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CLUSTER FINDER-MACOS-SHORTCUTS · 16 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-03

macOS Finder cut-paste utilities

This cluster covers macOS utilities that add Windows-style cut-and-paste for files in Finder, typically through menu-bar interfaces and keyboard shortcuts. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as only 0 dated entries exist before the index start, indicating the cluster predates the index or its members are undated. Traction is led by Kumquat with 6 stars, followed by Phaeton and SmartSelect with 2 stars each.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2026: 10OCT 2026: 6
SEP 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 15 unlabelled

Operator · 13 hobby · 1 indie · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 16 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Kumquat6★9 days—hobbymacOS menu bar tool that lets users convert files by dragging them onto a radial format wheel, with local compression and editing options.
  2. 02Phaeton2★9 days—hobbymacOS menu-bar file converter that opens a wheel on Shift-drag, converts dropped files, and edits images, audio, video, and PDFs.
  3. 03SmartSelect2★23 dayslivemacOS menu-bar utility that expands double-click selection to whole emails, numbers, URLs, dates, or paths instead of word fragments.
  4. 04pathsta1★23 days—Editable path bar utility for macOS Finder that lets users type or paste a folder path to navigate directly.
  5. 05shuck1★18 days—hobbymacOS utility that removes indentation and hard line breaks from text copied from a terminal and pastes cleaned text with a keyboard shortcut.
  6. 06FinderToys1★21 dayslivehobbymacOS utility that enhances Finder with keyboard shortcuts for opening, renaming, clipboard pasting, and creating new files.
  7. 07finder-address-bar1★1 day—hobbymacOS utility that adds an editable address bar to Finder windows, letting users type or paste a path and press Enter to navigate.
  8. 08Renamorph1★13 days—hobbyMac menu bar utility that converts files to a new format when their extension changes, preserving the original with backups and undo.
  9. 09Shelf1★23 days—hobbymacOS file organizer that groups files into modules using shortcuts without moving originals and suggests a likely module automatically.
  10. 10FreeCutPaste1★4 days—hobbymacOS menu bar utility that brings cut-and-paste file moving to Finder with Command+X and Command+V shortcuts.
  11. 11cutx1★22 dayslivehobbymacOS menu-bar utility that adds Windows-style cut-and-paste for files in Finder using keyboard shortcuts.
  12. 12OpenInVim0★4 days—hobbyWindows utility that adds an Open in Vim option to the context menu for opening files and folders in Vim.
  13. 13grab0★8 days—indiemacOS utility that copies text, links, images, QR codes, colors, files, code, and tables by pointing at them and pressing a key.
  14. 14QuickSave1★1 molivehobbymacOS menu bar utility that saves selected text as .txt files to a folder using a hotkey, creating directories automatically.
  15. 15release-folder-action1★1 mo—hobbymacOS Finder quick action that moves the contents of selected folders up into the current directory, preserving subfolders and avoiding overwrites.
  16. 16jags-directory0★28 dayslivehand-codedhobbymacOS Finder utility that adds quick actions to copy local file links and open pasted links, for referencing local files in AI prompts.

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