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DragShift

Your files. A little more flow.
Convert, resize, annotate and organize files with a glass-style desktop dial.

Ubuntu · Global desktop gestures require X11 · Repository access is required to view the source.

DRAGSHIFT IN MOTION

See the flow.

Real app recordings. Automatically looping, silently.

REAL SCREEN RECORDING17 sec

Shift-drag in action

Switch between format and editing tools directly from Files.

REAL SCREEN RECORDING10 sec

ZIP tools, right there

The dial adapts to a ZIP file with archive actions.

DragShift studio with its radial format picker

A workspace for your files

Pick a format, choose an editing tool, or return to recent results.

Floating DragShift tools dial with Annotate selected

Tools, one gesture away

Drag with Shift for formats; add Ctrl for the tools dial. Customize the order and modifier.

Actual completed DragShift WEBP conversion with resize controls

Customize. Convert. Keep the original.

Adjust size and quality, preview the result, and save a separate converted file.

Actual annotation editor showing a saved landscape with a drawn arrow

Put your point on the page

Pen, arrows, boxes, highlights and text, with quick colors and undo/redo.

More than conversion

  • Image formats, PDF and DOCX conversion
  • Exact resizing, compression and watermarks
  • PDF merge, split, rotation and page extraction
  • Local English/Hindi OCR with Tesseract
  • ZIP creation and selective extraction
  • Saved workflows and batch cancellation

Made for local work

Converted results save beside their source with a _CONV suffix. Originals stay intact, and existing outputs get unique names.

The app lives in the tray between tasks. The studio provides file selection and tools even when global desktop gestures are unavailable.

These are real app captures. The conversion and annotation screenshots were captured after saving generated demonstration files.