KDE Plasma 6
Linux, on Wayland. Where McGyver started.
After the first start, press Set up in its settings, so the wheel opens the moment you press Shift during a drag.
Download for LinuxDrag a file. Hold Shift. Pick a wedge.
McGyver opens a wheel around your pointer while you drag files. Drop them on a wedge: pictures change format, videos shrink, PDFs turn into Word files, folders get zipped. Conversions run on your computer, not in a cloud.
A demo: nothing leaves this page, and no file is touched. Drag a file onto the space and hold Shift, or just click one.
One wheel, seven modes
The ring around the centre switches between them. Stop on a slice, or move along the ring into it.
With files
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Convert
The wheel opens on Convert. Aim at a format and let go: holiday.webp lands next to holiday.jpg. Pictures, video, audio, PDFs, Office files, archives and subtitles each get their own list.
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Tools
Compress, trim, mute or rotate a video, or pull stills out of it. Pictures resize, crop and lose their EXIF; PDFs split and rotate, and two or more merge into one.
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Actions
Zip it, copy or move it somewhere, copy its path, open a terminal there, or send it to your phone, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack or Teams.
Without files
Hold Shift on its own for a moment and the wheel is for the computer instead.
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Apps
What is open, the one you used last on top, then the apps you picked in the settings. Alt+Tab, in a circle.
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Media
Whatever is playing: play or pause, next, previous, repeat, shuffle, and the player itself.
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Everyday
Keyboard layout, the computer’s language, volume, brightness, screenshots, screen recording, and how busy the computer is.
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System
Lock, Dark Mode, Stay Awake, the microphone, the trash and sleep. Try Dark Mode: this page goes dark with it.
What each file gets
The wheel only offers what the files in your hand can become. A file already in a format skips it; a mode with nothing to offer has no slice.
| File | Convert to | Tools |
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| Pictures JPEG, PNG, HEIC, camera RAW, PSD, SVG… | JPG · PNG · WEBP · HEIC · AVIF · TIFF · GIF · BMP · ICO · PDF | Compress · Resize · Crop · Rotate · Strip EXIF |
| Video needs FFmpeg | MP4 · MOV · MKV · WEBM · GIF · MP3 | Compress · Trim · Mute · Rotate · Frames |
| Audio needs FFmpeg | MP3 · M4A · WAV · FLAC · OGG · OPUS · AIFF | Trim · Normalize · Compress · Merge |
| DOCX · PPTX · XLSX · JPG · PNG · EPUB · TXT · MD | Compress · Split · Rotate · Merge | |
| Documents DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF | PDF · DOCX · ODT · RTF · HTML · TXT · MD | Merge |
| Spreadsheets XLSX, XLS, ODS, CSV | PDF · XLSX · CSV · TSV · HTML · MD | Merge |
| Slides PPTX; PPT and ODP to MD | PDF · PPTX · TXT · MD | Compress |
| Archives ZIP, 7Z, RAR, TAR… | Unzip · ZIP · 7Z · TAR.GZ · TAR.XZ · TAR.ZST · TAR.BZ2 · TAR | — |
| Compressed files GZ, XZ, ZST, BZ2, LZ4 | Unzip · GZ · XZ · ZST · BZ2 · LZ4 · ZIP · 7Z | — |
| Subtitles SRT, VTT | VTT · SRT · TXT | Shift by half a second or a second |
| Folders | ZIP · 7Z · TAR.GZ · TAR.XZ · TAR.ZST · TAR.BZ2 · TAR | Flatten |
Every file and folder also gets Actions: Zip, Copy, Cut, Copy To, Move To, Copy Path, Terminal and Share. Merge appears once two or more files are in hand. HEIC and AVIF appear where the computer’s libheif can write them.
Get McGyver
One download, then it waits in the tray or the menu bar until you hold Shift.
macOS
macOS 11 or later. One app for Apple Silicon and Intel.
In testing on Apple Silicon. It isn’t notarized yet: Control-click it in Applications and choose Open the first time.
Download for MacWindows
Windows 10 and 11, on x64 and ARM64 PCs.
A first port, not yet run on a real Windows machine. SmartScreen asks once: More info, then Run anyway.
Download for WindowsMade by one person, in Gaziantep.
McGyver is built by Ferdi ÜNAL. If it saves you a few clicks a day, sponsoring it keeps the work going.