Why Codiclens exists

Type a few letters to pick an app, a file, something you copied or an emoji. Press Tab and choose what to do: open it with another app, move it to a folder, rotate an image or pull the text out of one. It all works from the keyboard.

It also keeps a history of what you copy, so the thing you copied an hour ago is a few keys away.

File names only get you so far. If you turn on search by meaning, Codiclens learns what your files are about, so typing flights can find a voice memo where you talked about booking one. It's an optional download, and it runs on your Mac. Voice memos and pictures need the 865 MB download; text alone is 310 MB.

A launcher sees your files, your clipboard and everything you search for. None of that should leave your computer, so it doesn't. Codiclens has no account and collects nothing. The privacy page lists the few requests it does make.

Codiclens is made by Emil Lykke Grann, who also makes Codictate, a dictation app for Mac that also runs on your own machine. That's why Codiclens can transcribe audio files: it hands them to Codictate.

Codiclens is free and open source under Apache 2.0. The code is on GitHub, and if it saves you time, there's a Ko-fi.