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.

Jackdaw

Clipboard, file shelf and dictation in one Mac app

Clipboard, file shelf and dictation in one Mac app