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BentoSort
Sort your Mac files by hand into a grid of boxes
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Sort your Mac files by hand into a grid of boxes
2 followers
BentoSort is a Mac window with a grid of boxes. Each box points to a folder, Photos, the Trash, Finder tags or an app. Drag files onto a box: it moves, copies, tags or opens them. Nothing sorts on its own: you pick every file, the box decides where it lands.
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Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentIsolated compute, persistent state and a real filesystem
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Joseph, a solo developer from Germany. BentoSort is my own app, and it just came out on the Mac App Store.
Why I built it: some files I want to sort myself. Invoices, scans, client work, photos for a project. I don't want a rule moving them while I'm not looking. But dragging through Finder windows to the same ten folders gets old fast.
How it works: BentoSort is a window with a grid of boxes. Each box points to one place: a folder (also on an external drive or a network share), Photos or one album, the Trash, Finder tags, a share service or an app. Drag files onto a box, and it moves, copies, tags, shares or opens them.
Each folder box has its own rules:
• Move or Copy
• Name clash: keep both, ask, replace or skip
• Date subfolders, by the day of the drop or the file's creation date
• Finder tags added on the way in
Handled with care:
• On a move across drives, the original is deleted only after the copy is checked for the same files and sizes.
• Folder, tags-only and Trash drops have Undo and Redo. A drop log lists what went where.
• Save a grid as a tray, and open each tray in its own window.
• No account, no analytics, no tracking.
What it does not do, on purpose: it never watches folders, never sorts on its own and never looks inside files to decide where they go.
One small detail: after a drop, a pair of chopsticks sets the file into its box. With Reduce Motion on, a simple checkmark shows instead.
A short tutorial:
Pay once on the Mac App Store, no subscription, no in-app purchases. Needs macOS 26 or later. I read every comment, so tell me what is missing.