Stop swiping windows.
Make jump
to the answers.
An unbelievably quick path from question to answer, right under your cursor
Apple Silicon · macOS 15 Sequoia or later · free and open source
See it work
TODO · demo video
A short screen recording goes here: press the hotkey anywhere, type a question, hit Enter, watch the answer land in the text field.
23 kilograms how many pounds
50.7 pounds.
What Kvick is
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Local
The model runs on your Mac with MLX. No API key, no account, no cloud.
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Open
MIT licensed. Read the code, fork it, build your own.
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Private
What you ask in the app stays in the app. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
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Instant
One hotkey, from any app. The answer lands where your cursor already is.
Things you stop opening a browser tab for.
- Hello in Japanese
- 23 kilograms how many pounds
- Regex for an email address
- Synonym for serene
- Paralel or parallel
- Python list command
- Make this sentence more formal
Three keys and you are done.
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1
⌘⇧Space
Press it in any app. The panel opens at your text cursor. Pick a different shortcut during setup if this one is taken.
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2
Type it, or select first
Selected some text before you hit the hotkey? Kvick works on that selection. Nothing selected? It just answers the question.
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3
Hit ↵
The result is pasted straight back into whatever you were writing. Or copy it with ⌘C and close the panel.
Before you download.
Apple Silicon only
Kvick needs an M-series Mac. Intel Macs are not supported — the inference engine is MLX, which is Apple Silicon only.
macOS 15 Sequoia or later
Nothing older. Kvick lives in the menu bar — no Dock icon and no window while you work. It only appears in the Dock while a setup or model window is open.
The first open needs a right-click
Kvick is not notarized yet, so macOS refuses to open it on the first try. Right-click the app in Applications, choose Open, then Open again. You only do this once.
The first run downloads a model
Kvick fetches the model you pick from Hugging Face on first launch. It is a multi-gigabyte, one-time download — start it on decent Wi-Fi. After that, Kvick works with no network at all.
RAM decides which model, not whether
There is no minimum-RAM gate. The model picker groups models by what your Mac can comfortably hold — roughly 8 GB, 16 GB, and 24 GB or more — and you can switch or delete models any time.
One permission: Accessibility
macOS requires it for the three things Kvick actually does: fire a global hotkey from any app, place the panel at your text cursor, and read your selection so it can paste the result back.
What Kvick sends, and what it keeps
The only network request Kvick makes is downloading the model you chose from Hugging Face. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Kvick keeps your last 100 results — prompt, selection and answer — on your Mac in its own preferences file, and nothing is uploaded. There is no clear-history button yet; until there is, deleting the app removes them.