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Turfs

Use the desktop to keep content from across your Mac accessible and organized in defined areas — folder-backed, tag-backed, or virtual — or simply keep it clutter-free.

One turf, five folders. Tabs let a single turf hold an entire project — manuscript, notes, inspiration, submissions — instead of spreading it across the desktop. The wallpaper shows through, so it sits in the desktop rather than on top of it.

Cost / License

  • Pay once
  • Proprietary

Platforms

  • Mac
Turfs can be small. This one holds the three files today actually needs and nothing else. Click the title and it rolls up to a single line.
A folder-backed turf showing its contents as previews. Point a turf at a real folder and whatever is in the folder is in the turf — and the other way around. Supports Quicklook.
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Tabs don't have to be folders in a project. Here they're stages of work, and the turf takes its own color so a glance is enough.
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What is Turfs?

Turfs replaces the Mac desktop’s icon layer with one you control. Create labelled areas — turfs — anywhere on the desktop, and put things in them.

A turf can be backed by a real folder, so the turf and the folder stay in step in both directions. Or by a Finder tag, so it gathers anything on the Mac carrying that tag. Or by nothing at all, holding whatever you drop in without moving a single file on disk.

The wallpaper shows through, so a turf looks like part of the desktop rather than a window sitting on top of it. Turfs stay visible when you show the desktop, and you choose in Settings what Mission Control does with them.

Click a turf’s title to roll it up to one line, and again to bring it back. Double-click a folder inside a turf to browse it in place, with no Finder window and the turf staying where it is. Right-click any folder in Finder and choose Create Desktop Turf.

Quit Turfs and the desktop returns exactly as it was. Nothing is moved, and nothing is locked in.

10-day trial, no card and no account required. $29 once after that.