Frequently asked questions

Yes. On Macs with a physical notch, Ledge fuses with it. On Macs without one — including every Intel model — it attaches a slim, opaque-black Top Handle to the top edge. It stays compact when idle and expands into the same solid-black shelf. The solid finish keeps the handle crisp over the menu bar.

macOS 14 Sonoma or newer. One universal build runs on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

The public beta is completely free — no account, no trial timer, no subscription. A paid one-time license is planned for version 1.0, and everyone on the beta will get a launch discount.

Shelf metadata and Ledge-managed images stay in ~/Library/Application Support/Ledge. Before the first meeting recording, you choose its save folder; Ledge remembers that location and never silently falls back to Music. Files and folders you add remain at their original paths. Sparkle checks a GitHub Pages appcast and retrieves updates from GitHub Releases, but Ledge sends no app-usage telemetry.

Correct. Clipboard capture (which is off by default) hard-blocks the concealed, transient, and auto-generated pasteboard types that 1Password and other password managers use. That content is never read, never stored.

Press Control + Option + L while any window is frontmost, and it folds into the island with a snapshot thumbnail. Click the card — or press Control + Option + Shift + L — and the window comes back. Window parking needs Accessibility permission; Ledge walks you through it the first time.

Ledge mixes Mac system audio and your microphone into one local AAC .m4a file in the folder you choose before the first recording. It registers only an audio output with ScreenCaptureKit, so it does not save screen frames or video. macOS asks for Screen Recording permission to provide system audio and Microphone permission for your mic.

Pinned items do not expire and Clear leaves them in place. The card X, Command + Delete, bulk removal, and stack removal will not delete a pinned item. Unpin it first when you really want to remove it.

Nothing. Ledge stores references, not copies — your originals never move. Delete the app and the shelf data in Application Support, and everything else stays exactly where it was.

The beta is signed but not yet notarized with Apple, so Gatekeeper asks for one extra confirmation: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Notarization is planned before the paid release.