Frog for macOS: toolkit features and guides

Build your own set of tools

Open Features to enable or disable a tool. Enabled tools appear in the sidebar; History, Models, Features, and Settings stay available below them. Newly added optional tools start off. Disabling a feature removes its navigation and commands and stops its owned work while retaining its settings.

Every tool you turn on has its own page with all its settings: Writing, Explain, and Dictation; Windows for snapping and layouts; Window switcher, Clipboard, and System monitor; Stay awake for its session and access. Models brings Local models, Providers, and Installed tools together. Shortcuts groups Application and Other actions, and holds window layouts while Windows is off. Features only turns tools on and off.

• Choose and manage features
• Search with the command bar

Find, write, and organize from the keyboard

Enable Command bar and press Control–Option–Space to search applications, available windows, Spotlight filenames, macOS settings, and enabled Frog tools. It also calculates, converts units, finds a small emoji collection, and runs enabled rules or saved scripts.

Explain answers questions about text you select in another app, in a panel next to it, without replacing the text. Windows snaps windows to screen edges and corners and offers a layout picker. App cleaner moves an app and the files it leaves behind to the Trash after you review them.

Notes provides local Markdown editing and preview, and a note can paste from the command bar with the date, time, and clipboard filled in. The command bar also cleans tracking parameters from a copied URL, encodes or decodes Base64, and generates UUIDs.

Mr. Usage adds a separate menu-bar readout and popup for AI plan limits and token activity. Collection continues while enabled, including with the dashboard closed. Stay awake is an explicitly started, time-limited power session; enabling the feature does not start a session. System monitor shows CPU, GPU, disk, and power readings on its own page and in an optional System view of Frog’s menu-bar popup.

Choose local models or connect a provider

Internal models run inside Frog on Apple silicon after you download their weights. A fully local writing or dictation workflow can then work offline. External providers include local Ollama or LM Studio servers as well as cloud APIs such as OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini.

Models → Installed tools also offers text models through supported Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode CLIs using their existing login. Each rule chooses its own model. A CLI or cloud-backed rule follows that provider’s data policies; an installed tool is not necessarily offline. Frog itself has no required account or telemetry.

What Mac do I need?

Frog supports macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon and Intel Macs. Built-in speech and text inference requires Apple silicon. Intel Macs can use external providers and native toolkit features that do not require local inference.

Most toolkit actions need no model or account. Cloud AI, model downloads, updates, and provider usage requests need a connection; local search and document tools do not need a cloud model.

Keep your setup in readable files

Frog keeps basic settings in ~/.config/frog/config as commented key = value text, with rules, connections, and custom models in config.json beside it. Edit through Settings → Configuration → Open config, then Reload. Sync both files with your dotfiles tools; a complete single-file JSON export is also available. Credentials, model weights, history, local statistics, clipboard entries, toolkit documents, usage records, and device-specific permissions stay separate.

Feature guides