Loft — macOS menu bar S3 uploader

Features

Everything you need, nothing you don't.

Drag & Drop

Drop any file or folder onto the menu bar popover. Folders are zipped automatically before upload.

Right-click in Finder

Select files, open Quick Actions, pick a pane. One "Upload to Loft" entry per pane, kept in sync with your settings. No drag needed.

Four TTL Panes

Private, 1 Day, 30 Days, Public. TTL panes use S3 lifecycle tags so files expire without cleanup scripts.

Fast Multipart

Files above 5 MB switch to multipart upload automatically — 8 MB chunks, 4 concurrent parts.

H.265 Video Compression

Large screen recordings are re-encoded on the Apple Silicon media engine before upload. Pick High quality, Balanced, Smallest file, or Fastest.

Any S3 Endpoint

Works with AWS, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, MinIO, and DigitalOcean Spaces via a custom endpoint field.

How it works

Three steps, zero friction.

Drag your file

Click the Loft icon in the menu bar to reveal the popover, then drag any file or folder from Finder onto it. Or skip the drag: right-click the file and pick a pane under Quick Actions.

Drop on a pane

Choose how long the link should live — Private, 1 Day, 30 Days, or Public — and release the file.

URL is copied

Upload completes, a system notification appears, and the shareable URL lands on your clipboard automatically.

Setup

Ready in minutes.

You need an S3 bucket with lifecycle rules for the TTL panes, and a narrow IAM policy scoped to that bucket. The setup guides walk through everything — bucket creation, lifecycle rules, CORS, and the exact policy JSON.

Setup guide README on GitHub