Frisket 4.0.0
The first public build under the Frisket name. A frisket is the printer's mask: ink lands only where it is meant to. That is the whole idea — a keyboard layer that appears exactly where you asked for it and nowhere else.
The keyboard bench
- Command palette. One fuzzy search field for every Frisket command and for your installed apps, ranked by what you actually use. It also answers arithmetic, percentages, unit conversions, and color codes inline.
- Clipboard history. Searchable history of text, links, code, images, and colors, with type filters, pinning, retention limits, and a preview pane. Paste an older clip with Return, or have it typed into fields that block pasting. Optional sync between your own Macs through your own iCloud.
- Smart clips. Recognizers that understand what you copied: a color code gets a live swatch with hex, rgb() and hsl() conversions; Base64 decodes on demand. Recognition runs locally and each recognizer has its own switch.
- Human-like typing. Types your clipboard into the focused field with realistic cadence, for remote desktops, VMs, and consoles where paste fails. Any real keypress, click, or modifier stops it instantly.
- Cheat-sheet overlay and overlay packages. A translucent, per-app keyboard reference summoned by hotkey, plus timed reference overlays you build yourself or install pre-packaged.
- Snippets, transforms, symbols. Trigger-and-expand text snippets anywhere; case, JSON, Base64, sort and strip-formatting transforms straight from history; a keyboard-driven symbol and emoji picker.
- Window tiling and system toggles. Snap the front window to halves, quarters, or thirds from the keyboard; keep the Mac awake, flip dark mode, or switch audio output from the palette.
- Timers, Pomodoro, and breaks. Countdown timers, focus cycles, and guided breaks, started from the palette and visible in the menu bar — with a Focus mode that keeps Frisket itself quiet during meetings and screen shares.
- Contextual app actions. Copy the front browser tab's URL or a ready-made Markdown link, or the Finder selection's path.
Native settings, rebuilt
Settings are now native AppKit panes — nineteen of them — with plain-language explanations, light and dark themes at two densities, per-panel transparency, and a screen-privacy option that hides Frisket's panels from screen sharing and recordings. Three app icon variants ship in the build and can be switched from About.
Permissions you can see
The Permissions pane shows a live pill for every macOS permission Frisket can use, what it is for, and whether it has been granted. Nothing is requested until you first use the feature that needs it, and every feature degrades gracefully without it. If the app is running from a translocated copy, it says so and tells you how to fix it.
Licensing and trial
A full-featured 14-day trial with no account and no card. Licenses are verified against a signed token held in your Mac's Keychain, work offline for a 30-day grace window, and activate on up to three of your Macs with one-click deactivation to move between them. A license check sends only your license key, a hashed machine identifier, and the app version — never your content, never a raw hardware ID.
Automatic updates, on your say-so
Frisket can now update itself. It asks once whether it may check, and until you answer yes it never contacts the update host. Scheduled checks surface as a quiet line in the menu, never a window that steals your focus; manual checks are always available. Updates are signed twice — notarized by Apple, and separately signed with a key the download host does not hold — and the app never downgrades itself.
Reliability
Crash reports are written to your own disk and never uploaded. The menu-bar agent restarts itself cleanly after an unexpected quit, and settings run in their own process so a settings window can never take the agent down with it.
Also in this build, marked experimental
Scratchpads, button boards, a leader-key layer, key remapping, on-device translation, and on-device AI workflows (Apple Silicon, macOS 26 or later) ship switched off behind the Features pane. They are labeled experimental in the app because they are: usable, but still settling. Everything above is not experimental.