AI Copy & Paste for macOS
Every paste, a little more care.
Shikomi quietly improves what you copied — tone fixed, list cleaned, summary written — before you paste it.
One keystroke. No chat window.
Pre‑launch · Apple Silicon · macOS 26+
The intelligent layer
between copy and paste.
See it in five seconds
You copied this. Shikomi pasted that.
Soften a sharp message
Before
this is the third time I've asked. need it today or we're blocked.
After
Just a gentle nudge — we are blocked on this and would love to get it across the line today. Anything I can do to help?
Clean a messy list
Before
milk,eggs - bread (sourdough),, oat milk bananas coffee beans (medium roast)
After
• Milk • Eggs • Sourdough bread • Oat milk • Bananas • Coffee beans (medium roast)
Summarise a long quote
Before
After much deliberation across the team and several rounds of feedback from leadership, we have come to the conclusion that the proposed Q3 launch window may not provide sufficient runway for the engineering and design teams to land the work at the quality bar we have set…
After
Q3 launch is too tight. Quality bar at risk. Pushing the date.
How it works
Three seconds. No new habit.
01
Copy
Highlight any text in any app. Press ⌘C like you always do.
02
Press one key
Your hotkey runs the transform you want — tone, summary, list, translate.
03
Paste
⌘V into Slack, Mail, Notion, anywhere. The improved version is on your clipboard.
You don't open Shikomi. You don't prompt it. You just copy and paste — the way you always have.
Three things. That's all.
A small product, made well.
Shikomi does three things on purpose. Not thirty. Not a dashboard, not a chat thread, not a second brain.
The hotkey
Transform
Copy something. Press one key. Paste a better version. Tone fixed, list cleaned, summary written. No app to open. No prompt to write.
The review surface
Manaita
Open it when you want to look back. Recent clips, transformed versions, pinned items, multi‑clip stacks. Out of your way until you summon it.
The clean export
Handoff
Package what you copied as Markdown for the next tool to act on. Reminder batches, draft emails, calendar packets. Always reviewable before it leaves.
Why it's different
Other tools want you to come to them.
Shikomi stays where you already are.
vs. ChatGPT / Claude Desktop
Great for long tasks. Heavy for tiny ones.
Built for the thirty small transforms you do every day.
vs. Raycast Pro
A launcher with AI added.
Built from the clipboard outward — and at half the price.
vs. Paste
Remembers what you copied.
Understands it and improves it before you paste.
vs. Apple Writing Tools
Works only inside specific apps.
Works everywhere you copy — every app, every text field.
Private by design
Most transforms never leave your Mac.
On‑device first using Apple's foundation model. When a task needs the cloud, your own API key sends the request directly to your provider. We never run a server in between.
Every transform shows you which path it ran on. No surprises.
Pricing
Free forever. Pro when you want more.
No ads. No data selling. No lifetime lock‑in. Cancel anytime.
Free
$0 forever
- Every on‑device transform Shikomi can do
- Manaita with last 20 clips
- 5 Markdown handoff exports per week
- Apple Intelligence powered
Pro
$4.90
/ monthRegular price $9/month — locked in for waitlist.
- Everything in Free
- Bring your own API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, local)
- Unlimited Manaita history
- Unlimited Markdown handoff exports
- Priority updates & invoicing
Pro unlocks BYOK cloud routing — not prepaid model credits. Your API key, your cost. We never touch it.
Requirements
Built for Apple Silicon.
The on‑device story relies on Apple's foundation model. We tell you up‑front so there are no surprises at install.
Join the waitlist
Be among the first to paste better.
Drop your email. You'll get the download link the day we launch — and the launch price $4.90/month locked in.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Shikomi.
Copy. One key. Paste something better.
Quiet, careful, in‑flow. The way copy and paste should have always felt.
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