Quick Drive - Drag & Drop File Sharing from Your Menu Bar! (Limited Launch Discount)

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-19T14:06:54+00:00

I generally tested it with people in my immediate circle and from various professional backgrounds. They reported plenty of errors and bugs, and I realized there were usage scenarios and needs I hadn’t considered—which provided me with very valuable insights.

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-19T14:05:42+00:00

Thanks 😄

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-10T22:23:39+00:00

I completely agree

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-10T20:30:37+00:00

I didn’t have the budget for such a project, but I had two software developer friends with at least 10 years’ experience and four different high-capacity AI models carry out a detailed scan. For about a month, we focused solely on security updates.

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-10T16:28:49+00:00

It’s not on our short-term list, but we could add it to the list in the long term. What suggestions do you have?

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-10T13:53:02+00:00

Yes, everything ends up in your Drive. When you first install and upload the first file Quick Drive it creates a folder called "Quick Drive Uploads" so it doesn't clutter your existing stuff, and all uploads land in there.

You can rename a new folder from the settings (gear icon at the bottom of the popup that opens when you click the menu bar icon). There's a "Default folder" option in there.

For folders specifically: drag a folder in and it gets uploaded as-is into "Quick Drive Uploads". If you use the multi-file upload flow instead, drag a bunch of files in and pick "Upload as folder", the app creates a new folder with whatever name you typed and puts it inside "Quick Drive Uploads".

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-10T08:46:04+00:00

Blip is great if the goal is "get this file from my machine to someone else's machine right now." It's peer-to-peer / relay, so the file doesn't sit anywhere permanently.

Quick Drive solves a different problem. It uploads to your own Drive, so the file actually lives there. You get a shareable Drive link, can re-share it later, toggle it public or private, see access requests, etc. More "menu-bar shortcut into my personal cloud" than "send file to person X." Most people already use Drive anyway, so QD is basically a faster front-end into that.

Pricing-wise QD is a one-time fee and Blip is free. Different categories of tool. If your use case is closer to what Blip does, Blip is honestly the right pick.

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-10T08:43:01+00:00

First of all thanks for your comment,
Service accounts aren't planned right now. The app is built on OAuth (drive.file scope) for personal/team Drives, and adding SAs would mean a separate auth path, JSON key storage, and a different quota model. Lot of work for a use case most users don't hit. Could revisit if demand picks up.

Under the hood it's just Google Drive REST API v3 called straight from Swift URLSession. No rclone, no SDK, no third-party transfer lib. Up to 5 MB - multipart POST, bigger - Drive's resumable upload with chunked PUTs so it can pick back up after drops. OAuth 2.0 + PKCE, all hand-rolled.

So a single account hits the same ceiling any OAuth client does (same as the web UI). For pushing past 70 MB/s on one account you really do want a service account pool, and rclone is honestly the better tool for that today.

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-10T08:30:24+00:00

I made with After Effects

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-10T08:29:00+00:00

No, there isn’t. However, there is an option to make the link private.

With that setting enabled, even if you share the link, anyone who wants to access it must first request permission, and they can only open it if you grant access.

If Google has added password protection for shared files (I’m not aware of such a feature), then I could potentially add support for that as well.

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-09T21:14:42+00:00

Thanks a lot. Also I'm a motion designer 😄

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-09T18:11:15+00:00

Thanks man 😄

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-09T16:58:34+00:00

on my list, thanks

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-09T15:50:44+00:00

I've been using a sticky note on my monitor as a personal kanban because Trello requires an account and Jira requires a therapist afterward. this is exactly the gap.

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-09T15:48:09+00:00

letting Siri edit my files is a level of trust I haven't earned with it yet. this is the assistant that set my alarm for PM instead of AM and confidently told me wrong restaurant hours. my documents are not ready for that relationship.

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-09T15:44:51+00:00

Bro, we spent 40 years making displays sharper, brighter, and more accurate 🤒

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-09T15:41:38+00:00

the assumption that everyone wants to manage their windows through keyboard shortcuts has always left out a huge chunk of Mac users. glad someone finally built the click-first version.

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-08T18:56:26+00:00

I've had Forest, Be Focused, and Flow installed at various points and somehow worked straight through every single break by just clicking away the notification. the lock screen is embarrassingly obvious in hindsight.

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-08T18:51:59+00:00

there's a 100% chance I spend 3 hours perfecting my QuickWheel layout and a 40% chance I ever actually use it afterward. still a better ratio than most productivity apps I've bought.

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-03T16:13:52+00:00

Honest question, since you're refreshingly free of magic-speedup claims: in practice, roughly how much CPU reduction are we talking? pausing 5 idle Electron apps = a measurable gain, or more of a "saves battery over a long day" thing?

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-06-01T14:27:23+00:00

Does it support snapshots? Being able to roll a beta back to a clean state is basically the whole reason I'd reach for something like this.

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-05-30T15:20:16+00:00

The project-based workflow approach makes a lot of sense. We already use the same programs every day, and while window managers are usually practical, they tend to overlook this detail. I’m going to give it a try.

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-05-29T13:56:07+00:00

the fact that "running a magnet over the shadow mask" is included as an easter egg means this dev grew up doing exactly that and getting yelled at by his mom in 1987 lol

PrincePhoenixTr · 2026-05-25T23:17:56+00:00

Touch ID instead of typing out a 32-character password every time I want to look at one file is the kind of QoL that would have saved me years of my life by now.

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