Edge Tabs — for macOS & Windows
Edge Tabs turns the edges of your screen into auto-hiding drawers for your files and folders. Glide to the edge, and what you need slides into view.
Free for 7 days · No account required
Hover a colored tab at the edge ↑ ← →
A short tour of how the drawers work, what goes in them, and why your desktop stays clean.
Prefer the full walkthrough? Watch the training videos →
Choose how many tabs go on the left, right, and top of your screen — at least two per edge, as many as you need. Name each one. Give it a color.
Drag files and folders straight into a tab. Each drawer is a real folder on your disk — nothing is hidden away in a database you can't see.
Tabs tuck away until your mouse comes near. Then they slide out. Click to pin one open while you work, click again to let it hide.
Everything below works on macOS and Windows alike. The only differences are the ones the operating systems themselves impose.
Left, right, and top. Put your drawers where your hand already goes.
Drawers stay tucked away as a thin sliver and slide out the moment your pointer nears the edge.
Working out of one drawer for a while? Pin it open. Click again and it goes back to hiding.
Give each drawer its own name and color so you recognize it before you've read a word.
Drag files and folders in from anywhere — and drag them straight back out into any app.
Double-click a folder to open it right inside the drawer. Go deeper, then step back up.
Type to narrow a busy drawer down to the one file you're after.
Take a quick look at a file without launching the app that made it.
The clipboard shortcuts you already know, working exactly as you'd expect.
Pick several files at once, or drag a selection box across them, and act on the lot.
See your images as images, so you can find the right one at a glance.
Finished a project? Archive the whole drawer in one move and start the tab fresh.
Removing a file sends it to the Trash or Recycle Bin, where you can always get it back.
Your drawers stay where you expect them, however many screens you work across.
Every drawer is an ordinary folder on your disk. Uninstall Edge Tabs and your files are exactly where you left them.
Drag straight from the Finder into a drawer. Press Space to preview a file with Quick Look. Deleted files go to the Trash, exactly where you'd look for them.
Drag straight from File Explorer into a drawer. Preview a file before you open it. Deleted files go to the Recycle Bin, right where you'd expect.
Set up a few drawers, drop your work in, and see how it feels to stop hunting for files. If it's not for you, nothing happens — your files never left your disk.
macOS 12+ · Windows 10 & 11 · Free for 7 days