The switching tax
Navigating isn't
the work.
A Finder window. Three folders deep. Wrong one. Then the same trip again in the terminal. Every project you own sits behind that small, repeated cost. Shipyard removes the trip.
Shipyard for macOS
Stop living
in Finder.
Every project you're building waits in your MacBook's notch. Hover to open the shelf,
click a project, or right-click into Terminal, Codex, or Claude Code —
already in the right directory. Seconds, instead of three folders deep and a cd.
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.
A working shelf, adapted for touch. Drag directly, or tap for exact placement.
Shipyard is a Mac app. Rearrange the shelf below to get the idea —
then open this page on your Mac, where the real thing lives in your notch.
Drag a folder up into the shelf to pin it Drag a folder into the shelf, or tap to pin it at the end
Hover the notch to open
Drag a project to reorder
Drag out to unpin
Right-click for Terminal, Codex, Claude
Drag to reorder · drag out to unpin
Tap for exact placement · hold for actions
Navigating isn't
Instantly recognisable.
Every project wears its own icon. Spot the one you want without reading a single folder name.
One gesture in.
Click to open the folder, or right-click straight into Terminal, Codex, or Claude Code. Always in the right directory.
Ready when you are.
Save a start command once. Right-click the project → Run start command — npm run dev (or whatever you saved), already in that folder.
Just drag it over.
Drop a folder on the shelf to pin it. Or type ship add . where you already are.
Your shelf, your order.
Drag to arrange. Drag away to unpin from the shelf — the project stays on disk, and can reappear under Recent.
Stays on your Mac.
Local only. The app doesn't phone home. No account, no sync.
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
# later: right-click web-app on the shelf → Run start command
~ $ ship list
* api-gateway ~/code/api-gateway
* web-app ~/code/web-app npm run dev
* design-system ~/code/design-system
Get back to the project.
Free, native, and about a megabyte. Best on a notched MacBook.
Download ShipyardShipyard isn't notarized yet — on first launch, right-click the app and choose Open to get past Gatekeeper.