Copy text, code, or an error message. Hit ⌘⇧V. Pick an action. The on-device model transforms it in seconds — no cloud, no API keys, no data leaving your Mac.
No setup beyond installation. Just copy whatever you're working with and hit the hotkey.
Grab text, code, a stack trace, a shell command, or JSON from anywhere on your Mac. The app detects the content type automatically.
The menu bar popover opens showing tailored actions for what's in your clipboard — different suggestions for prose, code, errors, and JSON.
Choose an action. Apple's on-device model runs it in seconds. The result lands in your clipboard ready to paste — or use the result panel to review and edit first.
Smart content detection means the right actions appear for whatever you copied — prose, code, errors, or JSON.
Fix grammar, make it more formal or casual, translate, summarise, convert to bullet points — tailored to prose.
Explain, find bugs, add comments, simplify — switched on automatically when you copy code.
Side-by-side original and result. Edit in place, copy to clipboard, or run the action again in one tap.
Every successful transformation is saved locally so you can re-copy or revisit past results without rerunning.
Designed around the fastest possible copy → transform → paste flow.
Powered by Apple Intelligence via apfel. No API keys, no network calls, no data sent anywhere.
Detects text, code, JSON, errors, and shell commands automatically. Shows only the relevant actions.
⌘⇧V opens the popover from anywhere, no matter what app is focused. Works from the menu bar too.
Turn any custom prompt into a named, icon-tagged action. It shows up in the action list automatically.
Star your most-used actions, hide ones you don't use, drag to reorder. Your list, your way.
Enable auto-copy and transformed text lands in your clipboard the moment the model finishes — zero extra clicks.
apfel-clip runs entirely on your Mac using Apple's on-device model. You need all three of these.
Required for Apple Intelligence. Check Apple menu → System Settings → General → Software Update.
Apple Intelligence only runs on Apple Silicon. Check Apple menu → About This Mac — it should say M1, M2, M3, or M4.
Enable it in System Settings → Apple Intelligence & Siri → Apple Intelligence. Requires an English device language.
Also needed: apfel — the on-device AI engine. Packaged builds (install script, Homebrew, zip download) embed it inside the app bundle automatically. Only needed separately if you build from source: brew install Arthur-Ficial/tap/apfel
All methods install apfel-clip.app to /Applications with apfel already embedded — no extra setup.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel-clip/main/scripts/install.sh | zsh
Downloads the latest release, installs apfel-clip.app to /Applications, and links apfel-clip into ~/.local/bin. Requires zsh (default on macOS).
# Add the tap once, then install
brew tap Arthur-Ficial/tap
brew install --cask apfel-clip
The --cask flag is required. Updates via brew upgrade --cask apfel-clip.
Don't have Homebrew? Install it first at brew.sh.
Download, unzip, drag to /Applications.
↓ apfel-clip-macos-arm64.zipSHA-256 checksums in each release. Apple Silicon only.
git clone https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel-clip.git cd apfel-clip make install
Requires Xcode command-line tools and apfel on PATH.
⚠️ Gatekeeper warning
On first launch macOS may block the app because it isn't notarised. To open it:
Right-click (or Control-click) apfel-clip.app → Open → Open
You only need to do this once. The warning won't appear again.
Uninstall: Delete /Applications/apfel-clip.app.
Settings are stored in ~/Library/Preferences and history in ~/Library/Application Support/apfel-clip. Delete those folders to wipe all data.
apfel-clip is MIT-licensed. Use it, fork it, ship it in your own projects. Contributions welcome — bug reports, pull requests, and new action ideas.