Clacky vs Thock
Thock is a free, native, open-source Mac menu-bar app for keyboard sounds. It has played mouse clicks since version 1.19, does spatial audio, and goes quiet while music plays. Clacky plays your keyboard, mouse, trackpad and scroll wheel too, and adds a ripple on every click, a recorder that keeps the clicks in the video, screenshots and Clackyland.
Clacky is the cozy companion for making things on your Mac. Click, scroll and keyboard sounds with a ripple on every click, a Studio that records your screen, captions and cuts, quick screenshots, and Clackyland, a little harbour town that grows while you work. 3 days free with no card, then $4.99 once.
Try free for 3 daysWhat you get with Clacky
Clicks you can hear and see
37 click sounds with their own press and release, 8 scroll styles, 29 keyboard sounds, plus double-click, long press and drag, and a ripple under the cursor on every click. Keyboard sounds never record which keys are typed.
A recorder that keeps your clicks
Record the whole screen, one window or an area, with your Mac’s sound, your clicks and ripples right in the video. Pause when you need to, stop from the notch. Recordings stay on your Mac.
Captions and quick edits
Captions are made on your Mac, word by word. Split, speed up, trim and crop in the clips lane, then make it 9:16 with the captions out of the way.
Screenshots, done right
A screenshot editor, Scrolling Capture for whole pages, and Grab Text to copy text from anything on your screen.
Clackyland
Using Clacky bakes cookies. Spend them in a little harbour town, unlock achievements, open the daily treat and visit your friends. The fun part, never in your way.
Simple to buy
$4.99 once, with every feature and every update. 3 days free with no card and no account, the app in 14 languages, for 1 Mac, and a real person answers your email.
| Clacky | Thock | |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial on your Mac | Yes3 days, no card, no account | YesThe app is free |
| Price | Yes$4.99 once | YesFree, open source (MIT), installs with Homebrew |
| Runs on | YesMac, 1 Mac per licence | YesMac |
| Keyboard sounds | Yes29 sounds | YesRecorded packs, plus your own |
| Mouse & trackpad click sounds | Yes37 sounds, press and release | YesLeft and right clicks (1.19+) |
| Scroll sounds | Yes8 styles | Not stated |
| Click ripple on screen | Yes | Not stated |
| Built-in screen recorder | YesClicks and ripples in the video | Not stated |
| Screenshot editor | YesPlus Scrolling Capture | Not stated |
| A companion character | Yes | Not stated |
| Sounds only in apps you pick | Yes | Not stated |
| Sounds only in headphones | Yes | Not stated |
| App languages | Yes14 | YesSeveral |
| Every update included | Yes | Not stated |
| Needs | YesmacOS 13+ (recorder 15, screenshots 14) | YesmacOS 13.5+ |
| Refunds | YesBy email, through Polar | Not stated |
Where Thock is better: Thock is free, open source and native, with spatial audio, typing sounds that go quiet while music plays, and Raycast and command-line control.
Sources
Checked on 2026-10-29 from each app’s own website or App Store page. “Not stated” means we couldn’t find it there, not that it’s missing. Apps change: check their page before you buy.
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