Copy anything.
Pick what happens next.
Copy text in any app — or hold ⌥⇧D and just talk — and a popup appears at your cursor: translate, fix, and more with Apple Intelligence, right on your Mac. Every copy, and any transcript you keep, lands in a private, searchable history.
Small app. Sharp tools.
copy a screenshot → pull every word out of it, on your Mac
Translate
English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese — at your cursor, in about a second, without opening a browser tab.
Fix
Spelling, grammar, punctuation — corrected in place. Never rewrites your meaning, never drops a sentence.
Organize
Turn a stream of consciousness into tidy paragraphs and bullet points before anyone else reads it.
Extract text from images
Copy a screenshot and pull every word out of it — error dialogs, slides, Wi-Fi passwords. On-device Vision OCR.
Screenshot anything
One hotkey opens the system crosshair. The capture lands in Pickclip: extract its text, or file it away.
Save by saying where
Type “the downloads folder” and your screenshot is filed there. Pickclip finds the folder for you.
Don’t type the next paragraph. Say it.
Hold ⌥⇧D in any app and a live transcript streams into a popup at your cursor. Apple’s on-device speech engine does the listening — no audio and no text leaves your Mac, and there’s no meter counting your words.
the transcript streams in as you speak — then you pick where it lands
Hold to talk, or press to toggle
Hold it like a walkie-talkie for a one-line reply, or press once and press again for a paragraph. Brush the key by accident and it keeps recording rather than handing you two seconds of nothing.
A live transcript at your cursor
No window to open and no app to switch to — the words appear where you were already typing, and the popup stays up if you click into another window mid-sentence.
Your vocabulary, taught on-device
Names, product names, ticket ids — the words every recognizer mangles. Nudge it with vocabulary words, or pin an exact heard → written rule. Your dictionary never leaves the Mac either.
The transcript flows into your actions
Copy it, keep it as a clip, send it to Notes, or write it to a file. Or set up the steps once: speak a rough thought, Fix it, and have it pasted back into the app you were in.
See how dictation works → — the shortcuts, the personal dictionary, and everywhere a transcript can go.
Build your own actions — in plain English.
Name a workflow and describe what it should do. Pickclip figures out whether it's a job for AI or for a tiny script it writes for you — then it shows up in your popup, right under the built-ins.
Language & style
“Rewrite this as a polite email.” “Summarize in one line.” “Make it sound confident.” Anything about tone or meaning runs on the same private, on-device model as the built-ins.
Exact & repeatable
For the things AI fumbles — dates, numbers, patterns. Pickclip writes a small script, shows it to you to approve, then runs it locally in a sandbox: instant, exact, and identical every time. No AI at run time.
Chain them, too: an action sequence names an ordered run of the actions you already have — “strip the tracking parameters, then open it in the browser” — each step feeding the next, one click for the whole thing.
Browse the action gallery → — ready-made actions you can add in a tap, no setup.
Your clipboard is none of the cloud’s business.
Pickclip runs on Apple Intelligence — the model on your Mac’s own silicon. No account, no API key, no telemetry, no text leaving your machine. Prefer your own models? Point it at a local Ollama server and it falls back seamlessly. Your clipboard history is kept only on your Mac.
A clipboard you can come back to — and act on.
Press ⌘⇧V and everything you’ve copied is right there: searchable, pinnable, aging out on its own.
← browse anything you copied, then run an action on it
Your whole clipboard, searchable
Browse, search, and paste anything you copied earlier — text, rich text, or images. Pin the ones you reuse; the rest expire on their own.
Run an action on any past clip
Translate, Fix, Clean Link, or any custom action — applied to something you copied an hour ago. The result pastes straight back into the app you’re in.
Search by meaning
Switch it on and “wifi password” finds “WPA2 PSK: …”, a phrase you never typed. Exact and fuzzy word matches still rank first, and the model doing the understanding runs on your Mac.
Stack a few clips, paste them as one
Collect clips into a stack, reorder them, and paste the lot as a single block — or run one action across every clip in the stack and paste the results together.
Or just type what you want
Prompt mode takes an instruction instead of an action — “make this a bulleted list”, “reply to this in Spanish” — runs it on the highlighted clip, and pastes the answer.
One-key paste shortcuts
Pin a clip and give it a single letter. From then on, ⇥ and that key paste it instantly — your address, a support macro, the ticket number you keep retyping.
Filter by type
Links, images, emails, JSON, numbers… one click narrows a long history. Chips only show the types you’ve actually copied.
Link previews, on demand
Pull a link’s title and icon when you want them — and only then. Pickclip never reaches out to your links on its own.
Pause recording
Private browsing for your clipboard. Pause for ten minutes, an hour, or until you switch it back on — the menu bar icon dims while it’s off.
Give your AI assistant hands on your clipboard.
Pickclip runs a small MCP server on your Mac, so Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Cursor can search everything you’ve copied, pull up a clip from yesterday, run one of your actions on it, and hand the result back to your clipboard. It stays off until you switch it on — and then it listens on localhost only, behind a token.
your assistant asks — Pickclip answers, from your Mac
It can find what you copied
List and search your history, read a clip in full, or check what’s on the clipboard right now — instead of asking you to go dig it out and paste it in again.
It can run your actions
Fix, Organize, Translate, Clean Link, or any custom action of yours, applied to a clip — and the result can land straight on your clipboard, ready to paste.
It can build you new ones
“Make me a Pickclip action that pretty-prints JSON.” It writes the action, saves it alongside the rest, and can try it on a real clip to prove it works.
Connect your assistant → — one click for Claude Desktop, one command for Claude Code, a config snippet for everything else.
Off by default. Clips from password managers are never shared. If the assistant you connect runs in the cloud, whatever it reads leaves your Mac — Pickclip says so plainly before you turn it on.
Copy on your iPhone. Let the Mac do the work.
Two opt-in ways to move text between the phone in your pocket and the Mac on your desk, with nothing to install on the phone. Your clipboard history never leaves the Mac — only the results you asked for travel.
Copy on the phone, paste the answer
With your iPhone near the Mac, text you copy on it runs through the action you picked — translate it, tidy it, summarize it — and the result rides Universal Clipboard back to the phone. Just paste. The original stays in your Mac’s history.
Send to Mac · From Mac
A “Pickclip” folder appears in the Files app. Share text into Send to Mac and your action runs on it; the answer shows up in From Mac, next to results from the actions you ran at your desk.
Both are off until you set them up in Settings → iPhone Sync. The hand-off needs Universal Clipboard working: same Apple ID, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on, Handoff enabled on both devices.
Made for the way you actually work.
Tame messy text
Strip tracking junk off a URL, pull every email out of a blob, convert a timestamp — with tiny scripts Pickclip writes and sandboxes. Snippets wait in history, ready to re-paste.
See an example →Polish before anyone sees
Fix grammar in place, organize a ramble into clean bullets, or rewrite for tone — right at your cursor, no document or browser tab required.
See an example →Reply faster, cleaner
Translate a reply into the customer's language, clean tracking params off a link before you send it, and pull reusable snippets straight from history.
See an example →Get the text out
OCR words out of slides and screenshots, summarize a dense paragraph to one line, translate a source — all on-device, with nothing to upload.
See an example →Don’t take our word for it.
I like being able to screenshot anything and extract the text. It’s faster than trying to highlight text since that often grabs extraneous lines, and it’s much easier to copy and paste the extracted text since it’s plaintext that removes size and color formatting.
I’ve used several different clipboard managers over the years, and Pickclip is exceptional in this category. Here’s an analogy for understanding it — if you’ve used TextExpander for text input automation, and you like that, Pickclip is its modern counterpoint for text output automation.
I use Pickclip every single day; it’s become part of how I work. The copy history alone is worth it, but the custom functions are what really hooked me: I can turn copied text into whatever I need it to be without breaking my flow. My favorite move is copying straight into Apple Notes, and having a quick prompt feature built right in for fast questions seals the deal.
The dictation capabilities in Pickclip are incredibly useful! I’ve been using it to enter notes into my CRM, compose emails, and speak directly to Claude. The built-in dictionary is useful to recognize names and acronyms that I use regularly.
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Requirements: macOS 26 or later · Apple Silicon · Apple Intelligence enabled (or a local Ollama install).