Questions, answered.

Koru is a menu-bar app for macOS that acts as a writing memory. You save text you want to reuse — replies, snippets, prompts, commands, templates — and recall it from any fragment you remember, right where you are typing. It is free to download and use.

Yes. Koru is free to download and use. There is no account, subscription, or trial timer for the core app.

Only what you explicitly save. Clipboard history is a separate, opt-in layer with bounded retention. Koru never persists raw keystrokes, and typed matching keeps only the short current fragment in memory while you type.

No. Saved items and clipboard history stay on your Mac, encrypted at rest. Koru requires no account and makes no background network requests — no analytics, no cloud sync, no remote processing.

Text expanders need you to remember an exact trigger; clipboard managers only keep what you copied recently. Koru is one recall surface for both: permanent saved writing and temporary clipboard history, found from any fragment you remember.

Koru works where you write — native apps, browsers, editors, and more. Where an app limits caret placement or direct insertion, Koru falls back safely to the global hotkey, a stable panel position, or copy-to-clipboard.

Accessibility lets Koru position its panel at your caret, capture selections you save, and insert text where you are writing. Input Monitoring is needed only if you enable typed matching. You can run Koru in hotkey-only mode without it.

Yes. Secure password fields are always ignored, and you can add any app to visible exclusion lists so Koru never observes it or saves clipboard content from it.

Yes. Saved items support explicit export, and the app includes clear-history, delete-all-data, and full reset controls. Your data is yours, on your disk.