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Jackdaw
Clipboard, file shelf and dictation in one Mac app
Hi everyone, maker here.
This started as an annoyance with my own setup. I had three menu bar utilities running: one for clipboard history, one as a shelf for dragging files between apps, and one for dictation. Three icons, three hotkeys I kept mixing up, and three separate things to pay for. None of them talked to each other, and all three did roughly the same thing — hold something for a moment so I could put it somewhere else.
So Jackdaw is those three behind one keystroke. Press Ctrl-Cmd-V and you get your clipboard history, searchable, with preview and in-place editing; a shelf you can drop files onto while you go find where they belong; and press-to-talk dictation. The dictation runs entirely on-device, and nothing is uploaded anywhere — there is no account and no server to sign into.
It is native Swift and SwiftUI with a Rust core, not Electron. It needs macOS 14 or later and it is Apple silicon only, which is a deliberate tradeoff I made to keep it small and fast rather than a universal binary. $25 one-time, and the 14-day trial is the whole app.
Happy to answer anything — especially interested in whether the one-hotkey-for-three-things idea actually clicks for other people or whether it just made sense in my own head.
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About Jackdaw on Product Hunt
“Clipboard, file shelf and dictation in one Mac app”
Jackdaw was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Jackdaw is a native Mac utility: searchable clipboard history, a file drop-zone and on-device dictation. One hotkey, ⌘⌃V. 14-day free trial.
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