ClipSpeak

Your clipboard manager with dictation, text recognition and Apple Intelligence – all local on your Mac.

For macOS 26 · English & German

History

Text, images, links, files and colors are instantly back. One shortcut opens the history at your pointer.

Screenshots & OCR

Capture an area or window, recognize text and QR codes and copy them right away.

Dictation

Speak instead of typing – right at the cursor, with recognition running on your device.

Apple Intelligence

Summarize, translate, rephrase – with Apple’s language model on your Mac.

Support

Questions, bugs or ideas? Write to me: info@joshkalb.com

Shortcuts (defaults)

⌥⌘V Open history
⌃⌥S Screenshot to clipboard
⌃⌥T Recognize text in an image (OCR)
⌃⌥D Start/stop dictation (hold = push-to-talk)
⌘K in the history: actions & Apple Intelligence

All shortcuts can be changed in Settings.

Permissions

Accessibility: only to send ⌘V to the active app after you pick an item.
Screen Recording: only for screenshots and text recognition when you trigger them.
Microphone & Speech Recognition: only for dictation.

FAQ

Where is the Dock icon? ClipSpeak lives in the menu bar and intentionally has no Dock icon.

Screenshots don’t work after allowing Screen Recording? macOS sometimes requires an app restart – quit ClipSpeak from the menu bar icon and open it again.

Apple Intelligence actions are greyed out? They need a Mac that supports Apple Intelligence, turned on in System Settings.