HEY! CLANKER! OVER THERE!
Voice dictation for macOS that types into an app you're not using. Hold a key, speak, release. The text lands in your target app. Your game doesn't pause, your cursor doesn't jump, your standup doesn't notice. It's a button and a microphone, behaving like a button and a microphone. Other dictation apps spent this year shipping subscription tiers, AI agents, and "thought partners." We did not.
Type into the app behind the app.
Every other voice tool yanks focus to type. HeyClanker doesn't. Pair-program with Claude Code while answering in Discord. Write a Slack reply without leaving your editor. Dictate into Notes on a second monitor while Logic keeps playing on the first. No alt-tab, no AI agent kindly switching windows for you and then volunteering to also rewrite the message in a more impactful tone. Your active window doesn't move. Apparently not interrupting you is now a feature.
Your voice never leaves your Mac.
Transcription runs locally via WhisperKit. Apple Intelligence cleans it up, also on-device. No backend, no dashboard, no privacy policy buried with "we retain transcripts for quality and training purposes." Want a cloud engine instead? Bring an API key. Your keys, your data, your choice - nothing rides on ours.
Every hotkey. Every target. Every trigger.
Multiple hotkeys, each pointing at a different target app. Trigger words that fire key combos or drop in canned text. Automation before you speak and after. Workflows you wired up on purpose - not ones a clanker vibe-coded into a critical security vulnerability at 2am while you were asleep.
Speaks 100+ languages. None of them call home.
Three on-device engines between them cover everything from Mandarin to Norwegian to that very specific dialect of English that engineers use. None call a server. None charge per minute. None require a "Multilingual Pro" tier that magically appeared in last quarter's pricing update. The cloud option exists too, if you'd rather pay OpenAI per syllable - most people won't need it.
Knows that "kubectl" is not "cube control."
Type your jargon into a list - terminal commands, internal product names, the proper nouns every other dictation tool turns into something embarrassing. The recognizer biases toward your terms while you talk. The list lives on your Mac. Nothing trains. Nothing uploads. Nothing winds up in next quarter's "voice intelligence dataset" the company will swear is fully anonymized.
$2.99. That's all the tiers.
14 days free. Then $2.99. Once. Forever. One tier, because nobody should have to read a feature comparison chart for a $3 Mac app. No "we've reluctantly added AI and unfortunately need to move to a subscription model" email next quarter. No exit survey if you delete the app, no "sorry to see you go" email with a 25% discount attached to win you back, no AI agent reaching out to "understand the friction." You pay once and you keep using it. Forever isn't marketing language here - it's the actual deal.
acquire clanker.
14 days free. Then $2.99, once. if it doesn't earn a hotkey on your keyboard, drag it to the trash and we part as friends. no exit survey - we're not trying to learn from you.
you bought an app. you have an app. that's the entire relationship.