Cleat Wiki
Every feature,
written down.
25 pages covering what Cleat does, which key does it, where the files live and what each permission is for.
Basics
Getting startedInstall Cleat on macOS, press Option Space, and learn the three keys that do most of the work, plus which permission each feature asks for and when.Read →LauncherHow Cleat finds apps, files and commands on a Mac, how frecency decides what comes first, and how aliases and per item hotkeys skip the search entirely.Read →Instant answersCleat answers sums, unit conversions, colours, time zones, timestamps and dictionary lookups in the first row of the palette, and Return copies the result.Read →Actions, aliases and hotkeysPress Cmd K on any Cleat result for Quick Look, reveal in Finder, copy path or open with, and give it an alias or a global hotkey to skip searching.Read →
Tools
Clipboard historyCleat keeps every text, image and file you copy in a local database with its source app, and pastes back into the window you came from. Password managers are skipped.Read →Window managementSnap the front window on macOS to halves, thirds and quarters with Cleat, maximize, centre, move it to the next display, or save whole window layouts by name.Read →Snippets and text expansionCleat keeps snippets in one Markdown file and expands them by keyword in any app. Type ;sig and it becomes your signature. Placeholders fill the date and clipboard.Read →Emoji and quicklinksType a colon and a name for emoji anywhere in Cleat, and use keyword quicklinks like g, yt, so and mdn to search the sites you use without opening a browser tab first.Read →Import from Alfred or RaycastMove to Cleat from Alfred or Raycast. Cleat imports snippets from both with their keywords, and Alfred's clipboard history, into its own files in your home folder.Read →
Intelligence
Apple IntelligenceAsk questions and rewrite the clipboard with Apple's on-device model inside Cleat: fix grammar, summarize, pull key points, change the tone. Nothing leaves the Mac.Read →TranslationCleat translates through Apple's on-device Translation framework. Type tr and the text, pick a language, paste the result back. 38 languages, offline once installed.Read →
Extensions
ExtensionsA Cleat extension is an executable that prints JSON lines to stdout. No SDK, no build step, any language. The full protocol: manifest, list and action mode.Read →Bundled commandsThe 22 script commands Cleat installs on first run, from currency conversion and GitHub repos to emptying the trash, and where to read or edit each one.Read →Command directory and installing from a URLBrowse shared Cleat commands inside the palette, or paste a link to any script to install it. How the directory works, and why to read what you install first.Read →
System
Shortcuts and App ShortcutsRun your Shortcuts library from Cleat, plus the App Shortcuts other apps publish to Spotlight, and drive Cleat from Siri with its six App Intents.Read →Menu bar searchSearch the menu bar of the app you came from and run any menu command by name from Cleat, with its keyboard shortcut shown, or give a menu item a hotkey it never had.Read →Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and NotesCleat reads Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and Apple Notes from one search field: seven days of events with a Join button, plain language reminders, people to email.Read →DictationHold a key, talk, release, and Cleat pastes the words where your cursor was. Recognition uses macOS 26's on-device SpeechAnalyzer, so the audio never leaves the Mac.Read →Screen toolsPick a colour from anywhere on screen and get hex, RGB, HSL and SwiftUI, or drag a region and Cleat runs text recognition on it and copies the words.Read →
Reference
Keyboard shortcutsEvery default key in Cleat: Option Space to open, window snapping on Control Option, Cmd K for actions, Cmd 1 to 9 to pick a row directly. All rebindable.Read →URL schemeDrive Cleat from Shortcuts, scripts and other apps with cleat:// links. Every URL it answers, from opening the palette with a query to snapping a window by name.Read →SettingsWhat each tab of Cleat's settings holds, from appearance and launch at login to hotkeys, aliases and commands, and which file on disk every setting writes to.Read →Privacy and dataWhat Cleat stores, where each file lives in your home folder, what it never records, and the one request it makes over the network. No account, no server, no analytics.Read →LicensingCleat costs 29 dollars once, with a fourteen day trial and no activation server. How keys are verified on your Mac, and what the year of updates covers.Read →Requirements and permissionsCleat needs macOS 15 or later on Apple silicon, and macOS 26 for Apple Intelligence, translation and dictation. Every permission, and the feature behind it.Read →