{"slug": "show-hn-local-ai-clipboard-actions", "title": "Show HN: Local AI Clipboard Actions", "summary": "Developer Arthur Ficial released apfel-clip, a free macOS app that uses Apple's on-device AI model to transform clipboard content via a hotkey (⌘⇧V) without sending data to the cloud. The app detects content types such as text, code, JSON, and errors, offering tailored actions like grammar fixes, code explanations, and translations, all processed locally on Apple Silicon Macs. apfel-clip is MIT-licensed, signed and notarized by Apple, and available via direct download or Homebrew.", "body_md": "Copy anything. Hit **⌘⇧V**. Pick an action. On-device AI transforms it in seconds. No cloud, no API keys, nothing leaves your Mac.\n\nNo setup beyond installation. Just copy and hit the hotkey.\n\nText, code, a stack trace, JSON. The app detects the content type and shows the right actions automatically.\n\nThe popover opens from any app with tailored actions for prose, code, errors, or JSON.\n\nRun an action. The result lands in your clipboard ready to paste, or review it first in the result panel.\n\napfel-clip runs entirely on your Mac using Apple's on-device model.\n\nRequired for Apple Intelligence. Apple menu > System Settings > Software Update.\n\nApple Intelligence runs on-chip only. Apple menu > About This Mac must say M1, M2, M3, or M4.\n\nEnable in System Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri. Requires English device language.\n\nFree. Signed and notarised. Apple Silicon only.\n\nDownload the zip, unzip, drag **apfel-clip.app** to your Applications folder, and open it. That is it.\n\nSigned and notarised by Apple. macOS opens it without any security warning.\n\n```\nbrew install --cask arthur-ficial/tap/apfel-clip\n```\n\nHandles updates with `brew upgrade --cask apfel-clip`\n\n.\n\nSee [GitHub](https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel-clip) for full build instructions.\n\nDesigned around the fastest copy, transform, paste flow.\n\nNo API keys, no network calls, no data sent anywhere. Powered by [apfel](https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel) — bundled inside.\n\nDetects text, code, JSON, and errors. Shows only the relevant actions for what you copied.\n\n⌘⇧V opens the popover from any app, any time, no matter what is focused.\n\nTurn any prompt into a named action with a label. It shows up in the action list automatically.\n\nStar, hide, and drag to sort your action list. Your workflow, your order.\n\nEnable auto-copy and the transformed text lands in your clipboard the moment the model finishes.\n\nSmart content detection shows the right actions for whatever you copied.\n\nFix grammar, rewrite tone, translate, summarise, bullet points.\n\nExplain, find bugs, add comments, simplify. Switched on automatically when you copy code.\n\nSide-by-side original and result. Edit in place, copy, or run the action again.\n\nEvery transformation saved locally. Re-copy or revisit past results without rerunning.\n\nMIT-licensed. Use it, fork it, ship it. Bug reports, pull requests, and new action ideas all welcome.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-local-ai-clipboard-actions", "canonical_source": "https://apfel-clip.franzai.com/", "published_at": "2026-07-28 19:04:47+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-28 19:22:42.465278+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Arthur Ficial", "apfel-clip", "Apple", "Apple Silicon", "GitHub", "Homebrew"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-local-ai-clipboard-actions", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-local-ai-clipboard-actions.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-local-ai-clipboard-actions.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-local-ai-clipboard-actions.jsonld"}}