Keyboard-first AI text pipeline for macOS.
Chain prompts, transform text, never leave your keyboard.
Free and open-source.

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• Why?
• How it works
• Features
• Comparison
• Default shortcuts
• Default prompts
• Install
• Requirements
• Acknowledgements
• License
• Support

ClipSlop lets you chain AI text transformations — translate, rewrite, format — as a single keyboard-driven pipeline, right where you're working.

Task: rewrite text professionally, translate to English, format as email.

Without ClipSlop (ChatGPT):

copy text → open ChatGPT → paste → "rewrite professionally" → wait → copy result →
paste back → copy again → ChatGPT → "translate to English" → wait → copy →
paste back → copy again → ChatGPT → "format as email" → wait → copy → paste back

With ClipSlop:

⌃⌘C → RB → TE → FE → done.

Each key combo picks a prompt from the tree — RB Rewrite → Business, TE Translate → English, FE Format → Email. Every step is saved, arrow keys to go back, branch from any point. No browser, no copy-paste, no tab switching.

Free, open-source, any AI provider.

Select text → ⌃⌘C → Navigate prompts with keys → Chain transformations → Copy result

1. Trigger — Select text anywhere, press ⌃⌘C. Text appears in a floating panel.
2. Navigate — Prompt tree with single-key mnemonics: T → Translate, R → Rewrite, F → Format. Drill into folders, pick a prompt — one keypress each.
3. Chain — Result becomes input for the next prompt. Translate → Elaborate → Format as Email. Each step saved.
4. History — Arrow keys navigate the full transformation chain. Jump to any step, branch off.
5. Use — Copy (⌘C), edit (⌘E), save (⌘S), or keep chaining.

• Full pipeline — Chain unlimited transformations, navigate history with arrow keys, branch from any step
• Keyboard-first — Single-key mnemonics for prompt navigation, all actions have shortcuts
• Multi-provider — OpenAI (sign in with ChatGPT or API key), Anthropic, Ollama, CLI tools, any OpenAI-compatible API
• Nested prompt tree — Organize prompts in folders, each with a mnemonic key
• Built-in prompts — Translate (18 languages), Rewrite (7 tones), Format (7 tools), Dev (6 tools), Analyze (4), Convert
• Manual editing — Edit any result inline (⌘E), saved as a history step
• Find in text — ⌘F search with highlighting across all display modes
• Screen OCR — Capture and recognize text from any screen region (⇧⌘2)
• Blank editor — Open an empty editor (⌃⌘N), write text, run prompts on it
• Generate prompts with AI — Describe what you want, AI writes the system prompt
• Per-prompt settings — Override provider, display mode per prompt
• Import/Export — Share prompt configurations as JSON
• iCloud Sync — Prompts sync across Macs
• Temperature & reasoning — Per-provider temperature control, reasoning effort for ChatGPT models
• Multiple display modes — Plain text, Markdown (native or HTML renderer), HTML
• Adjustable UI — Opacity, size, theme, launch at login

[⌘Enter] >> Your prompt — type >> followed by your instruction to run a one-off custom prompt
[T]  Translate   → English, Finnish, Russian, Spanish, French, German, + 12 more
[R]  Rewrite     → Elaborate, Neutral, Professional, Warm, Business, Playful, Biblical
[F]  Format      → Fix Grammar, Clean Up, Beautify Code, Reformat, Email, Markdownify, HTMLify
[D]  Dev         → Add Comments, Beautify Code, Clean Logs, Explain Code, Explain Stack Trace, Naming
[A]  Analyze     → Summary, Explain Simply, TL;DR, Condense 20%
[C]  Convert     → HTML, Markdown

Fully customizable — add your own prompts, folders, and mnemonics in Settings → Prompts.

brew tap mekedron/tap
brew install --cask clipslop

Grab the latest .dmg from Releases. Drag to Applications.

ClipSlop is not signed with an Apple Developer certificate, so macOS will block it on first launch. This is expected — I simply don't want to pay Apple $99/year for a developer account.

The app is safe. The source code is fully open, and all release builds are produced automatically by GitHub Actions — nothing is added to the binary that isn't in this repository.

To open ClipSlop:

1. Drag ClipSlop.app to your Applications folder
2. Double-click to open — macOS will show a warning and refuse
3. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security
4. Scroll down — you'll see "ClipSlop was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer"
5. Click Open Anyway, then confirm

You only need to do this once. After that, the app opens normally.

Because the app is unsigned, macOS may change its internal bundle identifier between versions. When this happens, previously granted permissions (Accessibility, Screen Recording) stop working. To fix this:

1. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility
2. Find ClipSlop in the list and remove it (select → click "−")
3. Click "+" and re-add ClipSlop.app from your Applications folder
4. Do the same for Screen Recording if you use the OCR feature

This is an unfortunate side effect of not having a signed app. Your prompts, providers, and settings are not affected.

git clone https://github.com/mekedron/ClipSlop.git
cd ClipSlop
swift build
# Or open Package.swift in Xcode → Run

Requires macOS 14+ and Xcode with Swift 6.0+.

• macOS 14.0+
• An AI provider: sign in with ChatGPT (free), API key (Anthropic, OpenAI), local Ollama, or CLI tools

ClipSlop is built with these open-source libraries:

• KeyboardShortcuts by Sindre Sorhus — customizable global keyboard shortcuts
• LaunchAtLogin by Sindre Sorhus — launch at login support
• Sparkle — software update framework for macOS
• swift-markdown by Apple / Swift Project — Markdown parsing and rendering
• Textual by Guillermo Gonzalez — native SwiftUI Markdown rendering
• swift-rich-html-editor by Infomaniak — WYSIWYG rich HTML editor
• Lobe Icons by LobeHub — provider icons for OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, Claude, Codex

MIT License — see LICENSE.

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