LocalClicky is a Mac menubar app that lets you talk to your computer and have it actually do things — with nothing leaving the machine. Say “Computer” to start a session, chain commands back to back, and say “goodbye” when you’re done.
## Fully local by design
The pitch is a privacy inversion. Most voice assistants trade convenience for your data: audio uploaded, screenshots sent to a server, commands logged. LocalClicky runs the whole stack on-device — voice transcription, the LLM, voice-activity detection, and macOS’s built-in speech — so there are no API keys, no subscription, and no data leaving your Mac.
## Open and free
It’s MIT licensed, which means you can read exactly what it does and run it without trusting a vendor. That matters for a tool that, by definition, listens to your microphone and controls your computer. For anyone who wanted Mac voice control but balked at piping their desk audio into someone else’s cloud, this is the version that doesn’t ask you to.

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