Glossary
Clacky glossary
The words you’ll meet in Clacky and on this site, each in a line or two, with a link to where it lives.
- Access token (Mastodon)
- A key made on your Mastodon server (Preferences → Development) that lets Clacky post for you. Mastodon →
- AI visibility
- The Dashboard view that shows AI answer engines and crawlers reading your pages: visits, providers, reasons and errors. AI crawler analytics (AI visibility) →
- App password (Bluesky)
- A separate password made in Bluesky for one app, which you can delete any time. Clacky asks for one instead of your main password. Bluesky →
- Auto edit
- Studio’s first pass on a recording: cuts the quiet, zooms on bursts of clicks, speeds up the waiting. Labelled Beta. Auto edit →
- Blip
- Your own little character in Clacky. It levels up as you make things and sits by the notch. It stays on your Mac unless you turn on Friends. Your Blip →
- Boop
- Clacky’s mascot, a happy button. Ask Boop (⌘K) answers how-to questions with steps and pictures. Ask Boop →
- Bot token (Telegram)
- The key @BotFather gives you for a new Telegram bot. Clacky posts as that bot to your channel. Telegram →
- Clackyland
- A cozy harbour town inside Clacky with your Blip, cookies, a levels map, friends and games. Clackyland →
- Click ripple
- A ring drawn under the pointer on every click, so viewers of a recording or screen share see where you clicked. Click Ripples →
- Click sound family
- A group of click sounds with one feel. Clacky has 37 click sounds in 8 families: Arena, Desk, Studio, Toybox, Tingle, Fidget, Analog and Spooky. All sounds →
- Coming soon (Calendar)
- A platform shown dimmed in the Calendar while it waits for the platform’s approval or a developer app. It turns on by itself once ready. Calendar platforms →
- Dashboard
- Analytics, revenue, a newsletter and the social calendar for your own websites, inside Clacky. Dashboard →
- Demo Mode
- Clacky’s own controls are left out of your recordings; Demo Mode puts the ones you pick back in. Clacky stays out of the video →
- Double opt-in
- A newsletter signup that is only confirmed after the person clicks a link in an email. Clacky’s newsletter form uses it. Newsletter →
- Drag loop
- A sound that plays while you drag: Pencil, Zipper or Soft hum. Sounds →
- Filler words
- Um, uh, hmm and phrases like “you know”. Studio finds them in the transcript and removes the ones you pick. Remove filler words from video →
- Input Monitoring
- The macOS permission an app needs to hear mouse and key presses. Clacky uses it to play sounds; it never records, stores, logs or sends which keys you type. Permissions, explained →
- llms.txt
- A plain-text file at a site’s root that tells AI tools what the site is and where its main pages are. Clacky’s AI visibility shows it next to robots.txt and sitemap.xml. AI crawler analytics (AI visibility) →
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- A standard way for AI apps to use tools. Clacky’s MCP server lets Claude, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex use a few local Clacky tools you allow. Connect AI tools →
- Modes
- One click switches a set of tools on together: Record, Present, Code, Focus, Call, Quiet or your own. Modes →
- Moments
- Extra sounds for a double-click and a long press. Sounds →
- MRR
- Monthly recurring revenue: what your subscriptions bring in each month. The Dashboard reads it from Polar or Stripe. Revenue dashboard for Polar and Stripe →
- My Kit
- Clacky’s home of everyday tools as cards: add from Explore, drag to reorder, drag out to remove. My Kit →
- Notch (and the drawn notch)
- Clacky shows status and controls around the MacBook notch, and draws one on screens without it. It stays out of recordings unless you want it in. Notch →
- Places
- The five parts of the Clacky window: My Kit, Studio, Sounds, Clackyland and the Dashboard, picked with the pill switcher. A–Z →
- Post tags (UTM)
- Short tags the Calendar adds to links to your own sites in scheduled posts, so Analytics can tell which post sent a visitor or a sale. Calendar platforms →
- Safe zones
- Marks in Studio’s tall formats that show where TikTok, Reels or Shorts put their buttons, so nothing important hides under them. 9:16, 4:5, 16:9 and 1:1 →
- Scroll tick
- A soft sound for each notch of the scroll wheel. Clacky has 8 scroll styles. Scroll wheel sound on Mac →
- Secure Input
- The macOS mode password fields use. Clacky’s keyboard sounds stay quiet there. Keyboard Sounds →
- Studio
- The place for the screen recorder, the video editor and the screenshot studio. Studio →
- Webhook (Discord)
- A link made in a Discord channel’s settings that lets an app post to that channel. Discord →
- X handoff
- Without your own X API keys, a due X post waits for you in Clacky with Copy and Open X, so you post it yourself. X →
Questions
- What are the places in Clacky?
- My Kit, Studio, Sounds, Clackyland and the Dashboard. A pill switcher at the top of the Clacky window moves between them.
- What is Boop?
- Boop is Clacky’s mascot, a happy button caught mid-press. Ask Boop (⌘K) answers how-to questions inside the app.
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