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Get Echo for your Mac.
One small app in your menu bar. Every prompt, one shortcut away — in every app you already use.
macOS 13 or later · Free 7-day trial
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Open Echo
Echo lives in your menu bar — no Dock clutter, no window to babysit.
Allow Accessibility
macOS asks once. It is how Echo reads your selection and writes the result back — that is all it is used for.
Select text, press ⌘1
Anywhere you can select text, Echo works. That is the whole workflow.
How to install Echo on your Mac
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Download the disk image
The button above gives you Echo.dmg. Safari drops it in your Downloads folder; double-click it and a window opens with the Echo icon and a shortcut to your Applications folder.
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Drag Echo into Applications
Drag the Echo icon onto the Applications folder in that same window. That is the install — there is no installer to click through. You can then eject the disk image and delete the .dmg.
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Open Echo from Applications
Double-click Echo. It is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. Echo has no main window: it lives in the menu bar at the top of your screen, and it is running as soon as that icon appears.
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Allow Accessibility, once
macOS asks for Accessibility permission the first time you use the shortcut, and opens System Settings › Privacy & Security › Accessibility for you. Switch Echo on. This is what lets Echo read the text you have selected and write the result back — it is the only permission Echo asks for, and the app does nothing without it.
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Select text anywhere and press ⌘1
Highlight a sentence in Mail, Safari, Slack, Notes, a PDF — anything — and press ⌘1. The popup opens over the app you are already in. Pick a tool, and the result replaces your selection or gets copied, your choice. You can change the shortcut in Echo’s settings.
What you need
macOS 13 or later
Ventura and everything after it. Echo is a native Swift app, not a browser in a wrapper.
Apple Silicon or Intel
One universal download runs natively on both — M-series and older Intel Macs alike.
An internet connection
The AI runs in the cloud, so Echo needs to be online to answer. Requests go over HTTPS to Echo’s own backend.
Accessibility permission
Granted once, in System Settings. It is how Echo reads your selection and writes the result back — and it is the only permission Echo asks for.
Signed and notarized
Signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens it without a fight.
Updates itself
Echo checks for new versions and installs them on its own. No reinstalling, and the app tells you what changed.
Questions
Yes. The download is free and the trial runs for 7 days with no card required. After that, Echo Pro gives you full access — $9.99 a month or $79 a year.
macOS 13 (Ventura) and later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. The download is a universal build, so the same file runs natively on either.
Echo is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, which means Apple has scanned the exact build you are downloading and macOS can verify it came from us and has not been tampered with. That is the same check the system runs on any app it lets you open.
It is the macOS interface for reading the text you have selected in another app and writing a result back over it — the whole product. Echo asks for nothing else: no screen recording, no full disk access, no contacts. macOS shows you the permission and you can revoke it at any time in System Settings.
Nothing is kept on our side. Your selection travels over HTTPS to Echo’s own backend, which produces the result and then stores neither the text nor a log of it. On your Mac, Echo keeps a local history so you can look back at what you did — it is never synced or uploaded, you can delete any entry, and you can have it drop the text automatically after a while. Your statistics stay on your Mac too, and uninstalling deletes all of it.
Open Echo’s settings and choose Uninstall Echo. It deletes the local history and statistics, signs you out, removes its preferences and moves the app to the Trash in one step. Dragging Echo from Applications to the Trash works too, and you can switch its Accessibility toggle off in System Settings.
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