Meet the Action Marketplace
Add more useful actions, work across languages, and enjoy a faster, more polished ActionClip.
What's new
- Browse 83 official Marketplace actions across text tools, Markdown, extraction, clipboard tools, developer tools, productivity, and app integrations.
- Preview and convert selected color codes with the new Color Preview action, including HEX, RGB, HSL, and OKLCH.
- Translate to one chosen language or automatically switch between two preferred languages, with a quick Translate Back option.
- Connect Perplexity with your own API key and supported Sonar models.
- Choose currencies more easily in ISO-code order, now including the Guatemalan quetzal (GTQ).
- Connect Fluent, Refine, RewriteBar, Highlight, DEVONthink, UpNote, Tot, Tembo, Scrivener, and Safari Reading List.
27 App Integration actions
- Fluent: Fluent - Smart Panel, Fluent - Translate, Fluent - Magic Refine, Fluent - Fix Grammar, Fluent - Make Concise, Fluent - Summarize, Fluent - Paraphrase Text, Fluent - Explain Like I'm 5, and Fluent - Continue Writing.
- Refine: Refine.
- RewriteBar: RewriteBar.
- Highlight: Highlight.
- DEVONthink: DEVONthink - Clip Plain Note and DEVONthink - Search.
- UpNote: UpNote.
- Tot: Tot - Dot 1, Tot - Dot 2, Tot - Dot 3, Tot - Dot 4, Tot - Dot 5, Tot - Dot 6, and Tot - Dot 7.
- Tembo: Tembo Search.
- Scrivener: Scrivener - New Clipping, Scrivener - Append to Text, and Scrivener - Append to Notes.
- Safari: Safari Reading List.
Improvements
- Widget UI enhancements.
- Small bug fixes.
Sync across Macs, more AI choices, and a more native feel
Keep ActionClip consistent across your Macs, connect more AI services, and work with a smoother, more polished interface.
What's new
- Sync actions, settings, and optional API keys across Macs with the Team plan.
- Connect OpenAI with either a ChatGPT / Codex account or an OpenAI API key.
- Use downloaded Ollama models locally or connect Ollama Cloud as an external AI provider.
- Open selected text directly in Refine's Floating Editor.
- Use ActionClip in English, French, Italian, Japanese, or Russian.
- Convert CSS units including px, pt, and em, with customizable em and PPI values.
- Choose a secondary currency for faster conversions when selected text already uses your primary currency.
- Change icons for built-in and custom actions directly from the Actions page, including uploaded images and HTTPS image links.
Improvements
- Refined the Native Menu theme with macOS system typography, adaptive colors, better contrast, and a clearer result chip.
- Result windows now stay open until you close them and can be moved by dragging the header.
- Made action and group reordering smoother, with faster drop animations and clearer drag feedback.
- Fixed selection and quick-paste support in Calibre's metadata editor.
- Improved AI provider setup, model selection, API-key handling, and Ollama server configuration.
- Standardized buttons, inputs, dropdowns, notes, and click feedback throughout Settings.
- Added automatic update notifications while keeping download and installation choices under your control.
More control and smoother workflows
New widget customization, app integrations, and reliability improvements.
What's new
- Create multiple action groups and reorder them in the widget.
- Reopen ActionClip on selected text with a customizable shortcut.
- Choose action font sizes.
- Pause ActionClip for specific apps or websites.
- Add custom action icons.
- New built-in Sentence case action.
- Added native Apple Calendar and Apple Contacts support.
- Added UpNote support with rich-text note creation and appending.
Improvements
- More reliable text selection in Google Docs, PowerPoint, Apple Notes, Bear, Trello, browsers, and other editors.
- Better clipboard handling to reduce interference with PastePal and other clipboard managers.
- Improved widget placement.
- Refined Native Menu, ActionClip, light, and dark themes.
- Fixed false widget triggers on Finder files, folders, Calendar events, and other non-text elements.
- Fixed widget dropdown alignment, shadows, button contrast, and suggestion-chip appearance.
More actions, more apps, more reliable
New formatting and AI options, broader app support, and a smoother selected-text workflow.
What's new
- Added OpenRouter as an AI provider, with model search.
- Added Underline, Strikethrough, and Clear Formatting actions.
- Added support for Bear and Antinote.
- Improved text selection in Google Docs, PowerPoint, and other editors.
- Made live currency conversion rates more reliable.
- Fixed quick copy and paste sometimes using older clipboard content.
- Improved widget layout so suggestions no longer hide regular actions.
- Added a startup message confirming that ActionClip is running.
- Included general reliability, small bug-fixes and interface improvements.
Permission fix
Fixed Automation permission for AppleScript actions.
Fixed
- macOS can now ask for permission when an AppleScript action controls another app, such as Terminal.
First launch version
ActionClip brings a compact selected-text action menu to Mac, with built-in actions, smart suggestions, custom workflows, and user-controlled AI.
Selected-text menu
- ActionClip appears beside selected text across Mac apps.
- Run copy, paste, rewrite, translate, convert, and search actions without switching tools.
- Paste results back into the active app when an action produces output.
Built-in actions
- 32 built-in actions for text cleanup, case changes, translations, currency, units, dates, time, links, notes, and more.
- Character count and word count appear directly in the widget for selected text.
- Multiple paste actions help you run repeated paste workflows faster.
Smart suggestions
- ActionClip detects dates, times, currencies, links, foreign text, and rough replies.
- The most relevant next action is surfaced first.
Custom actions
- Create reusable actions for JavaScript text transformations, AI prompts, terminal commands, Apple Scripts, and link creation.
- Pin, reorder, group, enable, or disable actions to keep the widget focused.
- Choose from the original ActionClip widget themes.
AI action builder
- Tell ActionClip what action you want in simple words.
- Test the generated action before saving it.
- Run saved AI-created actions from the selected-text menu.
AI control and privacy
- Use on-device Apple Intelligence when available.
- Use external AI API keys only for actions you configure and allow.
- No account is required for local actions.