An AI buddy that sees your screen — and shows you exactly what leaves your Mac.

Press a hotkey. Klicsy screenshots what you see, blacks out your emails, card numbers, and keys on-device, shows you the redacted capture, and only sends it when you say so. Then it answers — and points at things on your screen.

Download for macOS
free forever bring your own key works offline MIT source

Indie build, not yet notarized: right-click → Open the first time. Or cargo build it yourself — every line is public.

What the review gate looks like
To: sarah.chen@acme.com
Card on file: 4929 1156 8823 0041
API key: sk-ant-a03x…9f2
Meeting moved to Thursday — can you update the invoice before then?
3 detected items redacted — anything else visible will be sent as-is.
CancelSend

Privacy is the pipeline, not a promise

Every capture goes through five stages before a single pixel leaves your machine. The gate is enforced in Rust, below the UI — a buggy or compromised interface can't skip it.

01
Blocklist
Password managers and banking apps refuse capture outright.
02
On-device OCR
Apple Vision reads the screen locally. Nothing is uploaded to read it.
03
Redaction
Emails, cards, IBANs, phone numbers, API keys — blacked out at the pixel level.
04
You review
See the exact image that would upload. Send or cancel. Stale captures expire.
05
Answer + point
Streamed reply, with annotations drawn on your real screen.

What leaves your machine

Your chosen AI provider

The redacted capture and your prompt go to the provider you configured, with your key — never through our servers. We don't have servers.

GitHub, once a day

An update check against our public releases page. Signed updates, keys you can verify.

Nothing else. Ever.

No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporters. Quit the app and every process ends. Read our adversarial security review — bugs found, fixes linked.

Run it for actually $0

Klicsy is free and never meters you. Pair it with an official free-tier key — or a local model — and your total cost is zero.

Ollama
offline · unlimited
Gemini
~1,500 req/day free
Groq
14,400 req/day free
Mistral
free tier
NVIDIA NIM
10,000 req/day free
OpenRouter
:free models

Coming from Clicky?

HeyClicky is a polished product — and a cloud subscription with capped messages. Klicsy is built on the opposite premise.

Clicky (HeyClicky)Klicsy
Processing100% cloud; AI analyses retainedOn-device OCR + redaction; you review before anything uploads
Price$20–100/mo, capped agent messagesFree; no caps — your key, your provider
OfflineNoYes, with Ollama
TelemetryPostHog + Sentry (per their privacy policy)None
SourceProprietaryMIT — audit every claim

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