Platforms
Aktar for Mac
A native menu bar app that uploads files and screenshots to your own S3-compatible storage and puts the link on your clipboard. Free, open source and signed by Apple.
brew install --cask getaktar/tap/aktarSee it in action
What you can do
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Lives in the menu bar
Drop files on the panel, paste with ⌘V or pick them in Finder. No Dock icon, and almost no resources while idle.
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One shortcut from anywhere
Press ⌃⇧⌘U in any app and whatever is on your clipboard, a screenshot or a file copied in Finder, is uploaded without opening the panel.
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Your uploads and your buckets
A searchable history with previews, plus a browser for every folder in each bucket: search, preview, upload into folders, rename, move and delete.
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Links the way you paste them
Copy a plain URL, Markdown, HTML or your own template. Temporary links, valid from 1 hour to 7 days, also work for private buckets. Uploads can also delete themselves after 1, 7, 14 or 30 days.
Works with Raycast
Upload, search your history and browse buckets straight from Raycast with the free Aktar extension.
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Signed, sandboxed, private
Keys stay in the macOS Keychain, files go straight from your Mac to your storage, and there is no analytics. Notarized by Apple.
A closer look
Built with SwiftUI, so it feels right at home on macOS.
Pick a destination, drop your files and grab recent links without leaving what you're doing.
Browse every bucket folder by folder, search all of it, preview files and copy public or temporary links.
Record your own global shortcut, or keep the default ⌃⇧⌘U. It works even when the panel is closed.
Decide what lands on your clipboard after each upload, including your own template.
Connect a bucket in under a minute. Presets fill in the right endpoint and region for you.
Requirements
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Any S3-compatible storage: Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, DigitalOcean Spaces, MinIO and more
- Free and open source under the MIT license
Build from source
Prefer to compile it yourself? You'll need Xcode and XcodeGen.
git clone https://github.com/getaktar/mac.git
cd mac
brew install xcodegen
xcodegen generate
open Aktar.xcodeproj