Clicky is a small Mac app that sits next to your cursor and watches what you're doing. You ask it a question out loud and it walks you through whatever's on your screen. Color grading in DaVinci Resolve, a panel in After Effects, a layout in Figma — it sees the same pixels you do and answers in the context of that exact app, not in the abstract.
It has a second mode. Say "clicky agent" and it spins off a background worker to go do something for you. Turn this Figma file into a working webpage. Find a used camera like this one for under $1,000. Summarize this PDF and email it to the team. The agent goes off and does it while you keep working on something else.
It's made by Farza (the founder of buildspace) and runs on Mac for now. Windows is on a waitlist.
Most "AI assistants" are a chat box in a browser tab. You copy something out of the app you're actually working in, paste it into chat, ask the question, copy the answer back. Half the time is spent moving text around.
Clicky skips that whole loop. The assistant is in the app with you. It reads your screen, hears your voice, and answers about the thing you're literally pointing at. For software with a steep learning curve — DaVinci, After Effects, Figma — that changes how you ask for help. You stop pausing to type things into Google, you just say what's confusing you out loud and keep moving.
The agent mode is a different register. It's not "help me here", it's "go do this for me". Useful for the small admin tasks that pile up on the side of creative work — research, formatting, summaries, follow-ups.
If you outsource creative work — video, design, decks — and you're trying to bring more of it in-house with AI, the friction usually isn't the AI itself. It's the gap between the tool you're working in and the assistant you're asking for help. A Mac-native, screen-aware assistant closes that gap better than yet another browser tab.
It's also single-founder software, which is worth knowing. The upside is fast iteration and a clear point of view. The downside is the usual: smaller surface area than a big-team product, Mac-only for the moment, no published pricing yet on the marketing page. Worth trying on a free workflow before betting a process on it.
Screen-aware — software that adjusts based on what's visible on your screen. Different from a chat assistant, which only knows what you typed into it.
Agent — an AI that's allowed to take actions on its own (open files, search the web, send an email) rather than only answering questions.
Mac-native — built specifically for macOS instead of running inside a browser tab. Usually faster, better integrated, and less awkward.
A question worth sitting with: how often in a normal working day do you alt-tab to a chat box to ask something about what you're already doing? If the answer is "more than I'd like", the assistant probably needs to come to the work, not the other way around.