Edge Drop Guides

Screen edges are the easiest targets to hit with a mouse. How Edge Drop uses that for its hover shelf, with the real trigger sizes, timings and settings.

How to choose Edge Drop's Left, Right or Top edge, including multiple monitors, portrait screens and taskbars, and the settings that stop accidental opens.

What Edge Drop doesn't do, from sync and scripting to capture, macOS and archive search, and which tool to use instead for each job.

Install Edge Drop from GitHub or the Microsoft Store, find the shelf on first launch, and check that copying, pasting and dragging all work.

The core Edge Drop moves in ten minutes: open the shelf, paste with a click, drag images and files out, pin what you reuse, and find old copies with search.

Move the Edge Drop shelf from the left edge to the right edge or the top of the screen, from Settings or the tray menu, and tune the trigger for its new spot.

Choose which display the Edge Drop shelf lives on, what happens when you dock or unplug a monitor, and which edge to use on dual and ultrawide setups.

Edge Drop has no hover-delay slider. Here is how to make the shelf easier or harder to open with the four Trigger Zone settings on the Position tab.

Stop the Edge Drop shelf opening at the screen edge. Turn off Hover Activation and open the shelf only with Alt+C or your own shortcut.

Replace Edge Drop's default Alt+C shortcut with your own key combination, pick one that won't clash, and fix a shortcut that stops working.

Hover over a card and click its pin icon to keep it in Edge Drop's Pinned section. Here is what pins survive, how to unpin, and what to pin.

Type in the Search history box on the Edge Drop shelf to find text, links, colours and file names. What search matches, what it skips, and why.

Click a filter tab on the Edge Drop shelf to show only text, links, images, files or colour codes. What each tab includes and how filters work with search.

Drag one image or file card onto another to make an Edge Drop stack of up to 10 items, and ungroup it with the minus button. Text can't be stacked.

Drag image and file cards from the Edge Drop shelf straight into Explorer, chat, email or Photoshop. What each app receives, and what to do when a drop fails.

Click a card on the Edge Drop shelf and it pastes straight into the app you were typing in. How it keeps your focus, and what to do when a paste doesn't land.

Turn on Incognito mode to stop Edge Drop recording what you copy. It stays on until you turn it off, even after a restart, and doesn't erase existing history.

Set Edge Drop to delete unpinned clips after 1 hour, 6 hours, 24 hours or 7 days, and see how the timer works alongside pins and history capacity.

Turn on Clear unpinned on restart and Edge Drop empties its history every time it starts, keeping only your pinned items. Here is how and when to use it.

Edge Drop's Fullscreen Protection pauses hover-to-open while Windows reports a fullscreen game or video. Here is how it works and what to do if it misses.

Change Edge Drop's interface language in the Behaviour tab, choose from 31 languages or follow Windows, and see how Arabic, Persian and Hebrew switch to RTL.

The GitHub build of Edge Drop updates itself from GitHub Releases in Automatic, Notify me or Off mode. The Microsoft Store build is updated by the Store.

Remove Edge Drop from Windows in a few minutes, then check for its history folder and startup entry so nothing is left behind, for GitHub and Store builds.

Edge Drop keeps its history, images and settings in %APPDATA% on your PC. Here is every file, what is encrypted, and how to back it up or wipe it.

Edge Drop starts with Windows by default. Turn Launch at login on or off in the Behaviour tab, or manage it from Windows' Startup apps list.

Open Edge Drop's preview flyout to read a long clip in full, see a full-size image, open a link, or pick and paste files from a stack.

Copied links show up in Edge Drop as link cards. Use the open-link button to launch them in your default browser, or click the card to paste the URL.

Edge Drop skips clipboard copies marked private by Windows flags and known password-manager formats, so they paste normally but never land in its history.

Every Edge Drop setting across the Behaviour, Position and Appearance tabs, with defaults, plus how to turn off sound effects and change text size.

Where Edge Drop's release notes live, how the What's New link in Settings works, what changed in recent versions, and how to check which version you have.

Where to report an Edge Drop bug, the details that make it fixable (version, build, Windows version, display setup) and a template you can copy.

Clone Edge Drop, install with npm, run it in dev mode, and build your own NSIS installer, with the real npm scripts, the project layout and common errors.

Edge Drop is free with no paid tier. Here's how to donate through Ko-fi or UPI, where the money goes, and how to help without paying anything.

Both Edge Drop builds are the same free app. The difference is how they install and update. Here is which one to pick, and how to switch between them.

Edge Drop (edgedrop.app) is a free, open-source clipboard shelf for Windows that opens from the screen edge. What it does, what it doesn't, and who it suits.

Edge Drop 0.3.1 added an emoji picker to the shelf. How it works, how it differs from the Windows Win+. panel, and what else changed in that release.

Edge Drop has no export, import or sync, and its history index is encrypted to your Windows account. What you can back up, and how to rebuild your pins on a new PC.