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Made for macOSNative clipboard manager
Native Mac Clipboard Manager:
That address from Tuesday, the photo from last week, the link you lost: press ⌘⇧V and it's back. It even finds a screenshot by the words inside it, and nothing you copy is ever sent anywhere.
Free to start · no sign-up required · eligible subscribers may receive a 7-day Pro trial · macOS 13+
Three moments you already know.
Nothing here is a demo trick. These are the reasons people keep ClipBuddy in the menu bar.
- 01⌘⌥Z
You copied over something you still needed.
One shortcut puts the previous copy back on your clipboard. No hunting, no retyping, no going back to the tab you already closed.
- 02⌘⇧V
The screenshot you want is somewhere in four hundred screenshots.
ClipBuddy reads the words inside your images on your Mac, so searching “invoice” surfaces the right screenshot, and you can copy the text straight out of it.
- 03⌘⇧V
You retype the same three paragraphs every week.
Save them once as a snippet with a keyword. Type the keyword, hit Enter, and ClipBuddy fills the placeholders and puts the result on your clipboard, ready for ⌘V.
No permissions needed to start. ClipBuddy runs as soon as you open it: no scary pop-ups. macOS only asks for permission if you later turn on an optional extra like direct paste, voice search or watching a screenshot folder.
One small app instead of eight little tools.
Clipboard history, snippets, an emoji picker, QR codes, translation and text cleanup: in the menu bar, a keystroke away.
Instant search.
Find anything.
Search thousands of clips in milliseconds by keyword, by meaning, and even the words inside your screenshots. Type “wifi password” and it finds the clip, even if you never copied those exact words. Tap a chip to see only links, pictures, code or files (try it right here). In the app you can also filter by the app you copied from, or by date, and save any search to reuse it.
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Smart Actions
Context-aware tools the moment you copy.
ClipBuddy automatically detects what’s on your clipboard and surfaces the exact action you need. Calculate math expressions, preview and convert color codes, extract text from screenshots via Apple Vision OCR, or generate QR codes, completely on-device without cloud latency.
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rgb(242, 106, 13)Instant swatch & color converter whenever you copy any hex, rgb, or hsl string.
Snippets & Templates
Type less. Automate your daily writing.
Store frequently used replies, code boilerplate, and email templates with instant keyword triggers. ClipBuddy automatically fills in dynamic variables like today’s date, clipboard contents, and custom fill-in prompts so you never re-type repetitive messages.
Clipboard Rules & Automations.
It files your clips automatically. You just copy.
Set conditions once and let ClipBuddy silently automate your workflow in the background. Strip tracking parameters from URLs, auto-burn single-use verification codes, compress screenshots, or tag code from your IDE, without ever opening the picker.
Strip Link Trackers
1. WHEN YOU COPY
https://stripe.com/docs?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR09...Clean Tracking Parameters
2. CLIPBUDDY FILES AUTOMATICALLY
https://stripe.com/docsAutomatically strips utm_source, utm_medium, fbclid, gclid from the URL before saving.
Built-in Diff Tool.
Compare any two clips in one keystroke (⌘⇧X).
Mark any two items in your history with ⌘M and press ⌘⇧X. ClipBuddy generates an instant, syntax-aware unified or split diff on your Mac: no external diff tools, no web uploaders, zero tracking.
Clip A: Staging config (10m ago)Clip B: Production release config (just now)1 "service": "billing-engine",
2 "version": "3.0.0",
3−- "timeoutMs": 3000,
4++ "timeoutMs": 5000,
5−- "retryPolicy": "none",
6++ "retryPolicy": "exponentialBackoff",
7++ "idempotencyKey": true,
8 "encryption": "AES-256-GCM"
Your data.
100% private.
Everything stays on your Mac. There is no server, no account and no sync. Your copies have nowhere to go but your own computer.
Stays on your Mac
There is no server to upload to. ClipBuddy ships without the outbound-network entitlement, so the app cannot make a network request at all. This is enforced by macOS, not by our policy.
History, search and screenshot-text recognition work offline. Translation, voice search and AI run locally when their required Apple language and model resources are available.
No tracking
No analytics of any kind, on what you copy or on how you use the app. There is nothing to opt out of because nothing is collected.
There is also no account and no sign-in, so there is no profile for any of it to attach to.
Secrets handled for you
When a source app marks a copy as concealed (password managers and secure fields do this), ClipBuddy never saves it at all. It does not reach your history in the first place.
If you turn on Detect & vault secrets, a copy ClipBuddy recognises as a secret (a card number, an IBAN, an API token, a private key) goes into the Touch ID Vault on Pro. The setting is off by default.
App exclusions
Name any app (such as your banking app, a password manager, or an internal tool) and ClipBuddy stops capturing anything copied while that app is in front.
This is a blunt instrument on top of the automatic handling above, for cases where you would rather not rely on the source app marking things correctly.
Made for how you work.
One native Mac app, built around your muscle memory, that keeps your clipboard organized across every tool.
100% Native AppKit
Written in pure Swift 6. Opens in milliseconds, uses 14 MB of RAM, and sits quietly in your menu bar using 0% CPU.
Keyboard-driven speed
Press ⌘⇧V, filter instantly, hit Enter to paste. Designed so your hands never need to leave the keyboard.
On-device SQLite index
Stores thousands of text, image, link, file, and code clips securely in a local SQLite database with zero cloud latency.
Zero network sandbox
Shipped without the outbound network client entitlement. Your clipboard physically cannot be sent anywhere.
You never have to reach for the mouse.
Full keyboard control over every clip, search, transform, and slot.
⌘⇧V opentype search⏎ copy back⌘V paste⌘M multi-paste⌘⌥S paste stack⌘⌥V paste next⌘⇧X diff⌘⌥Z undo a copy⌘⌥T extract text⌘K quick actions⌘⌫ deleteesc close
Big things coming to ClipBuddy.
Next update: Markdown Notes with links, a graph and version history, plus Snippets 2.0 with on-device AI. After that, an MCP server for AI agents, iPhone and iPad apps, private end-to-end encrypted sync and smart suggestions.
AI Developer Protocol
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Local context for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Zed
Connect ClipBuddy directly to your local AI coding agents. Agents can query your clipboard history, inspect error traces, and retrieve code snippets without manual roundtrips. 100% offline with zero cloud telemetry.
100% on-device stdio transport
Direct Claude Desktop and Cursor support
Zero network telemetry or data egress
Status: Planned
View roadmap detailsClaude / CursorAgent Prompt
"Find the PostgreSQL connection string and staging secrets I copied earlier."
clipbuddy-mcp://search?source=local
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://app_user:s3cr3t@localhost:5432/clipbuddy_dev
CACHE_REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379/0Found in 1.2ms via stdio socket · 0 network requests · 100% on-device
Planned
AI Developer Protocol
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Connect ClipBuddy directly to your local AI coding agents. Agents can query your clipboard history, inspect error traces, and retrieve code snippets without manual roundtrips. 100% offline with zero cloud telemetry.
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Planned
iOS 18 Companion
ClipBuddy for iPhone
Carry your clipboard in your pocket. Features a custom iOS keyboard extension to paste clips anywhere, Lock Screen and Action Button widgets, camera Vision OCR capture, and private zero-knowledge iCloud sync with your Mac.
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Planned
iPadOS Productivity
ClipBuddy for iPad
Engineered for Stage Manager and Split View. Keep a floating clipboard palette beside your workspace, drag clips directly into Notes or Procreate, and use full hardware keyboard shortcuts (⌘⇧V).
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Planned
Zero-Knowledge CloudKit
Private E2E Encrypted Sync
Your clipboard will sync across all your Apple devices using iCloud CloudKit, encrypted on your device with your Keychain before anything leaves. Strictly opt-in and zero-knowledge: not even Apple can read it. No account, no email, no password.
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Planned
On-Device Intelligence
Smart Suggestions
ClipBuddy learns your daily working patterns entirely on-device, then surfaces the clip you are about to need before you open the picker. A meeting link before your next call, a code snippet before you switch to your IDE. Private, silent, instant.
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Next update
Native Markdown Engine
Markdown Editor
A Markdown editor built into ClipBuddy. Write in source with syntax colouring and a formatting toolbar, switch to preview to read it rendered, and find or replace across the note. Headings, lists, tasks, tables, callouts, maths and fenced code coloured by its language, all rendered on your Mac.
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Next update
Persistent Notes Layer
Notes
A Notes workspace for what you want to keep, not just until it ages out of history: meeting notes, task lists, code references. Link notes with [[links]], see what links back, browse them as a graph, and search them from the picker. Everything stays on your Mac.
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Next update
Note Versions + Snippets 2.0
Note Versions + Snippets 2.0
Two upgrades shipping together. Every note keeps a version timeline: compare any snapshot with the current text and restore it, with your current draft saved first. Snippets 2.0 adds tokens, fill-in fields, on-device AI prompts and chains, and a code-aware editor that formats, checks and converts JSON, YAML, SQL, CSV and more. Find a snippet by its abbreviation in the picker or give it a shortcut.
Explore Interactive Demo ➔
Why I built ClipBuddy
I kept needing something I had copied an hour earlier and having no way to get it back: a link, a code from a text message, an address. So I built the clipboard app I always wanted: fast, out of the way, and completely private. Your copies stay on your Mac. That's a promise the design makes, not just me.
Choose the plan that works for you.
Start free with no account. Upgrade inside the app only when ClipBuddy has earned its place on your Mac.
Free forever
Free
Free
No sign-up · keep it forever
- Your last 10 copies, always ready (no account needed)
- Any copy back in a keystroke (⌘⇧V)
- Emoji picker ⌘⌥E: 2,300+ emoji
- Get back a copy you overwrote (⌘⌥Z)
- Hide ClipBuddy from screen shares & recordings
- 100% private: stays on your Mac
Eligible subscribers may receive a 7-day Pro trial
Monthly
Pro Monthly
$1.99 / month
Flexible · cancel anytime
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Full history: unlimited & searchable
- Search by meaning: “that wifi password”
- Filter by app, type or date: save searches you reuse
- Describe what you want and it builds the filters (macOS 26+)
- Redact passwords, cards and faces out of a screenshot
- Rules that clean up, file and lock what you copy
- AI that shortens or cleans up text, privately (macOS 26+)
- Find screenshots by their words & copy the text out
- Copy several things, paste them back in order
- Snippets, collections & text tools
- Encrypted backups you own: restore your history on a new Mac
- +15 more features →
Billed monthly · Apple confirms trial eligibility
Best value · save 46%
Pro Annual
$12.99 / year
≈ $1.08/month · cancel anytime
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Full history: unlimited & searchable
- Search by meaning: “that wifi password”
- Filter by app, type or date: save searches you reuse
- Describe what you want and it builds the filters (macOS 26+)
- Redact passwords, cards and faces out of a screenshot
- Rules that clean up, file and lock what you copy
- AI that shortens or cleans up text, privately (macOS 26+)
- Find screenshots by their words & copy the text out
- Copy several things, paste them back in order
- Snippets, collections & text tools
- Encrypted backups you own: restore your history on a new Mac
- +15 more features →
Eligible subscribers: 7 days free · then $12.99/yr
Deploying ClipBuddy across a team, studio, or enterprise?
Equip your engineers, designers, and operations teams with macOS's fastest private clipboard manager. Get volume discounts, centralized invoicing, custom MDM deployment (Jamf, Kandji, Mosyle), and direct access to the developer.
Volume seat discounts for 5, 20, or 100+ Macs
Zero network egress: 100% on-device (SOC2 & HIPAA safe)
MDM & fleet deployment configuration ready
Direct developer access & 1-on-1 team onboarding
Roadmap prioritization for team workflow needs
Single corporate invoice & purchase order billing
Volume Pricing
Let's Talk
Custom quotes tailored to your team size & deployment needs
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Apple In-App Purchase
100% processed securely by Apple ID. No third-party payment gateways or web forms.
Synced to your Apple ID
One purchase works across all personal Macs signed into your Apple ID. Restore anytime with one click.
No Card Upfront
Download and use free forever without entering payment details. Cancel anytime in System Settings.
What is ClipBuddy?
ClipBuddy is a native macOS clipboard manager app (a Mac app, not a browser extension). It remembers everything you copy (text, images, links, files and code) so you can search your history and paste anything again instantly.
Does Mac save clipboard history?
Not one you can open natively. macOS gives you no built-in list of what you have copied. ClipBuddy adds that history: it saves everything you copy so you can search it and paste an older copy any time.
Where does copied text go on a Mac?
Copied text goes onto the macOS pasteboard, but macOS gives you no built-in history you can open. With ClipBuddy running, every copy is also kept in a searchable history on your Mac, so an earlier copy stays easy to find.
How do I paste something I copied earlier on Mac?
Press Command-Shift-V to open ClipBuddy, type a word from what you copied earlier (or scroll the list), and press Enter. That older copy is back on your clipboard, and Command-V pastes it into the app you were using.
How do I copy and paste multiple things on Mac?
ClipBuddy keeps a running list of your copies. Copy as many items as you like, then multi-select them in the picker and copy them back as one combined clip, or bring any single item back to your clipboard with one keystroke.
How do I open my clipboard history on Mac?
Press Command-Shift-V (Cmd+Shift+V) anywhere to open ClipBuddy, type to search your history, and press Enter to copy it back, then Command-V to paste.
Can ClipBuddy search the text inside images and screenshots?
Yes. ClipBuddy reads the words inside screenshots and images on your Mac, so you can find a screenshot by searching for the text it contains, and copy that text back out.
Does ClipBuddy support snippets?
Yes. Save reusable text as snippets with keyword triggers and dynamic placeholders (date, time, clipboard, fill-in fields, UUID). Press Command-Shift-V, type the keyword, and press Enter: ClipBuddy fills the placeholders and puts the snippet on your clipboard, ready to paste with Command-V.
Is ClipBuddy private and secure?
Yes. Your clipboard history never leaves your Mac: there is no cloud, no tracking, and no analytics on what you copy. Copies a source app marks concealed, such as anything from a password manager, are never saved at all. If you enable Detect & vault secrets, recognized credentials go into the Touch ID Vault on Pro instead of your plain history; this setting is off by default. ClipBuddy ships without the outbound-network entitlement, so it makes no network requests at all.
Does ClipBuddy work offline?
Yes. History, search and reading the words inside screenshots work offline. Translation, voice search and AI also run locally when their required Apple language and model resources are available; ClipBuddy itself ships without outbound-network access.
Does ClipBuddy need special permissions to work?
Core clipboard history works without special permission prompts. Optional direct paste, voice search and screenshot-folder access request only the relevant macOS permission when you enable those features.
Can ClipBuddy act on what I copy, like a phone number or address?
Yes. ClipBuddy notices what a clip is and offers a one-tap action: a phone number offers Call, an email offers a new message, an address offers Map, a link opens, a sum shows its answer and a colour shows a swatch. It spots these inside screenshots too.
Does ClipBuddy have an emoji picker?
Yes. Press Command-Option-E to open a searchable emoji picker with more than 2,300 emoji, including country flags and skin-tone variants, generated on your Mac.
Do I need an account to use ClipBuddy?
No: there is no account or sign-in at all. Upgrading to Pro is a purchase through the Mac App Store, handled entirely by Apple.
Is ClipBuddy free?
ClipBuddy is free for your last 10 clips. Eligible subscribers may receive a 7-day free trial of Pro; Apple confirms eligibility before purchase. Pro unlocks unlimited searchable history, filters, snippets and more for $1.99 per month or $12.99 per year. Prices are shown in your own currency on the App Store.
Does ClipBuddy have a one-time or lifetime purchase?
Yes. Besides the monthly and yearly Pro plans, ClipBuddy offers a one-time Lifetime license for $24.99: pay once and own Pro forever.
Which macOS version does ClipBuddy need?
ClipBuddy runs on macOS 13 (Ventura) and later.
How to see your clipboard history on Mac
See everything you've copied on macOS and bring any earlier copy back to your clipboard in one keystroke, using ClipBuddy.
- 1Install ClipBuddy
Get ClipBuddy from the Mac App Store and launch it: a clipboard icon appears in the menu bar.
- 2Keep copying as normal
ClipBuddy saves everything you copy (text, images, links, files and code) into a private, on-device history.
- 3Open your history
Press Command-Shift-V (⌘⇧V) anywhere to open your searchable clipboard history.
- 4Search and paste
Type to find any earlier copy, even the text inside a screenshot, then press Enter to copy it back to your clipboard and paste it with Command-V.
Stop losing what you copy.
Get ClipBuddy on the Mac App Store: free to start, no account, nothing to lose.
Free to start · no sign-up required · eligible subscribers may receive a 7-day Pro trial · macOS 13+
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