Observed arrival · 2026-10-26

Feather Drive, the Mac disk that weighs nothing

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Editorial interest 78/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A Mac app for placing Google Drive and Dropbox files in Finder as zero-byte placeholders that fetch content when opened.

Landing page captured for the 2026-10-26 issue.

For: Mac users with large cloud-stored media libraries
Worth noticing: The page specifies 4 MiB AES-GCM encrypted segments and says keys stay in the macOS Keychain.

Field notes

The page lays out a three-step setup: install the Mac app, sign in with Google, then drag files into a Feather Drive folder in Finder. It says only files placed in that drive are visible to the app. Its technical notes specify 4 MiB AES-GCM encrypted segments, with keys stored in the macOS Keychain; supported cloud accounts named are Google Drive and Dropbox.

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