Free for now macOS 14+ Menu-bar app

Your Mac,one hotkey away.

FlowSnip lives in your menu bar. Press a shortcut to ask Grok a question, talk hands-free, dictate into any app, grab the screen, or launch an app. It also keeps your clipboard history on your Mac.

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v1.1.26Apple Silicon + IntelBring your own xAI key

AraListening…

You askedWhat did I copy about the launch checklist?

Illustrations rebuilt from the app’s layout · sample content

Ask⌃⌥ Space

Talk⌃⌥⇧ Space

Dictate⇧⌘ 1

Capture⌘⌥⇧ 2

Drop Zone⇧⌘ D

Launcher⌘ Space

What it does

One small icon. A whole lot of Mac.

No window to manage and no Dock icon. FlowSnip stays out of the way until you press a key, then gets out of the way again.

Ask: one question, one answer

Press the hotkey, say what you need, and hear Grok answer out loud. Hit Escape to stop early.

⌃⌥ Space

Talk: a real conversation

Go back and forth hands-free with live captions on screen. It keeps listening until you press Escape or the hotkey.

⌃⌥⇧ Space

Dictate anywhere

Tap to latch or hold to talk. English dictation via xAI. The text lands on your clipboard, and can optionally paste itself into the app you’re using.

⇧⌘ 1

Capture and read the screen

Grab the screen and FlowSnip reads the text on-device with Apple Vision, then you can ask about it. Add a voice note if you like.

⌘⌥⇧ 2

Summarize Selection

Highlight text anywhere, press the shortcut, and hear a short summary. Then follow up by voice. The text is saved to your history.

⌘⌥⇧ C

A keyboard launcher

Type the start of an app name and press Return. It also finds System Settings panes like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Keyboard.

⌘ Space

Clipboard memory

Text and image history, favorites, a prompt library and saved conversations, kept on your Mac. Grok can recall them when you ask.

Pick your voice

Pick from 28 Grok voices (default: Ara) and set playback speed. Build agents with their own voice, personality, notes and hotkey; they share one memory. Optionally speak with ElevenLabs.

Desk Light

A soft light that shines from the bottom of your screen. Toggle it with a shortcut and dim it from the menu.

⇧⌘ L

How it works

From download to first answer in about two minutes.

01 / INSTALL

Drop it in Applications

Open the DMG, drag FlowSnip to Applications and launch it. The icon appears in your menu bar. Allow microphone access when macOS asks.

02 / CONNECT

Bring your own xAI key

Paste your xAI API key in Settings. The key is stored in your macOS Keychain.

03 / PRESS

Hit a hotkey and speak

Press ⌃⌥ Space to ask, or ⌃⌥⇧ Space to talk. Every shortcut can be remapped from the menu.

Ask & Talk

Say it. Hear it. Keep going.

Ask for a quick answer, or hold a conversation with live captions floating on screen. FlowSnip uses xAI’s Grok realtime voice, so answers come back as streamed speech.

Ask answers a single question, then stops.
Talk keeps the conversation going until you press Escape.
Recall: ask Grok about earlier conversations, prompts, copied text or images. Memory is searched only when you ask.
Speed and voice: default Grok voice is Ara at 1.5× playback. Both are adjustable.

AraTalking · Esc to stop

You: Summarize my last three copiesYou copied a launch checklist, a link to your notes, and a grocery reminder. Want me to turn the checklist into steps?

Illustration · sample conversation

Capture

Grab the screen. Ask about it.

Pick what to capture and FlowSnip reads it with Apple’s on-device Vision OCR first. Text-heavy pages are understood straight away, and the extracted text can go into Ask or Talk.

On-device first: text is read locally. Raw images are never sent to xAI.
Optional local vision: if you run Ollama on your Mac, FlowSnip can use an installed vision model for charts and photos. Otherwise it falls back to local image labels.
Voice notes and webhooks: after a capture, optionally record a voice note. If you turn on a webhook, the capture, including the image, is sent to the URL you set.
Drop Zone: drop a file or press ⇧⌘ D to start a brainstorm from it.

OCR text read on this Mac

Illustration · sample screen

Launcher & clipboard

Open anything. Find everything you copied.

The launcher opens apps and System Settings panes from the keyboard. The clipboard keeps what you copy, so a link from this morning is still there (up to the history limit you set).

Launcher: type, arrow to a result, press Return. It searches /Applications, ~/Applications and system apps. Remap the key if Spotlight already owns ⌘Space.
Clipboard history: configurable text and image history, kept locally, with copy, Ask, Talk and save actions.
Favorites: bookmark clipboard text to pin it at the top of the menu. Hover any row to read the full text.
Prompt library: a searchable, editable library of prompts linked to the conversations they came from.

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BBluetoothSystem Settings

BBluetooth File ExchangeApp

↑↓ choose · Return open · Esc dismiss

Clipboard

Launch checklist: DMG, notes, announce

https://example.com/launch-notes

Pick up oat milk and coffee filters

Illustration · sample content

Settings

Yours to tune.

Six tabs cover everything: AI, Memory, API keys, Agents, Light and About. Every shortcut can be remapped from the menu without opening Settings.

AI: voice, speed, launcher, dictation, clipboard history and launch at login.
Memory: local memory index, workflow memory and optional Ollama vision model.
API keys: xAI, ElevenLabs and an optional webhook.
Agents: voice, personality, notes, TTS provider and optional hotkey per agent. All agents share one memory. Right-click the menu-bar icon to switch.

FlowSnip Settings

Grok voiceUsed by Ask and TalkAra

Playback speed1.5×

Speak withGrok still does the thinkingGrok ▾

Launcher widthRegular ▾

Clipboard text historyStored locally100 items

Clipboard image history20 items

Local vision modelImages go only to Ollama on 127.0.0.1Optional ▾

Workflow memoryResettable at any time

xAI API keySaved in Keychain••••••••••••3f9a

ElevenLabsAPI key + voice IDOptional

Send captures to a webhookRecord a voice note after capture

✓ AraDefault agent · Grok voiceSelected

Research partnerYour own personaEdit

EditorYour own personaEdit

Desk LightShine from the bottom of the screen

Brightness75%

HeightDesk

FlowSnipMenu-bar voice assistant and clipboard memoryv1.1.26

PermissionsMicrophone · AccessibilityCheck

Illustration · tabs are clickable

Privacy

What stays on your Mac, and what doesn’t.

FlowSnip has no FlowSnip account, and we found no analytics, telemetry or crash reporting in its code. Here is exactly where your data lives and what leaves your machine.

Stays on your Mac

Clipboard history, favorites, prompts and conversations are stored in FlowSnip’s Application Support folder.
Clipboard history is saved as plain JSON, not encrypted by the app, and there is no filter for password-manager copies. Everything you copy is stored, so turn history off in Settings if that matters to you.
The memory index is a local SQLite full-text search you can rebuild or reset.
Screenshot text is read on-device with Apple Vision, and raw images are never uploaded to xAI.
Your API keys (xAI, ElevenLabs, webhook sender key) live in the macOS Keychain.
Works offline: Apple Vision OCR and Ollama image descriptions run locally. Voice and dictation need xAI.

What gets sent, and to whom

To xAI (your own account): your voice, plus the text of what you ask or talk about, including OCR text if you choose to ask about a capture.
To ElevenLabs: reply text to be spoken, only if an agent uses ElevenLabs voice.
To your webhook: captures stay local unless you turn on the webhook, which sends the capture, including the image, to your URL.
To Ollama: images, only to a model on 127.0.0.1 on your own Mac.

Your use of xAI’s voice service is governed by xAI’s own terms and your own account. FlowSnip does not proxy your audio or text through a server of ours. Memory is searched only when you explicitly ask Ask or Talk to recall something.

System requirements

What you need.

macOS14 Sonoma+

Menu-bar app, no Dock icon.

ChipApple Silicon or Intel

Universal build.

AccountxAI API key

With Voice access. Used for voice, speech-to-text and Grok text-to-speech.

OptionalOllama

For detailed local image recall on 127.0.0.1:11434.

Microphone

Required so you can speak to Ask, Talk and Dictate.

Accessibility

For Summarize Selection and optional auto-paste after dictation.

Screen Recording

Needed for Capture, so macOS may ask you to allow it the first time you capture.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Is FlowSnip really free?

Yes, FlowSnip is free to download and use for now. You do need your own xAI account for the voice features, and xAI’s usage is billed by xAI according to your own plan.

Do I need an xAI account?

Yes. Ask, Talk and Dictate use xAI’s Grok voice services. Paste your own xAI API key in Settings. FlowSnip doesn’t include a key.

Where is my data stored?

Clipboard history, conversations, prompts and the memory index are stored on your Mac in FlowSnip’s Application Support folder. API keys are in the macOS Keychain. Files are plain, unencrypted files (FileVault protects them if you use it). See the Privacy section above for exactly what is sent to xAI, ElevenLabs, a webhook or Ollama, and when.

Does it work offline?

Partly. Apple Vision OCR and Ollama image descriptions run on your Mac, as do clipboard history, the launcher and Desk Light. Ask, Talk and Dictate need xAI and an internet connection. Dictation is English only.

Does it work on Intel Macs?

Yes, FlowSnip is a universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel, and requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

Why does ⌘Space not open the launcher?

macOS Spotlight owns ⌘Space by default. You can either free it in System Settings › Keyboard › Keyboard Shortcuts › Spotlight, or remap the launcher shortcut from the menu-bar panel. FlowSnip keeps running and shows a conflict status instead of failing.

Can I change the shortcuts?

Yes. Every action has a hotkey chip under its icon in the menu-bar panel. Click it to record a new shortcut.

Which permissions does it need and why?

Microphone for voice, Accessibility for Summarize Selection and optional auto-paste, and Screen Recording for Capture. You can leave out anything you don’t use.

Get FlowSnip for Mac.

Free for now. macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Universal for Apple Silicon and Intel.

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