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. Revolutionary, we know.

14 days free, then $2.99 once · on-device · apple silicon · no agents · no subscription

01
HOLD
Press your hotkey from inside whatever app you're already in. You don't have to be in the app you're typing into. Your hand doesn't leave the mouse.
02
SPEAK
Say it. A small overlay shows what it heard, in case the clanker gets creative with the word kubectl. Your active window stays put. Your standup stays oblivious.
03
RELEASE
Let go. The transcript gets tidied up and placed in your target app, the way a good waiter sets down a plate — quietly, correctly, and without small talk.
focusless

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. Your active window doesn't move. Apparently not interrupting you is now a feature.

on-device

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.

yours

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.

$2.99

$2.99. That's all the tiers.

14 days free. Then $2.99. Once. Forever. There is exactly one tier, because the people buying this have work to do. The CSM you were supposed to get is named Tyler. Tyler has been reassigned to a Series C agent startup with a valuation that also doesn't make sense.

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.

macOS 26 · apple silicon · ~15 MB · not electron · not a wrapper

you bought an app. you have an app. that's the entire relationship.