A fast, private, unlimited clipboard manager for macOS. Everything stays on your Mac. Everything is free.
Press ⌘⇧V anywhere: everything you've ever copied, searchable in milliseconds.
Every competitor rations what your own disk already paid for: Raycast caps free history at 3 months, Paste charges $29.99/year, Windows keeps 25 items, Apple's built-in forgets after ~8 hours. Clip keeps everything, forever, locally, and gives away the features others paywall. See RESEARCH.md for the competitive analysis and ROADMAP.md for where it's going.
Capture: every copy (text with formatting, images, files) lands in history automatically. Passwords from password managers are excluded by design. Optional: screenshots you take (⇧⌘4) are captured too, no copying needed.
Find: the ⌘⇧V popup with instant full-history search (SQLite FTS under the hood: milliseconds at any size), plus a real desktop window with sidebar filters. Images are OCR'd on-device, so screenshots are searchable by the text inside them. The "Now:" strip always shows exactly what ⌘V would paste.
Paste: one click pastes into the app you were using. Option-click for plain text. Paste with transforms (UPPERCASE, trim, pretty-print JSON, URL encode…). Queue several items, then paste them one per ⌘V with a floating progress bar. Multi-select and paste joined.
Organize: pin favorites, file clips into color-coded categories, flip a category into "collect mode" to auto-file everything you copy during a research sprint. Quick-edit any text clip before pasting.
Forgive: deletes go to a 30-day Trash with one-click restore. Holding Backspace can't mass-delete. Re-copying trashed content rescues it.
Trust: 100% local. No account, no cloud, no telemetry, no subscription. The only optional network feature (link previews) is off by default and clearly labeled. History is stored owner-only at ~/Library/Application Support/Clip/.
| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌘⇧V | Open the popup (rebindable in Settings) |
| ↑ ↓ then ⏎ | Choose and paste |
| ⌥⏎ | Paste as plain text |
| ⌘1–9 | Paste item 1–9 instantly |
| ⌘P | Pin / unpin |
| ⎋ | Close |
| ⌃⌘V | Paste next queued item |
Requirements: macOS 13 (Ventura) or later, Apple Silicon or Intel.
Until the notarized download ships (v1.0.0), build from source:
- Clone, open
Clip.xcodeprojin Xcode 15+ - Set your development team under Signing & Capabilities (a stable signing identity keeps macOS permissions across rebuilds)
- Run (⌘R), then grant the two permissions Clip asks for, each explained in-app:
- Accessibility: lets Clip press Paste for you (direct paste)
- Screenshots folder: only if you enable screenshot capture
TESTING.md is the full regression checklist run before every release.
MIT © 2026 Raj Parmar