All Apps, file shelf and camera

All Apps

A grid of every application, for the times when you would rather look than search. Filter at the top, click to launch.

Pinned apps come first, hidden apps do not appear at all. Both are set with ⌘K on an app in the palette. See Actions, aliases and hotkeys.

File shelf

A small floating window that accepts dropped files and gives them back. Drag files in from Finder, from a browser download bar, from anywhere that drags a file. Drag them out into the app that finally wants them.

It is for the gap between finding a file and knowing where it goes: attach three things to an email that live in three different folders, without a Finder window for each.

The shelf remembers what is on it between launches, and files that have moved or been deleted drop off quietly. Reveal opens all of them in Finder at once, Clear empties the shelf without touching the files.

Camera preview

A floating webcam window, sized four by three and resizable. For checking your framing and your background before a call rather than during it.

It asks for camera permission the first time, and holds the camera only while the window is open. If you said no once, macOS will not ask again: turn Cleat back on in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Camera.

Settings › Extras has the rest. Pick which camera to use, including a Continuity camera or a USB one, and Cleat lists whatever macOS can see. Mirroring is on by default because it is easier to frame yourself in; turn it off to see what the call sees. Float above other windows decides whether the preview sits over full-screen apps or behaves like a normal window. The width slider sets the size, and dragging the window’s corner updates it.

Sorting the grid

The control at the top right of All Apps sorts by name, by how much you use each app (the same counts the palette ranks with), or by category, which reads the type each app declares for the App Store and puts a small header above each group. Pinned apps lead the name order. The choice sticks.