Drag a file.Tap a key.Drop it on the wheel.

See it in action

How to use DragWheel and what it can do for you, in under two minutes: the wheel, Float, sticky notes, photo and PDF editing, Send to phone, and who it's for.

How it works

DragWheel sits in the system tray. You keep dragging files the way you already do; the wheel only shows up when you ask for it.

1. Drag a file

   Pick up any file or folder in File Explorer or on the desktop, and keep holding the mouse button.

2. Tap a key

   Shift opens Convert, Ctrl opens Tools, Alt opens Actions. Scrolling the mouse wheel works too.

3. Drop it on a slice

   The result is saved next to the original. Drop in the middle to cancel; the original is never changed.

Not dragging? Select files and press Ctrl + Alt + Space, or right-click and choose DragWheel.

Three wheels, one gesture

Each wheel only shows what makes sense for the file you're holding, in a single ring.

New in 1.2.2

Read QR codes straight off your screen, turn photos of documents into clean scans, and Send to phone redone with new ways to share. Full changelog.

Read QR code on screen

Every QR code on your screens lights up. Click one to open the link, copy the text or copy the Wi-Fi password. Pictures get a Read QR code action too, all offline.

Fix alignment

A document scanner for photos: DragWheel finds the page, straightens it and evens out the light. Drag the corners with a magnifier, rotate, and pick Clean, Original, Black & white or Grayscale with a live preview.

Link from this PC

Send a file to any phone on any network, straight from your PC through a free Cloudflare tunnel. Nothing is uploaded and the link ends when you stop sharing.

Cloud link

Share through your own OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Dropbox or Box: the link works even when your PC is off, and the copy is removed when its time is up.

Send to phone, redone

A cleaner window with icons, Back to pick another way, a QR code with a loading wheel, the same QR code again for a file that's already shared, and a choice of file services.

Smoother with a video playing

Settings and Send to phone open without making a Float stutter, Reopen on the Float menu, and videos paused overnight play again properly.

Also in 1.2.1

Your keys, your way: any key or combination opens a wheel, PDF to Word keeps the look of the page, and a fresh Settings.

Any key, any way

Give each wheel any key or combination, a mouse side button, or a key + click like Ctrl + right click. Open it while dragging, on the file under the mouse, or on the files you selected.

PDF to Word that looks the same

Every line stays where it was, in the same font and size, tables become real Word tables, and Arabic is proper right-to-left text you can edit.

File preview

Peek at PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, e-books and more while you drag, with a press or only while you hold the key.

New Settings

Clear pages down the side, every option an on/off switch, and Settings Config to export, import or restore defaults.

Six new themes

Midnight, Ocean, Forest, Grape, Rose and Sand, each with its own accent colour, next to Light and Dark.

Wheel sounds

Nine sound styles: Classic, Soft, Glass, Bubble, Mechanical, Retro, Velvet, Crystal and Pulse, each with its own open, close, click and choose sounds. Listen before you pick, and set the volume.

Wheel animations

Different styles for opening and closing, six new ones (Zoom, Pop, Drop, Rise, Flip and Swirl), and a speed slider.

Float

Save only the links you want, Recently played, playback speed from 0.5× to 2×, and drag a web page or paste a file to play it.

Your own slices

Open files in any app from the wheel by picking the app. Auto Convert can overwrite the original, and Unblock clears Windows' download warning from files.

Also in 1.2

The biggest update yet: PDF signing, a mini player for YouTube links, sending files to your phone, and a wheel you can make your own.

PDF tools

Sign with a drawn or dropped signature on one page, every page or a range. Arrange pages by dragging, watermark with a live preview, page numbers, grayscale, unlock.

Float, the mini player

Copy a YouTube link and play it on top of your work, live streams included. Quality menu, repeat and loop, saved links, subtitles and keyboard media keys.

Send to phone

Quick Share, Bluetooth, or a temporary internet link with a QR code that lasts 5 minutes to 72 hours.

Make it yours

Choose and reorder slices with a live preview, save presets and chains, add your own commands, and choose where results go.

Everyday

Recent results, a queue for many files, Undo, watch folders, a command line, quick preview with Space, wheel animations and sounds.

Comics, fonts and more

CBR and CBZ comics, font conversion and install, subtitles in and out of videos, split and join big files, password-protected ZIP and 7Z.

Popular conversions on Windows

The things people do most with DragWheel, each one drag, tap and drop. Everything stays on your PC.

• Convert HEIC to JPG
• PDF to Word (DOCX)
• MP4 to MP3
• WebP to PNG or JPG
• Compress a video
• Compress a PDF
• Merge PDFs
• Sign a PDF
• Remove an image background
• Scan a document from a photo
• Read a QR code on screen
• Word or PowerPoint to PDF
• Excel to CSV
• MOV to MP4
• Video to GIF
• Make a ringtone
• Transcribe a video to subtitles
• Zip or 7Z a folder
• Send a file to your phone

DragWheel for Browser

A free extension for Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox. Right-click any video, song or link and choose Play in DragWheel Float, or right-click a picture and save it as PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF, ICO, PDF and more. The work is done by DragWheel on your PC, so install DragWheel for Windows first.

1. Install DragWheel

   Version 1.2.3 or newer, and open it once. It connects the extension by itself.

2. Add the extension

   Firefox Add-ons for Firefox. Chrome, Edge and Brave: coming soon to the Chrome Web Store (until then: DragWheel tray icon → Add DragWheel to your browser…).

3. Right-click and go

   Play in Float, or save pictures in any format. The toolbar button plays the page you're on.

Get it for Firefox

Nothing is collected or uploaded. See the extension's privacy policy.

What it converts

Everything runs on your PC with built-in ffmpeg, MuPDF and Pillow. No account, no upload, no telemetry.

Images

To PNG, JPG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, TIFF, BMP, GIF, ICO, TGA, JPEG 2000, ICNS, PDF. Opens PSD, SVG, DDS, QOI and more. Fix alignment of document photos, remove backgrounds, read QR codes.

Video

To MP4, MP4 H.265, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, WMV, GIF, or MP3 and M4A audio. Compress, trim, 720p, mute, snapshot, merge.

Audio

To MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, Opus, AIFF, WMA, AC3. Trim, normalize, mono, fade, merge.

PDF

To DOCX, PNG, JPG, TXT, Markdown, HTML, CBZ. Sign, arrange pages, watermark, page numbers, compress, split, extract, password-protect, merge.

Office files

Documents, slides and spreadsheets to PDF and each other, plus CSV, JSON and Markdown tables.

Archives and folders

To ZIP, 7Z, RAR, TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, TAR.XZ, or extract them.

Subtitles, e-books and comics

SRT, VTT and ASS subtitles, added to or taken out of videos; EPUB, MOBI, FB2 and XPS to PDF, text or images; CBR, CBZ and CB7 comics to PDF and back.

Fonts

TTF, OTF, WOFF and WOFF2 to each other, or install a font with one drop.

File actions

Copy, move, copy path, rename in bulk, checksum, shred, send to phone (Quick Share, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, internet, cloud link), and Float: pin a file or play a link on top of every window.

Word, PowerPoint and Excel conversions use Microsoft Office if it's installed, otherwise LibreOffice. Creating RAR files needs WinRAR.