Your clipboard,
always within reach.

A lightweight, native macOS clipboard manager. One hotkey, instant popup, never lose what you copied.

Download for Mac Star on GitHub

macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Free & open source

Features

Everything you need, nothing you don't.

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Instant hotkey popup

Press your hotkey from any app — the popup appears right at your cursor. Fully customisable shortcut.

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Fuzzy search

Start typing to filter your history instantly. Searches both content and the source app name.

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Text & images

Captures screenshots, images copied from browsers or Finder, alongside plain and rich text.

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Pin favourites

Pin items you reach for constantly. They float to the top and are never pushed out by new copies.

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Private by design

Clipboard data from password managers (1Password, Keychain) is automatically skipped. History is stored encrypted on disk with AES-256-GCM; the key lives in your Keychain, never on disk.

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Per-app exclusions

Block any app from being recorded. Changes from excluded apps are silently ignored — no manual clearing needed.

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Truly lightweight

~1 MB binary. Pure Swift + SwiftUI, no Electron, no background web process, no subscription, no telemetry.

Get started in seconds.

Download, drag to Applications, done.

Download ClipHistory.dmg Click the button below to grab the latest release from GitHub.

Drag to Applications Open the DMG and drag ClipHistory into your Applications folder.

Unlock the app (one-time) macOS blocks unsigned apps by default. Open Terminal and run:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/ClipHistory.app

Then double-click ClipHistory to open it normally.

Grant Accessibility permission The onboarding screen walks you through enabling it in System Settings — required for the global hotkey.

Download for Mac — Free

macOS 14 Sonoma or later

Your clipboard,always within reach.