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Bartleby.

“I would prefer not to.”Wall Street, 1853
Plate I / A study in four parts
Steel engraving of a copyist’s desk with stacked letters, a folding screen, and a tall window facing a brick wall.
01—04 / Scroll to examine

A fast, keyboard-first
iMessage inbox for Mac.

01 / The deskToday

A little order.
A little quiet.

Archive, snooze, pin, undo, send later.

Your whole Messages history on first launch. Sync between your Macs.

“I would prefer not to.”Herman Melville, 1853

PLATE I

The copyist’s office

After Herman Melville · Wall Street, 1853
Engraving by [TK]

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Plate I / The copyist’s office

Notes.

Why Bartleby asks for Full Disk Access

Full Disk Access is how macOS lets Bartleby read your Messages history. It reads it on your Mac, read-only, and never writes to it.

Every request Bartleby makes, listed

In the app, Help → What Has Bartleby Sent? lists every request: an update check with its version; a daily usage ping with app version, macOS version and a random ID; bug reports only when you press Send; and link previews for links in your messages.

Keyboard triage, from E to Z

E archives. Z undoes. Archive, snooze, pin and send later all work from the keyboard.