Ditto keeps the text you paste all the time (hashtags, links, bios, email replies, templates) in one place on your Mac and iPhone. Sort snippets into color-coded categories, click one to copy it, and search from the menu bar.
- Click to copy: snippets are cards; click one and it's on your clipboard.
- Categories: give each category its own color and icon. Group the grid by category or date added, and collapse sections you don't need.
- Menu bar search (Mac): click the Ditto icon for instant search-and-copy from anywhere. Copy text elsewhere and paste it into Ditto to start a new snippet.
- Frequent and pinned: the snippets you copy most rise to the top, and you can pin the ones you always want close.
- Share links: copy a
ditto://link for a snippet or a whole category. Anyone who opens it adds those snippets to their library. Re-opening a link is safe: Ditto merges by name and skips duplicates. - Import and export: back up or move your whole library as a JSON file.
- Shortcuts and Spotlight: copy and create snippets with App Intents, and find snippets from Spotlight.
- Native on both platforms: SwiftUI and SwiftData, with zoomable cards on Mac and a category rail on iPhone.
- macOS 26 or later
- iOS 26 or later
- Xcode 26 to build
Ditto currently ships as source.
The easiest route on a Mac is to double-click Build Ditto.command in Finder. It builds an ad-hoc signed Release build (no Apple account needed), installs it to /Applications, and launches it.
To build in Xcode instead:
open Ditto.xcodeprojPick the Ditto scheme for the Mac app or the iOS scheme for iPhone, then choose your own team under Signing & Capabilities. The iOS simulator works without a team. To run on a real iPhone, also change the bundle ID (com.danielmccullum.ditto.ios) to one of your own.
Ditto registers a ditto:// URL scheme:
ditto://add?content=…&title=…&category=…adds a single snippet.ditto://import?data=…adds a bundle of snippets and/or whole categories.
See docs/ditto-link-prompt.md for a prompt that makes any LLM generate these links, and .claude/skills/ditto-import-spec for the full format.
Copyright (c) 2026 Daniel McCullum.
Ditto is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; see the license for details.