# Mac

> Italic for Mac puts each new Clip on your clipboard, can paste it where you're typing, and lets you approve tasks from the menu bar.

Italic for Mac is the web app in a Mac window, with a menu bar icon. Say
something into your Sudo or iPhone, and seconds later it's on your Mac's
clipboard, ready to paste. It needs macOS 14 or later.

## Download and install [#download-and-install]

<Steps>
  <Step title="Download">
    In the web app, choose your name at the bottom of the sidebar, then
    **Downloads**, then **Download** beside Italic for Mac. In a Mac browser,
    the sidebar's Italic for Mac card has the same download.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Install">
    Open the disk image and open Italic. It offers to move itself to your
    Applications folder.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Sign in">
    In the welcome guide, choose **Continue in Browser** (or **Sign In with
    Browser** in the menu bar). Your browser opens Italic's sign-in page;
    nothing you type there passes through the app. When you're done, the
    guide goes on by itself.
  </Step>
</Steps>

The welcome guide then sets up copying, notifications, opening at login and
auto paste.

Italic for Mac's own settings are at the end of **Personalization**: choose
**Settings…** in the menu bar. They're in the sections **Clips on this Mac**,
**This Mac** and **Updates**. **Show the Welcome Guide** is under **This
Mac**. Banners for new Clips and Memos and for workflow drafts are on
**Notifications**, above your **Daily recap**.

## Updates [#updates]

Italic for Mac updates itself. A new version installs the next time Italic
quits, and it opens still signed in. Under **Updates**, you can turn off
**Install updates automatically** or choose **Check for Updates…**.

## New Clips on your clipboard [#new-clips-on-your-clipboard]

With **Copy new Clips automatically** on, each new Clip from any of your
devices goes on your clipboard as it syncs, and the menu lists it at the top.

<Screenshot narrow src="/images/mac/panel" width={520} height={1037} alt="The Italic menu in the Mac menu bar, with Auto-copy on: a draft waiting for approval, the Copy new Clips automatically and Paste automatically switches, and the newest Clips and Memos." caption="The Italic menu. Click a recording to copy it." />

- Only fresh Clips are copied: recorded in the last 15 minutes by default,
  or choose **5 minutes** or **Hour** under **Clips on this Mac**. Older ones,
  such as a Clip your phone synced late, are listed but not copied.
- A Clip that arrives while your Mac is locked is copied when you unlock it,
  if it's still fresh.
- Memos are listed but never copied. Click any recording in the menu to copy
  it, or right-click it to open it in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grok or
  Cursor.

### Paste where you're typing [#paste-where-youre-typing]

Turn on **Paste automatically** and a new Clip is also pasted into the text
field you're in. macOS asks you to allow Italic under Accessibility first;
Italic walks you through it. It never pastes into a password field or into
Italic itself.

## Banners [#banners]

Italic posts a banner for each new Clip or Memo, such as "New clip from
your Sudo", with what you said. It also says whether the Clip was copied
or pasted. Click it to open the recording. To turn these off, turn off **New
Clips and Memos** under **Notifications**. **Workflow drafts waiting for you**,
beside it, does the same for a draft's banner; the draft stays in the menu.

## Approve from the menu bar [#approve-from-the-menu-bar]

When a [workflow](/workflows) drafts something, it waits for you under
**Waiting for you** in the menu, with **Approve**, **Discard** and
**Review**. Review opens it in the window. Each new draft also posts a
banner with Approve and Discard.

- An email with no recipient yet opens for review instead, so you can add
  one. Its banner offers only Discard.
- A reminder you approve is added by your iPhone.
- A decision on your Mac is the same decision on every device. See
  [Tasks](/tasks).

## The window [#the-window]

**Open Italic** in the menu opens the window: Home, Search, Chat, Tasks,
Connectors, Workflows, Dictation and Devices, as in the [web app](/apps/web).
While Italic can't be reached, the window shows the recordings saved on your
Mac, and you can search them.

<Screenshot src="/images/mac/window" width={1600} height={1085} alt="The Italic for Mac window showing Home, with its sidebar and recordings grouped by day." caption="The Italic window on a Mac." />

## More shortcuts [#more-shortcuts]

- **Copy Latest Clip** is in Shortcuts and Spotlight on your Mac too.
- **Open Italic at login** and **Show Italic in the Dock** are under **This Mac**
  in Personalization.
- Signing out in the Italic window signs Italic for Mac out. Signing out in
  your browser doesn't.