Your Mac.
At the edge of the screen.

No. The sensitive zone is exactly as thick as the line, six points, and Tack+ asks for a firm push of ten points against the edge. A click that passes through the edge to hit a Dock icon won't open it.

It drives the indicator, never the key: your typing isn't altered. When it's on, it listens to the keyboard read-only (the “Input Monitoring” permission, the same one that lights the LED) and keeps only the moment of each keystroke: the character is never read, stored or sent. A single setting, off by default.

No. The module only appears if Mac+ is installed on this Mac. Tack+ works on its own.

Every Mac on macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon or Intel. About thirty megabytes on disk. The optional assistant needs Apple silicon.

What Tack+ reads, messages, calendar or clipboard, never leaves this Mac. What travels: your account, and four settings that follow you from one Mac to the next (notepad, Shortcuts favorites, music source, home layout).

$4.99 USD a month, after a three-day free trial with no card needed. Every feature and every update, on all your Macs. Cancel anytime from the customer portal: your subscription runs to the end of the month you've paid for. Bought Tack+ before the subscription? Your license stays valid for life.

Try it first: three days, free, no card. Once subscribed, you can cancel whenever you like. And within fourteen days of subscribing, one email is enough to get a refund.

Yes. You create it in the app, and it starts your three-day trial; then it holds your subscription and carries four settings from one Mac to the next. Offline, the saved session is enough: Tack+ won't ask again.

Yes, both, your choice. The Music module drives Spotify or Apple Music right in the panel: playback, volume, position, artwork. The switch lives in the player's header, one click away.

Yes. Every Cmd+C joins the history at the edge of the screen: text, links, color codes. One click puts an item back on the clipboard, ready to paste. The history lives in a file on this Mac and never leaves it.

Placed at the top, the line wraps around the camera notch. Closed, its wings show the album artwork, the Focus timer, the assistant at work, dictation or a call in progress; open, the date on one side and the time on the other.

Six languages: French, English, Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese. Both the app and the site follow your Mac's language, automatically.

An optional, local AI for Macs with Apple silicon. Its model, Qwen3.5 4B, weighs 2.74 GB and runs on your Mac: ask it to tidy a folder, add an event to your calendar, send a message or take a note. Your requests are not sent to any AI service.

Not without you. Before it moves, renames or deletes anything, sends a message or empties the Trash, it shows what it is about to do and waits for your go-ahead. What it deletes goes to the Trash, and the last request can be undone. It never pays for anything and never types a password.

Yes, once its model is downloaded. Everything that touches your files, apps and notes happens offline. It only goes online when you ask it to: open a website, run a search, read a page.

Nine: Assistant (on Macs with Apple silicon), Weather, Monitor (processor, memory, temperature), To Do, GitHub, Google Calendar, Clocks, Countdown and Month. You place them on the home view from the “+” in edit mode, large or small, and remove them the same way.

Yes, it is called Focus. Focus sessions, a short break, a long break and cycles, all adjustable; sessions follow one another by hand or on their own. With the panel closed, the countdown stays in sight, in the notch or on the line.

Yes, since version 1.0.64. Hold ⌥⇧ Space, speak, let go: the sentence is written where the cursor is, in any app. A tap keeps listening open, hands-free, and Esc cancels. Nine languages: French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The shortcut can be changed on the Dictation page, since version 1.0.65. Since 1.0.66, a single key is enough: Fn, or the right ⌘, ⌥ or ⌃.

No. Transcription is done by macOS speech recognition, on your Mac. The audio goes from the microphone to a temporary file, deleted as soon as the text is returned: it is neither kept nor sent, to Apple or to us. The microphone is only open while you dictate.

Yes, since version 1.0.71. When Zoom, Teams, FaceTime, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp or a browser opens the microphone, the notch offers to transcribe. Each sentence appears about a second after the person stops talking, labelled “You” (your microphone) or “Them” (the call's sound, from macOS 14.2). No bot joins the meeting. With the assistant installed, the call is summarised in a few lines and its action items go to To-do in one click. Tell the participants before you start.

No. Each sentence is transcribed by macOS speech recognition on your Mac, then its audio file is deleted: the audio is neither kept nor sent. Only the text remains, in a Tack+ file on your Mac that is never synced. The summary is written by the assistant's local model, on the Mac as well.

Yes. Tack+ places its line on every connected screen, and the panel opens on the screen where you push the pointer. The wings around the camera appear only on a screen with a notch; everywhere else Tack+ stays a thin line that opens the same panel.

Measured on 30 October 2026 on a MacBook Air M4 with the panel closed: about 0.5% of one CPU core for Tack+ 1.0.76. That's one Mac on one day: you can check yours in the Energy tab of Activity Monitor.