The fast, native clipboard history and manager for Mac power users. Sub-millisecond SQLite search, screen OCR, and 100% on-device privacy — with no recurring subscriptions.
macOS 13.0 Ventura or later·Apple Silicon & Intel·7-day free trial
📋Automatic History
Silently saves everything you copy: text, links, code, images, and files.
⌘One-Key Access⌥⌘V
Summons your clipboard history anywhere on Mac in <1ms right at your cursor.
⚡️Smart Auto-Paste
Click any clip to paste directly into your active window without switching apps.
🔍Screen OCR⌥⌘C
Capture any screen area to instantly extract text and copy it automatically.
One clipboard. Every format.
Built for everything you actually copy.
Text
Images
Files & Folders
Links
Screenshots
Screen OCR
One tool. Every clip.
From simple text to text extracted from images, everything you copy goes into a lightning-fast, secure vault.
VS Code · app.tsx
const config = {
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};
Smart Auto-Paste
Select a clip and it automatically pastes itself into your active window. No context switching needed.
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⚡️
stripe.customers.create(...)Xcode · 2m ago
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dashboard.stripe.com/keysSafari · 14m ago
Unlimited History
Search ten thousand clips in under a second. Full-text SQLite FTS5 search across your entire history.
Zero-config deploy
Extracted from image
Vision OCR · 99.8% Match
Screen OCR
Capture any part of your screen and instantly extract the text using Apple Vision on-device OCR.
Shielded Secret
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Touch ID to Reveal
Privacy Shield
API keys and passwords are automatically detected, shielded, and hidden from plain view.
Everything else, included.
No feature-gated tiers. No missing basics.
Pinned Favorites
Star any clip to pin it to the top — snippets, canned responses, boilerplate.
Menu Bar Access
Runs quietly in the background as a lightweight accessory app. Toggle the window or pause capture from your menu bar.
Delete & Clear All
Total control over your data. Delete individual clips instantly, or wipe your entire history at once.
App Source Tracking
Every clip shows which app it came from — filter by Xcode, Slack, browser, and more.
SHA-256 Deduplication
Identical copies are hashed and bubbled straight to the top with refreshed timestamps, keeping history clean.
Kaomoji, Emoji & Symbols
Dedicated tabs for Japanese emoticons (¯\_(ツ)_/¯), searchable emojis, and typography symbols built right in.
Customizable Hotkeys
Defaults to ⌥⌘V for clipboard and ⌥⌘C for instant Screen OCR text extraction, remappable to any shortcut.
Tall & Broad Layouts
Switch between vertical list or widescreen card layouts, with custom UI scaling from 80% to 135%.
Rich Quick Preview
Full-size preview of images, animated GIFs, syntax-highlighted code, and rendered Markdown before you paste.
Auto-Launch & Retention
Starts quietly at login. Configure automatic history purge rules: 1 hour, 1 day, 7 days, 30 days, or never.
Password Manager Shield
Automatically detects and conceals copies from 1Password, Bitwarden, Apple Passwords & Keychain, and KeePassXC.
Smart Filters
Narrow results by type, source app, date range, or character count — instantly narrowed down.
Technical Architecture
How Clipmory works under the hood.
The App Lifecycle
Initialization: Starts up and initializes the local SQLite database & clipboard monitor.
Monitoring: Continuously watches clipboard changes. Each copy triggers capture.
Storage: Stores item in database along with text, image path, timestamp, and source app.
Display: Shows in floating window sorted by PINNED / RECENT when hotkey is pressed.
Interaction: User copies, pins, favorites, pastes, deletes, or searches clips.
Workflow Example
01You copy text from Safari
02Take a screenshot & extract text with ⌥⌘C
03Copy code from Xcode
04Press hotkey (⌥⌘V / Option+Command+V)
05Clipmory window opens near cursor
06You see all 3 items sorted by recency
07Click the code snippet → pastes into your current app
08Cmd+V triggers the paste automatically
Your Mac
All data stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Clipmory
No Cloud Upload
No Analytics
Protected by Touch ID
Sensitive items require authentication to reveal
Security & Privacy
Your data never leaves your Mac.
🔒 100% on-device storage
Clipboard data is stored in your local App Support directory. Nothing is transmitted anywhere. No account required, no phone home.
🚫 Zero telemetry
No analytics, no crash reporting to third parties, no usage data collection of any kind. The app operates entirely offline.
🛡️ Native App Sandboxing
Protected by macOS app sandboxing and hardened runtime. Your sensitive data stays isolated, encrypted locally, and completely secure.
Who it's built for
Built for people who work with their hands on a Mac.
Developers
Cycle between terminal commands, code snippets, API keys, and Stack Overflow answers without losing your place. Transform between naming conventions in one step.
Designers
Copy hex codes, design tokens, asset paths, and component names across Figma, VS Code, and browsers without ever re-navigating. Images in your history, ready to paste.
Writers
Research in Safari, write in your editor. Pin quotes, citations, and reference passages. Transform prose capitalization before pasting into headlines.
Support Agents
Pin canned responses, troubleshooting steps, and escalation templates. Access any response in under two keystrokes — no more copy-pasting from a sticky note doc.
Sales & GTM
Keep prospect names, email templates, LinkedIn links, and CRM URLs within arm's reach. Paste personalized outreach faster than the next tab loads.
HEAD-TO-HEAD BREAKDOWN
How Clipmory compares to other Mac clipboard tools
Native performance, complete on-device privacy, and honest one-time pricing. See why Mac power users choose Clipmory.
I've tried every clipboard manager on the market. Clipmory is the first one I actually kept — the paste-to-active-app alone made it worth it. The privacy shield is why I trust it enough to leave it running.
Marcus T.
Staff Engineer, Series B fintech
★★★★★
The text transformation feature saved my team from a month of reformatting hell. We paste from Google Sheets into our CRM constantly — Clipmory turns case mismatches into a non-issue.
Yael S.
Head of Revenue Ops, SaaS company
★★★★★
As a designer I'm constantly copying hex codes, spacing values, and font names across tools. Clipmory's instant search and type filtering means I'm never fishing around for something I copied 20 minutes ago.
Priya R.
Senior Product Designer, FAANG
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Clipmory is a modern, native macOS application built with SwiftUI. It continuously monitors the NSPasteboard in the background. Every time you copy anything, it's instantly saved to a high-performance local SQLite database. When you press your global hotkey, a floating window appears near your cursor, allowing you to select an item. Clipmory then uses the macOS Accessibility API to automatically simulate a Cmd+V paste into your active app.
Everything is stored 100% locally on your Mac in ~/Library/Application Support/Clipmory/ inside an encrypted, on-device SQLite database. Clipmory is completely offline with zero telemetry, zero analytics, and zero cloud tracking. Your clips never touch any server.
Clipmory automatically detects confidential and transient pasteboards from password managers (1Password, Bitwarden, Apple Passwords & Keychain, KeePassXC, and Dashlane). For copied secrets like API keys or tokens, the Privacy Shield masks the text and requires Touch ID or system authentication to reveal.
Press ⌥⌘C (Option + Command + C) anywhere in macOS to crop any area of your screen. Clipmory runs on-device Apple Vision OCR (Revision 3) to extract text, detects embedded links, and copies the clean text directly to your clipboard in milliseconds — without uploading images to any third-party cloud.
Yes! Clipmory features dedicated top-level tabs for Japanese Kaomoji emoticons (such as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻), a searchable Emoji picker, curated typography & math symbols, and an Animated GIF gallery alongside your clipboard history.
Clipmory uses cryptographic SHA-256 hashing to identify duplicate content. If you recopy something already in your history, Clipmory updates its timestamp and bubbles it to the top instead of creating cluttered duplicates.
Yes. Choose between Tall (vertical list) and Broad (horizontal card grid) window orientations, adjust the scale from 80% to 135%, and choose between Compact, Comfortable, or Spacious density to match your screen setup.
Yes. Click the menu bar icon and toggle "Pause Capture" — or set a shortcut to pause/resume instantly. Clipmory will stop recording until you resume. You can also configure automatic auto-delete retention rules (1 hour, 1 day, 7 days, 30 days, or never).
Clipmory uses a local full-text index (SQLite FTS5) that searches across all clip content, source app names, and file paths in under a millisecond regardless of history size. Type as you search — results update with each keystroke. Filter by type (text, image, GIF, link, etc.) or app with zero cloud latency.
Personal is a one-time purchase of $29.99 — own it forever with no recurring subscriptions. Clipmory includes a 7-day free trial with full, unrestricted access to every feature and no credit card required.
Yes! macOS has no native clipboard history out of the box. Clipmory is built to restore that exact Win+V workflow on your Mac with customizable hotkeys like ⌥⌘V or Cmd + Shift + V. Learn more on our Windows to Mac guide.
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