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Everything it does

Forty-one things, one price, nothing here sold separately. Anything marked off stays off until you switch it on.

A note on the AI features. Three groups below need Apple Intelligence. That is Apple's own AI, built into macOS and free. You switch it on in System Settings, it runs on your Mac, and nothing is sent anywhere. It needs an Apple silicon Mac on macOS 26, so if yours has an Intel chip or an older macOS those features will not appear. Everything else works on any Mac running macOS 13 or later.

The five people actually buy it for

If you are deciding in thirty seconds, decide on these. The whole list is below, these five included, and every one of them is in the price.

01

Stay Active

Teams and Slack keep showing you as available while you read something on paper, think, or take a call away from the desk. No jiggler, no service, no account.

⌃⌥G
02

It remembers your workday

Ask on Thursday what Tuesday was. Recaps, standups and timesheets written from what was really on your screen — and the record erases itself.

48 hours,
then gone
03

Drop files on the charm

Zip them, convert pictures, shrink one so it will actually send, or move the lot. New files, beside the originals; what you dropped in is never touched.

5 · 10 · 25
MB
04

It quizzes you on your own notes

Drop a lecture PDF, a slide deck or a photo of a whiteboard. It reads it here and asks you questions, one at a time, answers hidden until you pick.

read on
your Mac
05

Tug someone’s sleeve from another room

Four words, and two Macs hang from the same cord. Pull yours and let go and theirs swings — no notification, no words, and no way to explain yourself.

one wifi,
no further
41 the complete list, one line each Everyday tools, the memory, study, the watchers, live scores, and the charm itself.

Everyday tools 13

All on the day you install it. None of them read your screen or ask a model anything.

Area screenshot⌃⌥S — Drag a box. Saved to a folder and copied to your clipboard at the same time.

Text grab⌃⌥T — Drag a box over anything on screen and the words land on your clipboard. Works on pictures of text.

The shelf — Drop files on the charm and they hang there. Drag the basket to deliver them anywhere.

Zip them⌃⌥Z — Everything on the shelf into one archive, beside the originals.

Convert pictures⌃⌥J — To JPEG, PNG or HEIC. New files, originals untouched.

Shrink for email⌃⌥E — Under 5, 10 or 25 MB so it will actually send.

Move them⌃⌥M — The whole shelf somewhere else in one go.

Focus timer⌃⌥F — Twenty-five minutes, and the cord winds shorter as they go by.

Stay Active⌃⌥G — Keeps you showing as available in Teams and Slack while you read on paper, think, or take a call.

Keep Mac awake⌃⌥K — Holds it open through a long render or install, fireflies drifting round the charm.

Hide the charm⌃⌥H — Out of sight and back again.

Private Mode⌃⌥P — Silences every capture in the app instantly. There is a timed hour-long version too.

Small kindnesses — Copy a long article and it offers to summarise. Copy another language and it offers to translate.

Memory needs Apple Intelligence 11

Two halves that keep different promises. What was on your screen erases after 48 hours. Where you have been lasts as long as you choose, and holds no page text at all. How the memory works →

Day Memoryoff — Your Mac quietly notes what you were working on, so you can ask about it later. Erases itself after 48 hours.

Recap — What your day actually looked like, hour by hour.

Standup — A paste-ready update written from what was really on your screen.

Timesheet — Measured blocks of time with honest totals, aware of your working hours.

The Trail — Where you have been: the app, the window's name, the link, when, and how long. Encrypted, kept as long as you like.

Where was I? — Find a page from months ago by what it was about, not what it was called. Comes back with the link and the date.

Threads — Your day as pieces of work rather than a list of windows. Say “resume 1” and the pages reopen.

Déjà vu — Land somewhere you spent real time before and a bead hangs on the cord until you look at it.

Open loops — Things you said you would do, picked up from your work. Never from Mail or Messages.

The Diaryoff — One line a day for 7 or 30 days: times, apps, window titles, one sentence. Never any screen text.

Forgetting — The last hour, everything from one app, or the lot. One click each.

Study needs Apple Intelligence 4

Quiz Me on files — Drop notes, slides, a PDF or a photo of a page on the charm and it tests you on them.

Quiz Me on today — Four questions on what you actually read today, only when there is enough of it to be fair.

Sprint Quizoff — Finish a focus session and it checks what you just studied.

Study Log — An hour-by-hour record of what you covered, with totals that do not count your scrolling.

Watchers needs Apple Intelligence 2

Meeting Radaroff — The charm jingles about five minutes before a calendar event with a prep note and the join link.

Focus Guardianoff — During a focus session it notices you drifting and says so, once.

Live Scores 3

It reads somebody else's public scoreboard, which makes it the one part of Charmling that can stop working without me touching it. That is why it is beta, why it is off until you switch it on, and why nothing else depends on it.

The belloff — The charm rings the moment something happens in a match you follow: a wicket, a touchdown, a goal, a lead change.

The boardoff — A split-flap scoreboard, on your charm or hanging on its own cord.

Which sports — Cricket, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college football and basketball, Premier League, Champions League, LaLiga, MLS, Formula 1.

The charm 8

Last, because it is the part you have already seen. It is also the part that never asks you for anything.

Ninety-nine charms — Each one a real object somebody somewhere hangs for luck, with its origin written into the app.

Real cord physics — Grab it, pull, let go. The cord stretches, goes taut and snaps back. Fling it and it throws.

Rituals — Every charm has one. Right-click and the Daruma takes an eye, the bells ring, the shells cast.

The Garden — A dragon that hatches through five stages and a bonsai that flowers, both only if you keep at it.

Make your own — Any emoji, or drop in a photo and it is cut out and set in a gold locket on the same cord.

Wander Mode⌃⌥Woff — The charm wanders off around your screen and finds its way back.

Day Shapeoff — A booked-up calendar makes the charm hang low and sway short. It reads when things are, never what they are.

Shared Cordoff — Two Macs on one network share a string. Tug yours and theirs swings in the next room. No words can travel down it.

What it never does

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