Tangerine

Tangerine positions itself as a zero-click converter for macOS, built around the idea that format conversion should not require opening an app, hunting through menus, or uploading anything. The entire interaction is a drag: you pick up a file in Finder, and a radial menu appears under the cursor with options keyed to modifier keys.

The core mechanic is the gesture wheel. Start dragging a file and tap Shift to reveal conversion targets, Command to expose editing tools such as compress, crop, trim, split, and merge, or Control for file actions including AirDrop, Float, Copy, Move, Copy Path, and Terminal. The wheel stays open until you drop, and the key bindings can be reassigned in Settings.

Coverage spans images (JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, TIFF, AVIF, BMP), audio (MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, Opus, AIFF, WMA), video (MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, WMV, GIF), PDF to DOCX, Pages, PPTX, XLSX, JPG, PNG, EPUB, TXT, and Markdown, plus documents, slides, spreadsheets, EPUB, subtitles, and archives. PDF conversion handles all pages with images at 300 DPI, and SVG is accepted as input only.

It suits Mac users who convert files often enough to resent the friction of dedicated converter apps, especially designers, writers, and developers working inside Finder all day. File actions work on folders and mixed selections and do not consume the conversion allowance, which matters if you plan to use the wheel mainly as a launcher.

A sensible approach is to try the demo video and free trial first, then