Native macOS utility

Everything you copy, a keystroke away.

Jackdaw keeps your clipboard history, stages the files you’re moving, and turns speech into text — natively on your Mac, nothing leaving the device.

14-day free trial · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon & Intel

Jackdaw clipboard overlay
The overlay, summoned over anything you’re working in.
On-device — nothing leaves your Mac Native Swift, not Electron Paste in under a second

See it in action

Copy, shelve, dictate — one uninterrupted flow

A real session: copy a snippet, stage files on the shelf, drag them out, then dictate — all without leaving the app.

Clipboard

A clipboard history that keeps up with you

Every copy is captured and instantly searchable. Find it, tweak it, and paste it back — usually before you’ve lifted your fingers off the keys.

  • Instant search — type to filter thousands of clips in real time
  • Preview anything — peek at links, images, and files before you paste
  • Edit in place — fix a typo or trim a clip without leaving Jackdaw
  • Rich text preserved — formatting, styles, and colours survive the round trip
  • Pin favourites — keep the snippets you reach for at the top
  • Auto-paste — pick a clip and Jackdaw types it straight into the app
Clipboard history with images, files, and notes
Images, files, notes — each with preview and edit at hand.

File shelf

A drop-zone that stages your drag-and-drop

Gathering files from five folders to drop into one place? Shelve them as you go, then drag the whole pile out where you need it.

  • Drop to hold — park files from anywhere without a temp folder
  • Gather over time — add more from different apps and windows
  • Drag out together — move the entire batch in a single gesture
  • Mixed content — files, images, and snippets side by side
File shelf mid drag-in, showing “Added 3 files”
Drop files in, gather more, drag them all out.

Dictation

On-device dictation, anywhere you type

Press to talk and Jackdaw types it out — in any app, in any language you’ve set up. The audio never leaves your Mac.

  • Fully on-device — private speech-to-text, no round trip to the cloud
  • Types anywhere — drops text into the app you’re already using
  • Multilingual — dictate complicated things in whatever language fits
  • Choose your input — pick the microphone Jackdaw listens on
Voice settings — on-device Parakeet model, mic picker, and dictionary
On-device model, your mic, and a personal dictionary.

Built for power users

The small things that make it a reflex

Jackdaw is tuned for people who copy, paste, and move files all day. Every corner is configurable — the details add up.

Jackdaw settings — auto-paste, launch at login, and pinned items
Settings, right down to auto-paste and pinned order.

Edge Gesture

Shove the cursor into a screen edge to summon Jackdaw — no hands off the mouse.

Keyboard-first

Arrow keys to scan, number keys to paste, Return to confirm. Built for muscle memory.

History retention

Keep an hour or keep it all. You decide how far back Jackdaw remembers.

Excluded apps

Name the apps Jackdaw should never watch — password managers, banking, whatever’s private.

Sensitive-data guard

Password-like copies are detected, masked, and never previewed in the open.

Light & dark

Adaptive materials that follow your system appearance, pixel for pixel.

Pricing

Simple, honest pricing.

Try every feature free for 14 days. Then keep it forever with a one-time purchase, or subscribe.

Perpetual

$25.00 one-time

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Monthly

$1.00 per month

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