Uninstall
MicJot keeps everything in a few known places. Remove as much or as little as you like; nothing is stored anywhere else.
1. Quit and remove the app
- If “Open MicJot at login” is on, turn it off in Settings → General (or run
/Applications/MicJot.app/Contents/MacOS/MicJot --unregister-login-itemin Terminal; only the app itself can remove its login item). - Quit MicJot from its menu-bar icon.
- Drag MicJot from Applications to the Trash.
2. Remove what it created
| Path | What it holds |
|---|---|
~/Library/Application Support/MicJot | Settings, history (the text of your dictations), dictionary, snippets, downloaded speech models, logs and crash reports |
~/Library/Caches/com.micjot.MicJot | The model compiled for the Neural Engine (hundreds of MB); macOS rebuilds it if you reinstall |
~/Library/Preferences/com.micjot.MicJot.plist | Window positions |
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.micjot.MicJot.savedState | Window state |
Move them to the Trash, then run defaults delete com.micjot.MicJot in Terminal so the preferences cache forgets the plist too.
3. API keys
Customer builds store no API key; a QA build keeps the tester's own Anthropic key in secrets.json (removed with the support folder above), and builds before 0.4 kept keys in the Keychain, including cloud-transcription keys: open Keychain Access, search for com.micjot.MicJot, and delete the items named anthropic, openAI and groq that exist. Or in Terminal:
security delete-generic-password -s com.micjot.MicJot -a anthropic
security delete-generic-password -s com.micjot.MicJot -a openAI
security delete-generic-password -s com.micjot.MicJot -a groq
4. Permissions
macOS keeps the grants keyed to the app. Reset them so no stale “MicJot” row remains:
tccutil reset Accessibility com.micjot.MicJot
tccutil reset ListenEvent com.micjot.MicJot # Input Monitoring
tccutil reset Microphone com.micjot.MicJot
Or remove MicJot under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility, Input Monitoring and Microphone with the − button. Empty the Trash to free the space.