ClipBuddy for iPhone and iPad

ClipBuddy keeps what you copy on your iPhone and iPad in a history you can search, and its own keyboard types any of it into the app you are writing in. It is the same App Store app as ClipBuddy for Mac, so one Pro purchase covers all three.

Save what you copy

• Tap Paste at the top of ClipBuddy to save whatever is on your clipboard.
• Turn on Save when opened and ClipBuddy saves the clipboard each time you open it. Set Paste from Other Apps to Allow for ClipBuddy in the Settings app and it stops asking.
• Share to ClipBuddy from another app: text, a link, up to 5 images or up to 5 files. A PDF comes in as its text, so you can search it.
• Copies that an app marks as concealed, such as passwords, are never saved.

Find it again

• Search everything you saved, then narrow it by type or by date. On the free plan, search covers your last 10 clips.
• Pin what you keep coming back to, and file clips under labels (Pro).
• Long press a clip to see all of it. Tap that to open Peek, with its word and character counts.
• Copy Text pulls the words out of a screenshot, and Scan QR reads a code in a photo. Both run on your device with Apple’s Vision framework.

Type it from the ClipBuddy keyboard

• Your latest clips and snippets sit on the keyboard. Tap one and it is typed where your cursor is.
• A snippet with fill-in fields asks for the name or date it needs first, and its date fields are filled in when you type it.
• Letter layouts for 12 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, Russian and Ukrainian. The keyboard follows the languages set on your iPhone.
• It works without Full Access, so it cannot reach the network.
• With Pro, Paste Stack collects your copies and the keyboard types them one after another.

Notes and snippets

• Markdown notes with tasks, tables, code, callouts and [[links]] between notes, and a reading view where a tap ticks a task.
• Star, pin and tag notes, and find them by any word in them.
• Snippets for text you type often, with a keyword, kept in groups.
• Free keeps 10 notes and 10 snippets. Pro has no limit.

Work with text

• Change case, trim, sort lines, count words, format JSON and more.
• Decode JWTs, convert colours, read Unix times and pull URLs apart.
• Select several clips and merge them into one. With Pro, compare two.
• With Pro, clipboard rewind puts back what was on the clipboard before.

On iPad, and with a keyboard

• More columns of clips, and a note opens beside the list of notes.
• Drag a clip into another app.
• With a hardware keyboard on iPad or iPhone, ⌘F searches, Return copies the selected clip, Space shows all of it and ⌘M marks it for multi-select.

Make it yours

• Dozens of themes, including Nord, Dracula, Catppuccin and Solarized, in light and dark.
• 16 backgrounds.
• Text that follows your text size setting.

Private by design

• No account, and nothing to sign up for.
• The app contains no networking code, and every build is checked for it before it ships. Its App Store privacy label is Data Not Collected.
• Save a backup of your history to Files, with a passphrase if you like, and restore it from there.
• The privacy policy has the details for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Not on iPhone yet

• Saving in the background. iPhone does not allow it for any app, so a copy comes in when you tap Paste, open ClipBuddy with Save when opened on, or share to it.
• Sync between your devices. It is planned, and it will be optional. See the roadmap.
• Diagrams, charts, Buddy and the on-device AI tools, rules and the Touch ID Vault are on the Mac only for now.