Shipyard for macOS

Stop living
in Finder.

Every project you're building waits in your MacBook's notch. Reach up, click once, and Claude Code, Codex, or a terminal is already running inside it — seconds, instead of three folders deep and a cd.

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Free · Apple silicon & Intel · macOS 14 or later

Reach up. Grab a project.

A working shelf, right here in the page. Hover the notch to open it.

Drag a folder up into the shelf to pin it

Hover the notch to open Drag a project to reorder Drag out to remove Right-click for actions

The switching tax

Navigating is the
work you don't get paid for.

Finder window, three folders deep, wrong one, back out, try again — then the same trip in the terminal. Every project you own sits behind that same small, repeated cost. Shipyard removes the trip entirely: reach for the notch, and everything you're building is already there.

Recognise it, don't read it

Shipyard finds each project's real icon — app icon, logo, favicon — so you pick it out by sight instead of scanning a list of near-identical folder names.

Open it where you work

One click opens the folder. Right-click goes straight to Terminal or iTerm2, Codex, Claude Code, or Finder — already in the right directory.

Start the server too

Save a launch command per project. Open web-app in the terminal and npm run dev is already running by the time you look at it.

Adding is a drag

Drop a folder from Finder anywhere on the shelf and a dashed slot shows where it lands. Or run ship add . from the project you're already in.

Keep it in order

Drag to reorder so the projects you touch daily stay to hand. Drag one off the shelf and it's gone from view without being deleted.

Yours alone

A local JSON file and nothing else. No account, no sync, no telemetry — and it can hide itself from screen sharing.

Pin it from where you already are.

You're in the project already. ship add . and it's on the shelf — no dragging, no dialog.

~/code/api-gateway $ ship add .
Pinned api-gateway to the shelf

# save the command this project always starts with
~/code/web-app $ ship add . --command "npm run dev"
Pinned web-app · start command saved

# from now on, opening web-app in the terminal boots the server
~ $ ship list
* api-gateway    ~/code/api-gateway
* web-app        ~/code/web-app    npm run dev
* design-system  ~/code/design-system

Get your day back.

Free, native, and about a megabyte.

Download Shipyard

Shipyard isn't notarized yet — on first launch, right-click the app and choose Open to get past Gatekeeper.

Stop livingin Finder.