Hey Piclo
Your voice, turned into clarity, action, and freedom. Privately.
Download for macOSTwo gestures, two intents
Dictation and commands never collide, because they live on different keys. No wake word, no window to find.
Double-tap Control, speak, tap twice again. Your words are transcribed on your Mac, cleaned up, and typed into whatever app you're writing in.
Select some text, hold the key, and say what to do with it. Piclo edits, transforms, or researches in place.
Say what you want done
Command Mode is the part that feels new. Select anything, hold Left Command, and speak an instruction about it. Plain words, real edits.
It picks the right model for the job, from quick edits to web research, using the AI keys you choose to bring.
Private by construction, not by policy
The privacy claims are properties of the code, not promises in a document.
- Audio is never written to disk. It lives in memory and is wiped after transcription. There is no code path that saves it.
- Transcription is 100% on-device, powered by Whisper running on your Mac.
- No account, no telemetry, nothing phones home. The only network calls are the ones you set up.
- Cloud AI is optional and yours. Bring your own Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini key, stored in the macOS Keychain, sent to that one provider and nowhere else.
- Or skip the cloud entirely. Piclo works with any local model server, like Ollama or LM Studio, so cleanup runs on your machine too.
One switch that guarantees nothing leaves your Mac. Transcription and cleanup both run locally, and the app refuses every cloud call while it's on. Flip it whenever you're about to say something sensitive.
In the beta
Hey Piclo is early and moving fast. Updates ship often and install themselves, auto-update is built in.
Something broke, or you wish it did something it doesn't? Tell John what broke or what you wish it did. Every note gets read.