Control your Mac by voice, without leaving the keyboard.

What you can say today

These work in the current beta. Each one is the whole thing you say, with nothing before or after it.

• Switch to Terminal. Brings an app that is already running to the front. It never launches one.
• Open Notes. Opens an app you have allowed in Settings.
• Quit Preview. Quits politely: if there is unsaved work, the save prompt still appears.
• Run End of day. Runs one of your Apple Shortcuts in the background. Your app keeps focus.
• Run Add task with buy milk. Hands the words after "with" to a Shortcut you have marked to accept them.
• Ask Claude what rhymes with orange. Opens Claude with your words, ready to send. ChatGPT and search engines work the same way.
• Press Return. Presses Return in the app you were in, for example to send a chat message.
• Scratch that. Presses Undo, which takes back your last dictation in that app.
• Save this as meeting link. Keeps what you copied under a name. Paste meeting link. brings it back.
• Quick note: call Mara tomorrow. Saves the thought to your notes with the date, instead of pasting it.

You can give apps your own nicknames, and change the words for every command in Settings. Help > What to Say lists everything Clarify listens for.

Commands only when you mean them

Clarify acts only when everything you said is a command. "Switch to Terminal." switches. "Remind me to switch to Terminal after lunch." is a sentence, so it is typed as one. Apps you can open or quit and Shortcuts you can run are the ones you choose in Settings, nothing else.

It listens only while you hold the key, and speech recognition runs on your Mac. There's no account.

Coming in version 1

• Coming in v1 Chains, such as "Open Safari, then paste the clip", with an honest result for each step
• Coming in v1 Window control: close, minimize, snap and move windows
• Coming in v1 Screen commands such as "click Send", using the app's own accessibility information
• Coming in v1 Compose: think out loud, and get back a reply, a list or a commit message shaped to the app you're in
• Coming in v1 Siri, Claude and coding agents can use Clarify through App Intents, a command-line tool and MCP

Clarify or Apple's Voice Control?

macOS already includes Voice Control, free, in System Settings > Accessibility. It is built for using your Mac entirely by voice: once you turn it on, it listens for commands like "Open Mail" or "Click Done" until you say "Stop listening", and you can dictate and edit text with it. Its custom commands can run a Shortcut, open a URL, paste text or press a keyboard shortcut.

On Apple silicon Macs there is also Vocal Shortcuts: you teach your Mac a word or sound of your choosing, and saying it performs one action, such as a Siri request. Apple says its audio is processed on device. It suits a handful of actions you use often.

If you need to use your Mac without your hands, use Voice Control. Clarify is not an accessibility tool. It is for people who type most of the day and want dictation and quick actions behind one key they hold.