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Studio stays smooth on long recordings.
v2.7.6 · Latest ·
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Smooth Studio on long recordings. Long and high frame rate recordings play, pause and scrub smoothly in Studio. Exports still use the original.
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A steadier launch. Clacky stays responsive while it looks for interrupted recordings after it opens.
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Mic Mute tells the truth. Mic Mute only says Muted when your mic really is.
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Keep Awake comes back. If Clacky closes or restarts while Keep Awake is on, it turns back on when Clacky opens again, with the time it had left.
Clacky stays open again.
v2.7.5 ·
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Clacky stays open. Fixes Clacky closing a few seconds after opening in 2.7.4.
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Opening a video. Opening a video with Clacky works even when it's closed.
Simpler Clacky
v2.7.1 ·
Clacky is back to its core: sounds, Studio and Clackyland. Everything else waits under More tools.
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Text on your videos. In Studio, Add Text puts your own words on the video at the playhead, at the top, middle or bottom, in the preview and the export.
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Several videos in one edit. In Studio, Add Video or drop videos on the timeline to join them after your recording, and drag a clip to put them in a new order.
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A lane for your music. The music sits under the captions, where you can move it, trim it, fade it and set its volume, or add your own mp3, m4a or wav.
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Pictures on your screenshots. Drop pictures onto a screenshot, or use Add Screenshot, and they sit on top as layers you can move, resize and rotate; drop one on the Dock or menu bar icon to open it in the editor.
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Setup, at a glance. For your first days, a small checklist on top of My Kit: sounds on, Input Monitoring, and your first screenshot or recording. It goes away by itself once they are done.
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Four places. My Kit, Sounds, Studio and Clackyland, with one switch each for clicks, scroll, keys, ripples and the notch in My Kit.
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More tools, folded away. Mac Health, Keep Awake, Mic Mute, Clipboard and the other utilities sit under More tools at the bottom of My Kit, off until you switch them on, and come back just as you left them.
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A quicker welcome. Hello, pick your click from big cards you can hear, one clear Input Monitoring step that notices the switch by itself, and you are in. Screen Recording is only asked the first time you record or take a screenshot.
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Free for 7 days, no card. The free trial starts when you first open Clacky: no card, no checkout, nothing to cancel. Then $4.99 a month, or $19.99 once for Lifetime.
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Your notch, your way. The notch shows Boop with your Blip beside it, and Settings → Notch has a live preview where you pick its style and size and drag its tiles into your own order.
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Quieter. No check-in cards, pop-ups, reminders or tool levels: just the app. Your Clackyland streak keeps counting.
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Studio’s Edit panel. Opening More at the bottom of the Edit panel and scrolling back up no longer leaves a gap or draws rows on top of each other.
A home for everything
v2.7 ·
A new window with one place each for your Kit, Studio and Sounds, any image in Screenshot Studio, Friends, Your Stats and six small tools.
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Places. One window, one pill: My Kit is home, Studio is where you record and edit, Sounds holds everything you hear and feel (each with a short explainer), and Settings is the gear. Swoosh between them or press ⌘1 to ⌘4.
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Edit any image. Drop a screenshot or picture onto Screenshot Studio, press ⌘V or choose File → Open Image… (⌘O) to mark it up, polish it or send it on. Nothing is uploaded.
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Your own backgrounds. Polish has a Clacky background, any colour you pick, your own picture, or "Your brand" gradients from your website.
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Friends and @usernames. Pick a username, add friends by @username, code or link, see their Blip, level and streak, and send cheers. No messages, and nothing is sent until you turn it on.
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Your Stats. Your week on the Sounds place, with Day, Week and Month views and your busiest hours. Counts only, never which keys.
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Choose where sounds play. Settings → Sounds → Output: follow the Mac, or always use one device while it is connected.
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Six small tools. Click Doctor stops a worn mouse from double-clicking, Mic Mute mutes your mic everywhere with one shortcut, Grab Code reads QR codes on screen, Move to a New Mac saves your set-up to a file, Network shows live speed, and Agent Usage shows what Claude Code and Codex used today.
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Copy only, save when you want. Settings → Screenshots → After capture: Copy only opens a screenshot in the editor without saving it. ⌘C copies and closes; Save puts it in your folder.
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Share your badge. Share on X sits next to your badges on your Blip's profile.
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Text the way you want it. Any size, any font, Regular or Bold, any hex colour, and nothing, a shadow, an outline or a pill behind it.
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Clean Mac cards. My Kit and Studio use clean Mac cards by default, with a thin level line. Prefer something playful? The game cards are a theme in Settings → General → Card theme.
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Studio tools, one screen each. Screenshot, Scrolling Capture, Edit a Video and Edit a Picture each open their own screen in Studio: what the tool does, a short tour, a big start button, a drop zone and your recent ones. No surprise file picker.
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Settings with character. With the Clacky card theme, Settings gets the same game-card look as the rest of the app. The plain themes keep it calm.
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Clipboard History saves again. Clipboard History now saves again when “Keep after restart” is on: encrypted on this Mac, older copies brought over once, and the old file only removed after the new one is safely written.
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Record Screen and the screenshot thumbnail. Record Screen works again on recent macOS, and the screenshot thumbnail stays on screen on every display.
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Recordings survive a crash. Long recordings are saved in safe pieces every few minutes and put back together as “(recovered)” after a crash, a force quit or a restart.
Recordings that survive
v2.6.3 ·
A crash, a force quit or a restart no longer loses your recording, and Clacky tells you clearly when it can only hear clicks in its own window.
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Recordings survive a crash. Long recordings are saved in safe pieces every few minutes. If Clacky or your Mac stops mid-recording, the next launch puts it back together as “(recovered)” and shows it to you. Nothing is ever thrown away.
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Clicks everywhere, or a clear why. Without Input Monitoring, Clacky only hears clicks in its own window. It now says so plainly, with a button to fix it, and starts working the moment you allow it.
Screenshots your way
v2.6.2 ·
Copy a screenshot without saving it, the thumbnail stays on screen, and Record Screen works again on recent macOS.
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Copy only, save when you want. Settings → Screenshots → After capture: choose Copy only, and a screenshot opens in the editor without being saved. ⌘C copies it and closes; Save puts it in your folder.
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⌘C copies and closes. In the screenshot editor, ⌘C now copies your edited shot and closes the editor.
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The thumbnail stays on screen. After a screenshot, the little preview no longer slips off the right edge, on any display.
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Record Screen works again. On recent macOS, Record Screen could fail with “invalid parameter”. Fixed, and if macOS ever refuses again Clacky tries once more by itself.
Steadier
v2.6.1 ·
Fixes a crash that could happen when opening or closing Settings pages with explainer loops.
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No more crash around explainer loops. Opening, resizing or closing a Settings page with an explainer loop could crash Clacky on some Macs. Fixed.
Lighter, calmer, more private
v2.6 ·
Privacy & Permissions, a private clipboard, Sounds only, Focus with your Blip, and Clacky is now half the size.
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Privacy & Permissions. See every permission Clacky can use, which features need it, and why. Clacky only asks when you turn a feature on.
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Private clipboard. Clipboard history is now encrypted on your Mac, skips passwords, and can forget old items by itself.
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Sounds only. One switch turns off everything except the sounds. Every feature you switch off fully stops.
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Focus with your Blip. Start a focus session and your Blip naps beside the notch, gently hiding distracting apps if you want.
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Half the size, faster to open. Clacky is now about 31 MB instead of 66 MB and loads only the sounds it needs at launch. You can see its CPU and memory in Settings.
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Even sound worlds and sharper loops. Interface sounds are equally loud in all 4 sound worlds, 16 new explainer loops, and big loops are crisp in HD.
Your Blip comes to life ✨
v2.5.9 ·
The glow-up card now shows your Blip changing into its new look, then hopping and walking about. Plus a big polish pass.
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Your Blip comes to life. On the glow-up card your old Blip sparkles into its new sticker look, then blinks, hops and takes a few steps (a simple fade with Reduce Motion).
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A big polish pass. Smoother animations, a Settings crash fixed, faster Studio loading, and text that fits in every language (including the price on the Spanish paywall).
Your Blip got a glow-up
v2.5.8 ·
Every Blip has a fresh new sticker look: bolder shapes, cleaner outlines, same Blip you love.
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A gift: the Early Supporter cap. Everyone on Clacky by 31 October gets a little cap with Boop on the front, free. Claim it from the card, or find it later in your Blip’s wardrobe. It’s never sold.
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A fresh new look for your Blip. Blips now have a crisp sticker style: flat colours, a clean outline and little feet. Your Blip keeps its name, colour, face and everything it wears.
Pictures in Support
v2.5.7 ·
Support replies can now show step-by-step pictures, links open in your browser, and you can attach a screenshot.
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Pictures in Support. Replies in the Support chat can include images; click one to see it bigger.
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Attach a screenshot. Paste, drag or pick a screenshot (up to 5 MB) when you write to support; only what you attach is sent.
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Clickable links. Links in Support messages now open in your browser.
Keep Awake, one click away
v2.5.6 ·
Keep Awake is in the menu bar menu and the notch, and the recorder tells you when macOS hides your windows.
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Keep Awake in the menu. Clacky's menu and the notch now have a Keep Awake dropdown: 15 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, until you turn it off, or with the lid closed.
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Cursor halo, one click. The Presenter halo can be switched on and off right next to Keep Awake, in the menu and the notch.
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Recordings of just the desktop. When macOS only lets Clacky see the wallpaper (a stale Screen Recording permission, often after an update), the recorder now says so and shows the two-click fix instead of recording an empty desktop.
Sound worlds
v2.5.5 ·
Interface sounds now come in 4 sound worlds.
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Interface sounds, 4 sound worlds. Soft little sounds for toggles, the notch, kits, Studio and more, in 4 sound worlds (Clacky, Soft Felt, Thock, Warm Analog). Made with ElevenLabs. Turn them off in Settings → General.
Interface sounds
v2.5.4 ·
Soft, satisfying sounds across Clacky, a notch that stays out of your way on any screen, Demo mode for filming Clacky, and screenshots that follow you.
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Interface sounds. Soft sounds for switches, the tour, coins, the recorder and more. Quiet, never in your recordings, and one switch turns them off (Settings → General). Made with ElevenLabs.
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Choose where the notch shows. Settings → Notch → Show the notch on: just this Mac, the main screen, every screen, or the ones you pick. On a monitor it rests as a tiny dot and fades away when an app's tabs sit underneath.
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Demo mode. Making a video about Clacky? Menu → More → Demo Mode shows Clacky's own controls in recordings, part by part. Off by default.
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Screenshots follow you. Swipe to another desktop or a full-screen app and the screenshot preview comes with you.
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Turn off the halo in one click. While Presenter is on, the Live strip has a quick way to turn the halo off.
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Recorder menus never cut off. The Cursor, mic and camera menus in the recorder bar open where there's room, even when the bar sits at the bottom of the screen.
v2.5.310 October 2026
- Fixed: Perfectly smooth corners. Pro Screenshots no longer leave a faint, stepped dark edge around rounded corners: they are smooth at every size (thanks again, Vedanth).
Sounds only in your headphones or only in the apps you pick, gentler loud clicks, and every Home card reorders.
v2.5.2 ·
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Only with headphones. Settings → General: Clacky’s sounds play only in AirPods or headphones, never out loud on your speakers. Off by default.
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Sounds only in these apps. Your Quiet in these apps list can now work the other way round: pick the apps where sounds play, and Clacky stays quiet everywhere else. Ripples still show everywhere.
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Gentler loud clicks. The loudest click sounds (Airpop, Buckle, Shutter and a few more) are a touch softer, so every sound sits at a comfortable level.
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Reorder every Home card. Every card in Your kit on Home can be dragged to a new spot now, not just some of them.
v2.5.19 October 2026
- Fixed: Smooth screenshot corners. Screenshot corners and shadows are perfectly smooth now, with Apple-style rounded corners (thanks Vedanth).
Demo Studio
v2.5 ·
Stop recording and your video edits itself: pauses cut, zooms on your clicks, captions, and a 9:16 for Shorts. Plus your own shortcuts, a heads-up before your disk fills, and Boop answers in the app.
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Demo Studio (beta). Stop a recording and press Edit in Studio: the pauses are cut, every click gets a zoom, captions light up word by word, and one switch makes it 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5. Export MP4, HEVC, MOV, a GIF or just the audio, then share it with AirDrop, Messages or any app. It all happens on your Mac. Needs macOS 15.
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Your own shortcuts. Settings → Shortcuts lists every Clacky shortcut in one place: click one and press the keys you want, and Clacky tells you if they clash with another shortcut.
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Low on space. Turn it on in Mac Health and Boop chimes before your Mac runs out of room, with a Clean up… link to Storage.
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Ask Boop in the app. Ask Boop a question in Boop Support and get the steps, with a Do it for me button when he can flip the setting for you.
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Scrolling Capture (beta). Capture a whole web page or chat, taller than your screen, as one image: Clacky scrolls it for you (or you scroll) and stitches the parts together.
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Meet your Blip. Everyone gets their own little character with a name, a look you can reroll and a glow that grows as you use Clacky. It lives at the top of your dashboard and, if you like, beside the notch.
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Achievements. 71 goals for your Blip, from your first 100 clicks to a year-long streak. Each one gives glow, some give a badge, and the ones your Mac has already earned unlock straight away. Counts only, never which keys.
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Share your Blip. Make a card of your Blip, your stats for the day, week, month or all time, or an achievement, in 1:1, 9:16 or 16:9. Share it or copy the image. Made on your Mac, nothing uploaded.
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A tidy home. The dashboard opens on your kit: the tools you picked, on top. Drag tools in from Explore, drag cards to reorder or out to remove, and press ⌘K to find any tool or ask Boop.
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Modes know the new tools. Modes can now switch the cursor style, Mac sound in recordings, opening Studio after a take, Mac Health alerts and your Blip. Record and the new Present mode use them; modes you changed yourself stay as they are.
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Easier to install and activate. A friendlier install window, and if your licence key is on the clipboard, “I have a key” pastes and activates it in one click.
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Space you could free. The Mac Health tile shows how much space your last Storage scan found to free, instead of just Ready.
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What stats are sent. Settings shows the exact list of anonymous usage stats Clacky shares, and new installs are asked once in the welcome tour (Boop gets a cookie if you say yes).
Copy the text from anything you can see.
v2.4.3 ·
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Grab Text. Copy the text from anything on your screen, or from any screenshot or photo, with one shortcut. It all happens on your Mac.
A crash fix, and two things that quietly didn’t work.
v2.4.2 ·
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Pick your cursor. Record with a hand 👆, a big arrow, Boop’s paw 🐾 or no cursor at all, and change it later in Studio.
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When macOS blocks Clacky. If macOS isn’t letting Clacky hear your clicks, the dashboard now says so and shows the one switch that fixes it.
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A crash. Clacky no longer crashes when Voice to Prompt starts listening while your microphone is still switching on.
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Recordings that keep going. Recordings no longer stop on their own when your Mac is low on space or the mic drops. Only Stop ends a recording now.
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Screenshot from the menu bar. The Screenshot button in the menu bar menu opens its Area, Window and Full Screen choices again.
Boop has something for you on your trial’s last day.
v2.4.1 ·
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A cookie from Boop. On the last day of your free week, Boop offers you his last cookie, with the end time and the prices on the card; say no and he eats it alone, and nothing is ever charged by itself.
Screenshots that never get lost, and several of them on one canvas.
v2.4 ·
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The Shelf. Every screenshot you take stays on a slim shelf beside the editor for 24 hours (the last 20, on this Mac only), ready to drag onto the canvas, into Finder or into any app.
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Collage. Put several screenshots on one canvas, side by side, stacked, in a 2 × 2 grid, one big and two small, three in a row, as a Showcase or anywhere you like, then copy, save, share or send it to AI like any shot.
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Nice or Raw. One switch gives a collage the Polish look (background, even gaps, rounded corners, a shadow per shot, sizes for X, Product Hunt and more) or leaves the shots edge to edge for docs and bug reports.
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Shots that glue together. Match heights or widths in one tap: a shorter shot’s card extends in its own edge colour, sits centred or scales to fill, and dragged edges snap into line with a soft tick.
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Annotations follow their shot. Arrows, text and redactions stay on the shot they were drawn on when you change the layout, crop a shot or move it.
A fix for switching headphones and speakers.
v2.3.2 ·
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Headphones and speakers. Clacky no longer quits when you plug in or switch headphones or speakers.
Fixes for the screenshot editor.
v2.3.1 ·
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Send to AI and Share. In the screenshot editor, Send to AI opens its Claude and ChatGPT menu right under the button and Share opens its sheet over the editor, on any display, even when Clacky isn’t the app in front.
Pro screenshots, a deeper Mac Health
v2.3 ·
One key turns any screenshot into a polished, framed shot sized for where it’s going, and Mac Health shows you what’s behind every reading.
Pro screenshots: press ⌘B and any shot gets a background, a frame and the right size.
Mac Health: tap any reading for a chart and the apps behind it.
Recorder: the zoom now follows your cursor smoothly.
A short loop next to every feature shows what it does.
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Polish your screenshots. Press ⌘B in the screenshot editor and your shot gets a background and sits centred, with 16 backgrounds to pick from, your own wallpaper included.
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Frames and sizes. Put your shot in a window or browser frame and size it for X, Product Hunt, YouTube, Instagram, 9:16 or the App Store, then save the look as a preset.
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Copy a polished shot. ⌥⇧⌘6 captures an area or a window and puts a polished version straight on your clipboard.
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Detail pages in Mac Health. Tap any reading for a page with a chart for now, today, the week or the month, and the apps behind it.
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App cards. Tap an app to see what it’s using, with Quit and Force Quit buttons that always ask first.
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30-day history, if you want it. Turn it on and Mac Health keeps about 3 MB of history on your Mac only, and you can forget it anytime.
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Three new gentle alerts. Mac Health can let you know when an app’s memory keeps creeping up, an app hammers your disk, or something drains your battery.
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Projects. Dev servers you left running show up under Projects, so you can spot the idle ones and stop them.
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Loops for every new feature. Each new feature has its own short loop that shows what it does.
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Your original stays safe. Saving an edit never overwrites the original screenshot, and Redact covers secrets with a solid block that can’t be undone.
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A lighter Mac Health window. The Mac Health window updates only the parts that change, so it uses less CPU while it’s open.
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Updates that wait for you. Clacky checks for updates every hour and installs them by itself when your Mac is idle (never while you’re recording, in a call or presenting); until then the menu shows “Update ready”.
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Smooth recorder zoom. On Clicks and Follow Cursor zoom moves smoothly and stays in sync with the pointer.
Recording fixes
v2.2.1 ·
Stopping a recording always shows you the result, and the area box behaves when you move it.
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The preview always appears. When you stop a recording, its preview shows up bottom-right on the screen you recorded, with a “Recording saved · Show in Finder” card if the preview can’t open.
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Moving the area box. Dragging the area box moves it at the same size and stops at the screen edge, and you can resize it from its edges as well as its corners.
Lighter, clearer, calmer
v2.2 ·
Mac Health uses a fraction of the CPU, every feature shows you what it does in a short loop, and a lot of small things work the way they should.
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See what each feature does. A short loop next to every feature shows what it does; tap it to see it bigger.
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Play while you think. Boop Support has a little game to play while you write to us.
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Mac Health is much lighter. With its window open, Mac Health went from about 51% CPU to about 2%, and Clacky uses less CPU when it sits idle.
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A much shorter menu. The menu bar menu is compact now, a lot less to scroll through.
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Clearer Input Monitoring step. The welcome tour shows macOS’s prompt first, and if you pressed Deny, one click helps you put it right.
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More notch choices. Hide Boop from the notch, and choose whether the notch shows up in your recordings and screenshots (off by default). On screens without a notch, it tucks away from app tabs.
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Drag the Mac Health side panel. Move the side panel wherever it suits you.
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Screenshot Studio. Send to AI works and tells you what happened, it works on a second display, and the toolbar is tidier.
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Color Picker. Fixed, with a clear Pick a Color button.
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Better crash reports. If Clacky crashes, the report now says what went wrong, so it gets fixed faster.
Now Playing in your notch 🎵
v2.1 ·
See what Spotify or Apple Music is playing right in your notch, and play, pause or skip without leaving what you are doing.
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Now Playing in the notch. Spotify and Apple Music show the cover, the song and play, pause and skip buttons in the open notch, with a progress bar you can drag; switch it on from its dashboard tile.
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Other players too. For YouTube Music and other players in your browser, Clacky can send your keyboard’s play and skip keys, without the song’s name.
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A mini player in the menu bar. If you like, the song’s name sits in the menu bar: click to play or pause, right-click to skip.
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A card when the song changes. If you like, a small card with the cover and the name drops from the notch for a few seconds when a new song starts.
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Music in ⌘K. Play or pause, next and previous track are a ⌘K away.
Not just clicks anymore.
v2.0 ·
Clacky becomes your companion on the Mac: one dashboard with every little tool you need, from captions to agent alerts.
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Your dashboard. Every tool on one screen, grouped into Hear, Show & Record, Mac & Focus and Everyday, each with its own switch; ⌘K finds any tool or setting and ⌘/ shows every shortcut.
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A new welcome tour. Pick what you want Clacky for and it switches on the tools that fit, explaining each permission before macOS asks, and only for the tools you use.
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Modes. Record, Code, Focus, Call and Quiet each switch a whole set of tools in one click, from the notch, the menu bar or ⌘K, and you can edit them or make your own.
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Captions and a teleprompter. After a recording Clacky writes captions on your Mac, in four styles to burn in or as subtitles to export, and the teleprompter reads your script just under the camera without ever showing in the video.
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Screenshot studio. Capture an area, a window or the whole screen, then crop, blur, add arrows, text, numbered steps and a background frame (macOS 14 or later).
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Mac Health. Memory, CPU, the busiest apps, battery health and what fills your disk, with a cleanup that shows you everything first and only moves files to the Trash.
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Agent alerts. A sound and a gentle nudge when Claude Code or Codex finishes or needs you, set up in one click.
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Voice to prompt. Hold ⌃⌥V and talk: your words are turned into text on your Mac and land on your clipboard, ready to paste into any app.
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Clacky for your AI tools. Switch on MCP and Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor or Codex can send you a notification, add a task, read Mac health or take a screenshot you approve, all on your Mac.
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Focus and Keep Awake. A focus timer with soft ambient sounds, live in the notch, and Keep Awake for a set time, until your agent is done, or with the lid closed.
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Everyday tools. Window snapping, clipboard history (off until you turn it on), a text expander, a colour picker, notes and today’s tasks, an app uninstaller and a tidier menu bar.
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Boop Support. Questions, bugs and ideas go straight to Justinas from inside the app, and his replies show up right there.
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Plans, and a thank-you. New Macs get 7 days of everything with no card, then a monthly, yearly or lifetime plan, and everyone who bought Clacky before 2.0 keeps every tool and update, forever.
A 7-day free trial, GIF export and Spotlight for your recordings, and Clacky moves itself to Applications.
v1.5 ·
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Export as GIF. The recording preview has a GIF button: pick 480, 720 or 960 px wide and 10, 15 or 24 fps, and a looping, silent GIF is saved next to the video, ready to copy.
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Spotlight in recordings. Turn on Spotlight in the recorder bar and everything but a soft circle around the pointer dims while you record, in the video too; set how dark and how big in Settings.
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A 7-day free trial. Every feature is free for 7 days from the first launch, once per Mac, with no email and no card; a Mac that never had a trial gets its 7 days with this update.
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Boop asks to be fed. Clacky Lite is gone: without a licence Clacky stays quiet, and a friendly window with a hungry Boop offers Buy ($4.99 once, 2 Macs, every update) or a place to paste your key.
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Picking a sound family. Tapping a family in Settings → Sound or Keyboard now switches to its first sound and plays it, and the sound in use is easier to spot.
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Move to Applications. If Clacky runs from outside Applications it offers, once, to move itself there and reopen, so Launch at Login works after a restart; Settings shows the same button.
Keyboard sounds: every key you press gets a sound too, and what you type is never recorded.
v1.4 ·
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Keyboard sounds. Clacky now plays a sound for every key you press, from creamy thock to a typewriter with a bell on Return: 29 sounds in 9 families, with deeper space, return and delete keys, their own volume and a sound per app; it’s on after the update (Keyboard Sounds in the menu turns it off), and Clacky only knows the kind of key you pressed, never which one, so it never records, stores or sends what you type.
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Boards. One tap in Settings → Keyboard gives your clicks and scrolling the sounds that match your keyboard family, so the whole desk sounds like one setup.
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Typing stats. Settings → Stats → Typing shows your keys per minute, best minute, typing streak and the hours you type most, counted on your Mac from timing alone.
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Find my sound. Five one-tap questions suggest a whole setup (keyboard sound, matching clicks and scrolling, volumes) with a fun archetype you can apply, retake or share as an image; your answers stay on your Mac.
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Typing combos. Turn them on and a fast, steady rhythm earns a soft chime that climbs a note at a time.
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Anonymous usage stats. Clacky now shares anonymous usage stats (which features and sounds are used, the app and macOS versions, daily counts) so we can see what to improve: no personal data, never what you type, and you can turn it off in Settings.
Clacky speaks your language: 13 languages, following your Mac.
v1.3 ·
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Clacky in your language. The menu, Settings, welcome tour, recorder, camera bubble and licence screens now follow your Mac’s language: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Hindi, Bengali and Tamil, in the same words System Settings uses. Sound names stay as they are.
Pick your camera from live previews, and Clacky starts in Lite until you buy.
v1.2.1 ·
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Camera picker with live previews. The recorder’s Camera button shows a live thumbnail of every camera, so you can see which is which, with shape, size, border and mirror right there.
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Clacky now starts in Lite until you buy. New Macs start in Clacky Lite with the Crisp sound, and $4.99 once unlocks everything; a free trial you already started runs to its end.
Your camera in a bubble on your screen recordings.
v1.2 ·
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Camera bubble. Turn on the camera in the recorder bar and you appear in a circle, rounded square or rectangle that you can drag, resize and ring in white or Boop yellow, recorded live with your clicks.
Updates install themselves, What’s New shows everything you missed, and a round of fixes for clicks and recordings.
v1.1.3 ·
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Automatic updates. Clacky now downloads updates in the background and installs them when it quits, and checks every 6 hours.
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Everything you missed. Skipped a few updates? What’s New now shows every change since your last version in one window.
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Clicks. The first click after resuming is instant again, and drag sounds stop properly on calls and survive switching to AirPods.
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Recordings. The preview shows the right shape and click count straight away, and renaming, trashing, cancelling exports and restarting a countdown no longer trip each other up.
A small fix for the app icon.
v1.1.2 ·
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App icon. The app icon and menu-bar icon always show Boop as intended.
A free trial with no email, Clacky Lite after it, and one-click activation after buying.
v1.1.1 ·
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Try before granting. The welcome tour has a click pad to hear Clacky before you grant Input Monitoring.
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Trial time in the menu. The menu shows how much of the free trial is left.
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Clacky Lite. After the trial, Clacky keeps playing one sound for clicks, and recordings get a small “Made with Clacky” watermark.
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One-click activation. After buying, Open Clacky & activate on the thanks page activates your licence without copying the key.
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Keep Clacky screen. At the end of the trial, a screen shows your own click stats and how to keep everything.
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Occasional check-ins. Every so often (at most every 10 days) Boop asks for a quick review. Turn it off in Settings.
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No email for the trial. The 24-hour free trial starts on first launch, with no email and no card.
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Easier permission step. The Input Monitoring step shows which switch to turn on, notices by itself when it works, and helps if you get stuck.
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Settings look. The click pad panel is now a floating card.
Record your screen with every click in it, nine new sounds, a free trial and a new look.
v1.1 ·
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Built-in screen recorder. Menu → Record Screen… records the whole screen or an area with Clacky’s clicks and ripples in the video, on macOS 15 or later.
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Make a clip. After a recording, Make a Clip saves a vertical 9:16 video for TikTok, Reels and Shorts that follows your clicks, and copies a caption.
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Zoom. The recording preview can zoom your video in on each click or follow the cursor, shows it live, and saves it at full size with the sound untouched.
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Recordings window. Recordings open in a preview that plays right away, with rename, share, Post to X and Save As MOV, MP4 or GIF, and menu → Recordings… lists them all.
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Click shortcuts. Bind a mouse-button rhythm, like three quick right-clicks, to start or stop recording, switch Clacky on or off, or pick the next sound, never using the keyboard.
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Five new sounds. Boop, Thock, Kalimba, Typebar and Pixel join the library.
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Spooky sounds. A new Spooky family (Pumpkin, Cauldron, Bones and Ghost) takes the library to 37 sounds in 8 families.
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Free 24-hour trial. Try every sound and ripple in every app for a day before you buy, once per Mac.
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What’s New. After an update, Clacky shows what changed once, and the menu’s What’s New… shows it again.
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Boop on your desktop. Turn on Settings → Boop for a little Boop on your desktop that bounces with your clicks, dozes off when you take a break and wears a REC hat while Clacky records.
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Share your stats. Settings → Stats → Share… makes a card of your week or all time, portrait or landscape, to copy, save or share.
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Recording stats. A Recording tab shows time recorded, clicks on camera and which apps you recorded, by name only.
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Deeper click stats. Stats now show when you click, your top apps, records, your year so far and a streak of days with 50 or more clicks.
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Lighter and faster. Clacky now idles at about 0% CPU (was about 4%), uses less memory and loads only the sounds you use, while every click still plays instantly.
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Ripples on dark screens. Each ripple now has a light rim around its dark edge, so it shows on dark apps and in screen recordings.
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Bolder Recording preset. The Recording preset now draws a bold line, so clicks stand out in videos.
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Meet Boop. A new app icon and a matching menu-bar icon: Boop, a happy button mid-click.
A smoother first setup.
v1.0.1 ·
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Clearer permission hint. The little panel beside System Settings now says to click Quit & Reopen if macOS offers it.
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Tour picks up where you left off. If macOS quits Clacky while you turn on Input Monitoring, the welcome tour now carries on when Clacky reopens.
The first release of Clacky.
v1.0 ·
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Click sounds. A press and release sound for every mouse and trackpad click in every app, from 28 sounds in 7 families.
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Scroll ticks. A soft tick for every notch of the scroll wheel, in 8 styles.
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Click ripple. A ring, double ring, glow or dot under the cursor on every click, in any size and colour, that shows up in screen recordings.
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Presets. Default, Recording, Quiet, Playful and Subtle set the sound and the ripple in one tap.
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Extra moments. Optional sounds for double-clicks, long presses and drags, and stereo that follows the pointer.
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Your own sounds. Drop in your own press, release and scroll recordings.
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Quiet when it matters. Keep quiet in the apps you pick and while any app uses the microphone.
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Click stats. Your clicks per day, counted on your Mac only.
Make something on your Mac today.
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