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    A better clipboard for Mac

    Your clipboard, remembered.

    Clip & Board keeps the text and links you copy within reach, so you never have to copy something twice.

    Download the betaSee how it works

    Built for macOS · Apple Silicon · macOS 14+

    Public beta, not notarized yet. The release notes show how to open it the first time.

    The Clip & Board popup: a search field above a list of copied items, newest first, each with the time it was copied. A command, a file path, an Authorization header, a SQL query marked as a favorite, and a GitHub link.

    Everything you copied. Still there.

    Clip & Board keeps your clipboard history close, so useful things don't disappear the moment you copy something new.

    Copy something once.
    Find it again later.

    We’ve all copied something useful, replaced it with something else, and immediately wished we hadn’t.

    Clip & Board gives your clipboard a memory.

    Your clipboard has a memory now.

    Browse what you've copied before and bring it back when you need it.

    Clip & Board's history list with the third item, “npm install expo-router”, selected from the keyboard. The footer lists the keys: Return to copy, Command-S to favorite, Delete, Tab to search, Escape to close.

    • Still there after a restart

      History is saved on your Mac, so quitting doesn't clear it.

    • Every copy, timestamped

      Today, yesterday, or the date, with the time you copied it.

    • You set the limits

      By default it keeps up to 1,000 items for 30 days. Change both in Settings.

    Find it without remembering where it went.

    Search your clipboard history instead of scrolling through everything you've copied.

    • The search field has focus the moment it opens. Just type.
    • Ignores case and accents. Every word you type has to match.
    • ⌘F jumps back to search from the list.
    Clip & Board with favorites first: a starred SQL query and a starred Apple documentation link sit above the rest of the history.

    Keep the things worth keeping.

    Star what you reuse. Delete what you don't. Decide how long the rest stays.

    Favorite it⌘S
    Favorites sit at the top of the list and are kept no matter what your retention and item limits say. Click the star to see only them.
    Delete it⌫
    Changed your mind? ⌘Z brings it back within 5 seconds.
    Decide how long
    Keep history for an hour, a day, 7 days, 30 days or forever. Or clear it all in one step.

    Keep your hands on the keyboard.

    Open Clip & Board, find what you need, and get back to work without breaking your flow.

    The shortcut is Control, Command, V.

    Clip & Board opens

    from any app, with search ready.

    Move through history
    ↑↓
    Copy the selected item
    ↩︎
    Search
    ⌘F
    Favorite
    ⌘S
    Delete
    ⌫
    Undo a delete
    ⌘Z
    Switch between search and list
    ⇥
    Close
    esc

    ⌃⌘V is the default. Pick your own in Settings. It needs ⌘, ⌥ or ⌃, and can’t be a standard command like ⌘C.

    Clip & Board's notch view: a black panel hanging from the top of the screen that lists the six most recent copies, numbered 1 to 6, with their times and a Search button.

    Click the notch, or the top of the menu bar on screens without one. Your last six copies drop down. Click one, or press 1–6.

    Made for Mac.

    Clip & Board is designed around the way you already use macOS.

    The Clip & Board popup: a search field above a list of copied items, newest first, each with the time it was copied. A command, a file path, an Authorization header, a SQL query marked as a favorite, and a GitHub link.
    The same Clip & Board popup in Dark Mode.

    Light or Dark, it follows your Mac’s appearance.

    • Lives in the menu bar

      No Dock icon. The menu-bar icon shows a pause symbol while capture is paused.

    • Doesn't steal focus

      It opens over the app you're in, and that app stays in front, like Spotlight.

    • Swift and SwiftUI

      A native app with no third-party dependencies.

    Your clipboard is yours.

    Your clipboard can contain passwords, private messages, API keys, addresses and other sensitive information. Clip & Board is designed with privacy in mind. Here is exactly where your data lives.

    Your Mac

    Clip & Board

    Clipboard history
    Encrypted with AES-256-GCM
    In your Mac’s Application Support folder
    Encryption key
    In your macOS Keychain
    Never next to the database
    Stays on your Mac.No servers. No account. No analytics.Sync between your own Macs is optional, and off until you turn it on.
    Stored on your Mac
    Your history lives in a database in your Mac's Application Support folder.
    Encrypted at rest
    Contents are encrypted with AES-256-GCM. The key is kept in your macOS Keychain, never next to the database.
    No internet code
    No servers, cloud, uploads or update checks. No analytics, telemetry or AI processing.
    No account
    Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to.
    Secrets are caught on your Mac
    Recognised API keys and private keys are never stored. Session tokens (JWTs) and one-time codes are deleted after 30 seconds. Detection is heuristic, so it can't catch every secret.
    Password managers are respected
    Anything a password manager marks as concealed or transient is never recorded.
    Sync is optional, and off by default
    Turn it on and new copies go straight to your own paired Macs on the same network, end-to-end encrypted, with no server in between.
    Read the privacy policy
    Clip & Board after copying two secrets. A JWT shows as a masked, locked row reading “Sensitive · expires in 30s”. The footer says “A secret was detected and not stored.”
    Copy a secret and it’s either never stored, or kept for 30 seconds and then deleted. Sensitive items show masked.

    • Remember.

      Your history is kept, encrypted, even after a restart.

    • Find.

      Search everything you've copied before.

    • Paste.

      Bring it back with ↩︎.

    Stop losing things you’ve already copied.

    Give your clipboard a memory.

    Download the beta

    For macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon

    Public beta, not notarized yet. The release notes show how to open it the first time.

    The same Clip & Board popup in Dark Mode.