Vibalos polishes your prompts, searches your clipboard, and OCRs your screenshots — so you stay focused on the actual code. Local AI, no cloud, no subscription. Three hotkeys today. More coming.
12-month dogfood receipts: 1.235.713 words · 115 wpm · 49d streak how I work →He's still learning.
Select text in Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT — hit a hotkey, the polished version replaces your selection. Local AI via Ollama or Apple Foundation. Your prompt never leaves your Mac.
⌥⌘V opens your pasteboard history. Find the snippet you copied two hours ago. Apply polish presets directly from any row. Password-manager items are skipped automatically.
⌥⌘5 for a region screenshot with built-in text recognition. Image + text land on your clipboard — stack traces, error dialogs, UI mockups straight into your next prompt.
Vibalos knows your active Claude Code session and injects project context via {{cc_*}} tokens. Park / resume action for interrupted sessions.
One hotkey, one micro-task, back to coding.
Select text in any app, hit ⌥1 to ⌥0, the polished version replaces your selection. Local AI via Ollama (M-series Mac, M3 Pro recommended) or Apple Foundation Models. Each hotkey is its own preset — tone, writing style, language, tags configurable per slot. Your prompt never touches the cloud.
Selected: "build me a stripe webhook route" → Vibalos: "Please build a FastAPI endpoint for Stripe webhooks. Verify the signature via STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET. Log the event type. Return 200 for unknown types."
Vibalos writes every copy operation to a local SwiftData DB. ⌥⌘V opens the history with full-text search. Each row is clickable to re-copy — and you can apply a polish preset directly from any line. Password managers (1Password, Bitwarden) are detected and skipped automatically.
⌥⌘V → type "stripe key" → stk_test_51N… · copied 2h ago · last used in Cursor → stk_live_aB… · copied 5d ago Click → copied. ⌥+click → polish + copied.
⌥⌘5 for a region screenshot with built-in Apple Vision OCR. Image and recognized text land on the clipboard simultaneously and appear instantly in your pasteboard history. No screen-recording permission required. Optional annotation editor for arrows, highlights, and text overlays.
⌥⌘5 → drag region around Cursor error → PNG on clipboard → Recognized text: "TypeError: Cannot read property 'x' of undefined" → paste straight into your next Claude Code prompt
Vibalos watches ~/.claude/projects/ and tracks your active Claude Code session in real time. Use {{cc_*}} tokens inside polish presets — e.g. {{cc_recent_replies_3}} to inject the last 3 assistant replies as context. Park / resume captures session state across breaks.
Preset: "Bug-fix prompt"
Template: "Bug: {{selection}}\nContext: {{cc_recent_replies_3}}"
→ Select "crash on large files", ⌥1
→ Polished version with last 3 Claude replies as context Three decisions we won't roll back.
Vibalos runs entirely on your Mac. Polish via Ollama or Apple Foundation Models, OCR via Apple Vision, all on-device. No cloud, no telemetry, no accounts — not even "anonymous stats". Outbound traffic happens twice: once at purchase (Lemonsqueezy as Merchant of Record) and once per day for the update check.
Full data-flow diagram →Vibalos sits deep in macOS: Accessibility for global hotkeys, Apple Vision for OCR, Sparkle with EdDSA-signed updates. Cross-platform would lose this depth — and with it the entire advantage. Mac-only isn't a limitation, it's the precondition for how close Vibalos sits to your tooling.
Why mac-only forever →Your license is verified offline — it works even if our servers shut down. You get a lifetime offline-use guarantee for whatever version you installed. For teams: source-escrow at a German notary as a safety backstop.
What if I go away? →Grab the DMG, drag the app to Applications, grant accessibility permission once. Vibalos now lives in your menu bar.
⌥1–⌥0 for polish presets, ⌥⌘V for pasteboard, ⌥⌘5 for snap. All hotkeys fully reconfigurable — Vibalos doesn't make rules.
50 free polishes to try. If Vibalos earns his keep, pay €9.99 once — lifetime, one Mac, no accounts, no subscriptions.
You're buying the trajectory.
Vibalos is one of my daily-driver tools. I use it every day while coding with Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT. Every friction that annoys me, I fix. Every workflow gap, I close. You pay once — and benefit from me eating my own dog food.
Feature request? Bug? Question?
Open it on GitHubVibalos isn't currently open source — the source repo stays private for now. The reasoning is in the GitHub README. Issues and feature requests there are the direct line to the roadmap.
Vibalos is finishing pre-launch. Star the repo to be notified at launch — €9.99 one-time, one Mac, lifetime.
Pre-launch · Version 1.0 — macOS 26+
Lifetime license · No subscription · No telemetry · Coming soon