What’s new in Clacky

Record your screen with every click in it, nine new sounds (four for Halloween), a free trial and a new look.

• New

  Built-in screen recorder. Menu → Record Screen… records the whole screen or an area with Clacky’s clicks and ripples in the video, on macOS 15 or later.

• New

  Make a clip. After a recording, Make a Clip saves a vertical 9:16 video for TikTok, Reels and Shorts that follows your clicks, and copies a caption.

• New

  Zoom. The recording preview can zoom your video in on each click or follow the cursor, shows it live, and saves it at full size with the sound untouched.

• New

  Recordings window. Recordings open in a preview that plays right away, with rename, share, Post to X and Save As MOV, MP4 or GIF, and menu → Recordings… lists them all.

• New

  Click shortcuts. Bind a mouse-button rhythm, like three quick right-clicks, to start or stop recording, switch Clacky on or off, or pick the next sound, never using the keyboard.

• New

  Five new sounds. Boop, Thock, Kalimba, Typebar and Pixel join the library.

• New

  Halloween. A new Spooky family (Pumpkin, Cauldron, Bones and Ghost) takes the library to 37 sounds in 8 families, and all October Boop wears a jack-o’-lantern icon (Settings → Seasonal looks).

• New

  Free 24-hour trial. Try every sound and ripple in every app for a day before you buy, once per Mac.

• New

  What’s New. After an update, Clacky shows what changed once, and the menu’s What’s New… shows it again.

• New

  Boop on your desktop. Turn on Settings → Boop for a little Boop on your desktop that bounces with your clicks, dozes off when you take a break and wears a REC hat while Clacky records.

• New

  Share your stats. Settings → Stats → Share… makes a card of your week or all time, portrait or landscape, to copy, save or share.

• New

  Recording stats. A Recording tab shows time recorded, clicks on camera and which apps you recorded, by name only.

• Improved

  Deeper click stats. Stats now show when you click, your top apps, records, your year so far and a streak of days with 50 or more clicks.

• Improved

  Ripples on dark screens. Each ripple now has a light rim around its dark edge, so it shows on dark apps and in screen recordings.

• Improved

  Bolder Recording preset. The Recording preset now draws a bold line, so clicks stand out in videos.

• Improved

  Meet Boop. A new app icon and a matching menu-bar icon: Boop, a happy button mid-click.

A smoother first setup.

• Improved

  Clearer permission hint. The little panel beside System Settings now says to click Quit & Reopen if macOS offers it.

• Fixed

  Tour picks up where you left off. If macOS quits Clacky while you turn on Input Monitoring, the welcome tour now carries on when Clacky reopens.

The first release of Clacky.

• New

  Click sounds. A press and release sound for every mouse and trackpad click in every app, from 28 sounds in 7 families.

• New

  Scroll ticks. A soft tick for every notch of the scroll wheel, in 8 styles.

• New

  Click ripple. A ring, double ring, glow or dot under the cursor on every click, in any size and colour, that shows up in screen recordings.

• New

  Presets. Default, Recording, Quiet, Playful and Subtle set the sound and the ripple in one tap.

• New

  Extra moments. Optional sounds for double-clicks, long presses and drags, and stereo that follows the pointer.

• New

  Your own sounds. Drop in your own press, release and scroll recordings.

• New

  Quiet when it matters. Keep quiet in the apps you pick and while any app uses the microphone.

• New

  Click stats. Your clicks per day, counted on your Mac only.