropBench to your Applications folder. It lives in the menu bar — there is no Dock icon, because it is summoned rather than opened.
The app is signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens without warnings. It asks for Reminders or Calendar access only at the moment an action needs it.