Clipboard & AI
Fix the wording before you paste
Proofread, tighten, re-tone or summarise anything in your clipboard history — on-device with Apple Intelligence. Notchy adds no key, no account, no upload.
Six edits, one tap each
Proofread. Make professional. Make friendly. Make concise. Summarise. Bullet points. Hover a clipboard row and pick one.
Your clipboard never leaves
It runs on Apple's local foundation model. The text you paste around all day — tokens, addresses, half-written replies — is exactly the text that should never be sent to someone else's GPU.
Works on old copies too
Not just what you have selected right now. Anything in history is fair game, including text from an app you have already quit.
Honest about availability
Older macOS, an ineligible Mac or Apple Intelligence turned off — Notchy names the reason instead of failing silently, and nothing else about the clipboard changes.
Everything Notchy does, for free
- Fluid Dynamic Island animations on the Mac notch
- Command palette (⌃⌥K) — every action one keystroke away
- Knock — double-tap a modifier key to open the notch
- AI usage tracker (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot)
- Detach any tab into a menu-bar popover
- Now Playing music controls (Apple Music & Spotify)
- Time-synced karaoke lyrics under the notch
- Mac clipboard history shelf (password-manager safe)
- Searchable clipboard — filter by text, file name, or OCR'd words
- On-device OCR — copy a screenshot, get its text (Apple Vision)
- Window snapping — drag a window to the notch to tile it
- App Launcher — pin apps to the notch, open with one tap
- Text snippets — TextExpander-style pastes from the ⌘K palette
- One-tap screen capture to clipboard + shelf
- Color eyedropper — sample any pixel, hex auto-copied
- System-wide mic mute for every meeting app at once
- Keystroke HUD for demos & screencasts (secure-input safe)
- Keyboard cleaning lock with countdown island (⌘⎋ unlocks)
- Menu-bar icon hiding — Bartender-style separator & chevron
- Live CPU / memory / network stats flyout
- Open GitHub PR count in the notch (Keychain-stored token)
- iPhone-style call island — Answer/Decline FaceTime on the notch
- Notch Terminal — real VT100/xterm shell in a PTY, its own tab
- Privacy Indicator — pill when any app's camera or mic goes live
- Caps Lock HUD — brief island on every toggle
- Full Charge island with adjustable threshold + low-battery sound
- Alt HUD styles — edge-pinned bar or circular gauge off the notch
- Audio-reactive Now Playing visualizer (real FFT of system audio)
- Custom closed-notch idle animation — drop in your own Lottie JSON
- Drag-and-drop file drop shelf — persists across relaunches
- Zip & unzip files right from the shelf
- Image converter (HEIC, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PDF) + video → GIF
- Run Apple Shortcuts with one tap
- Screenshots auto-staged on the shelf, ready to drag
- Download finished alerts with Reveal in Finder
- USB drive mount island with one-tap Eject
- Apple Reminders quick capture & due list
- macOS Pomodoro notch timer & stopwatch — streaks + 7-day chart
- Resizable expanded panel (width & height, live preview)
- System HUDs (volume, brightness, battery)
- Audio output switcher (speakers, AirPods, monitor)
- AirPods connection manager & battery
- Magic Mouse, Keyboard & Trackpad battery + low-battery alerts
- Quick notes & Calendar widgets
- Camera Mirror (check your appearance)
- Keep Awake (caffeine toggle)
- Teleprompter (Cuely) for Zoom calls
- Focus-aware alerts & native haptic feedback
- Lock screen widgets & hide-the-notch mode
- 133 languages, fully localized
- Native SwiftUI, tuned for Apple Silicon
AI clipboard — FAQ
What can it do to my text?
Six things, each one tap from a clipboard row: proofread, make professional, make friendly, make concise, summarise, and turn into bullet points. The result goes back on your clipboard, ready to paste over the original.
Does my clipboard get sent to a server?
No. The rewriting runs on Apple's on-device foundation model through Apple Intelligence. There is no API key to add, no subscription, and no request leaving your Mac — your clipboard is frequently the most sensitive text on the machine, so it stays there.
What do I need for it to work?
macOS 26 or later on an Apple-Intelligence-capable Mac, with Apple Intelligence switched on. Where it can't run, Notchy tells you exactly which of those is missing rather than showing a button that does nothing — and every other clipboard feature works regardless.
Is this the same as Apple's Writing Tools?
Same engine, different reach. Writing Tools works on text you have selected inside a text field. This works on your clipboard history — including something you copied an hour ago out of an app that has since closed.
Does it replace what I copied?
It puts the rewrite on the clipboard, and it doesn't spawn a duplicate history entry for the same thought. The original stays in your history, so nothing is lost if you prefer what you had.
Can I run it without opening the notch?
Yes. Each operation is also a ⌘K command palette action that works on whatever is on the clipboard right now, so you can copy, run “Make Concise”, and paste.