Introducing Pickclip, a tool to help you use your local Apple Intelligence more effectively. We're starting with a smart clipboard manager and transcription, two areas where we can make the biggest impact.
Once you've talked, you can chain any custom action you've defined. So "tidy up my rambling, then paste it back" becomes a one-step thing — talking is just another way to start an action.
Typing things into AI? Try Pickclip's transcription instead. Hold ⌥⇧D and talk — the transcript streams into a popup at your cursor, ready to copy, clip, or send to Notes. Apple's on-device engine, so it never leaves your Mac.
It's the interface where you say the half-thought about a colleague, the note about a symptom, the idea that's still embarrassing. We didn't want to be the ones asking you to send that somewhere.
Last one: Save to Folder… takes a description, not just a path. Type "the downloads folder" and Pickclip goes and finds it. After that it's a single click.
Pickclip isn't just about text — it handles images too. A common one: you've got text trapped inside a screenshot. ⌘⇧7, drag a box, pick Extract Text, and the words land on your clipboard. On-device Vision OCR, nothing uploaded, works with the Wi-Fi off.
Those reports are plain text, so your own actions can take it from there. "Turn this palette into CSS variables." "Is this contrast readable?" The image becomes an input to the same actions you already run on everything else.
There's a gallery of ready-made ones if you'd rather start from something that already works: https://t.co/GXXHfxzB2b
All of it runs on your Mac. No account, no API key, no subscription.
Every clipboard tool ships the same handful of actions; the ones you actually need aren't among them. So in Pickclip you describe what you want in plain English and it shows up in your copy popup. For example, let's say you want any selected text turned into a bulleted list.
Or chain them. An action sequence is an ordered run of the actions you already have — strip the tracking parameters off this link, then open it in the browser — each step feeding the next, one click for the whole thing.
Apple put a model on millions of Macs and most people have never used it — because asking an assistant to help is more work than just doing the thing. We're on a mission to fix this by making the clipboard easier and more useful.
Introducing Pickclip, a tool to help you use your local Apple Intelligence more effectively. We're starting with a smart clipboard manager and transcription, two areas where we can make the biggest impact.
Pickclip runs on Apple Intelligence — the model your Mac already has. That means everything stays on the machine — no cloud round-trip or API key needed. Transcriptions and clipboard entries stay private.