HeyClicky review: what it does, what it costs, and how it compares
HeyClicky review: what the Mac AI buddy (formerly Clicky) does, what it costs, what its trust page says it keeps, and how it compares with Koi. Oct 2026.
The idea
Your AI app knows nothing about your week
You open Claude or Cursor to get something done, and the first five minutes go on context. Paste the call notes. Paste the to-do list. Explain what you agreed with Sam. Then copy the answer back into wherever it lives.
Koi already has all of that: your pages, your dictations, your recorded calls with their transcripts, your calendar and your expenses. So we let your AI apps ask Koi directly, through MCP, the open standard they use to plug into other tools.
What you can ask
Read it, change it, start it
Once an app is connected, it can do most of what you do in Koi by hand. A few things you can now just type into it:
| You ask your AI app | What Koi does |
|---|---|
| What did Sam say about pricing on Tuesday's call? | Searches your calls, pages and dictations and hands over the parts that match |
| Turn that call into a one-page brief | Makes a new page in Koi with it, in the folder you name |
| Put the dentist on Thursday at 3 | Adds it to Koi's calendar, or your Google or Apple calendar if you say so |
| Add Netflix, $17.99 a month, to my expenses | Puts it in the expense tracker with its next payment |
| Make flashcards from my biology notes | Adds the cards to that page, ready to study |
| Transcribe ~/Downloads/lecture.m4a | Writes it down on your Mac, with timestamps, as a new document |
| Start recording this meeting | Starts a recording, the same as pressing the keys |
It also edits pages, files them into folders, exports them as Markdown or Word, imports PDFs and slides, and keeps Koi's memory, dictation snippets and dictionary up to date. Thirty tools in all.
How to set it up
One click, then restart the app
- Open Koi's Settings, then Connections. Scroll to AI apps.
- Click Connect next to Claude, Cursor or Codex. For Claude Code, click Copy command and paste it in your terminal once.
- Quit and reopen that app, or start a new session. Then ask it something about your week.
Koi writes itself into that app's own MCP settings and leaves everything else in them alone. If Koi isn't running when the app asks, it opens in the background to answer.
Where your data goes
It stays on your Mac until your AI app reads it
The AI app starts Koi on your Mac, and Koi answers it there, over a private line that only Koi's own app can use. Nothing goes through our server. What the app reads, it sends to its own AI under its own terms, so connect only the ones you'd trust with your notes.
- A page it deletes moves to Recently Deleted, where it waits 30 days. Calendar items and expenses it removes are gone, as when you remove them.
- Your Google and Apple calendars only change with Let Koi use my Mac for me on, in Settings.
- An event with guests opens in Koi's calendar for you to check. Nothing emails anyone by itself.
- Koi won't keep a card number, wherever it comes from.
Honest limits
What it doesn't do
- Search matches words, not meaning: ask about "pricing" and a call that only said "cost" may not come up. The AI app usually tries other words.
- It's one Mac at a time. Your AI app on another computer can't reach it.
- It works with apps that run MCP servers on your Mac. Chat in a browser tab can't connect.
- It's Mac only.
Try it
On every plan
AI apps in Koi come with every plan. Pro is $20 a month, or $192 a year, after a 3-day free trial that needs a card. Lifetime is paid once, from $59. The steps are on connect your AI apps, and more on Koi's documents and its calendar.
Keep exploring
The speech models in Koi
Every speech model Koi runs on your Mac: Parakeet v3 built in, plus Whisper, Qwen3-ASR, Cohere Transcribe and Granite free to download. 100 languages, offline.
Five file chores, one Shift key
Koi's Shift wheel: drag any file on your Mac, hold Shift, and have it explained out loud, translated, read aloud, added to expenses or put in your calendar.
Wispr Flow pricing, explained
Wispr Flow pricing, checked October 16, 2026: Free's word limits, Pro at $15 or $12, why Growth shows both $23 and $33, student discounts and 3-year costs.
Support
Frequently asked questions
Claude's Mac app, Cursor, Claude Code and Codex connect from Koi's Settings. Any other app that runs MCP servers on your Mac can start Koi with its --mcp option.
Koi answers the AI app on your Mac and sends nothing to our server. What the app reads goes to its own AI under its own terms.
A page it deletes goes to Recently Deleted, where it waits 30 days. Calendar items and expenses it removes are gone, as when you remove them yourself. It can't empty Recently Deleted or email anyone.