# Quartz Drop

> Dropdown windows for any Mac app on a global hotkey. Quake-style toggle for Terminal, Finder, Safari, or anything else. The macOS sibling of plasma-drop, and it

- Page: https://www.whatwemade.app/p/quartz-drop
- What it is: Desktop app, for productivity
- Made by: [whatwemade-vagueness207](https://www.whatwemade.app/u/whatwemade-vagueness207)
- Run it yourself: get the code and run your own copy
- Code: https://github.com/SkeLLLa/quartz-drop (GPL-3.0, 3 stars)
- Languages: English
- Wants contributors: Test, improve UI/UX, new features
- Tags: accessibility, app-launcher, dropdown, dropdown-terminal, global-hotkey
- Upvotes: 1, comments: 0

## About

Dropdown windows for any Mac app, on a hotkey.

Press a shortcut and Terminal (or Finder, Safari, Notes, anything you like) appears in its spot, say the left half of the screen, already focused. Press it again and it's gone. If the app isn't running, quartz-drop starts it first. Think of a Quake-style dropdown terminal, but for every app you use.

quartz-drop is the macOS version of plasma-drop for KDE Plasma, and reads the same config.

You need macOS 13 (Ventura) or newer. Builds are universal, so they run on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

## How it was made

- Claude Code, 45% of the work
- Codex, 45% of the work
- Stack: Swift

## What you need to run it

- Platform: MacOS 13+

Shared on WhatWeMade: https://www.whatwemade.app/p/quartz-drop