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How-to guides Learn ClipBuddy, one feature at a time.

Short, practical guides to every feature: what it does, the exact steps, and what it needs. All 24 are written against the version on the App Store.

  • 24 guides
  • 6 topics
  • 13 with a live preview
Quick answer

Press ⌘⇧V to open your clipboard history, type to search it, and press Enter to put a clip back on the clipboard. Every other feature has its own guide below.

Getting started

Start here.

The four things that make ClipBuddy useful on day one. Read them in order, the first one takes two minutes.

Guide 1 Free ⌘⇧V

Clipboard history

Press ⌘⇧V to open ClipBuddy, use the arrow keys or type to find the clip you want, then press Enter to put it back on your clipboard and ⌘V to paste it.

  1. Open the picker Press ⌘⇧V anywhere in macOS. ClipBuddy opens over whatever app you are in, without stealing your text cursor.
  2. Find the clip Type a few words to filter your history, or move through it with the arrow keys. Text, images, links, files, code and JSON are all kept.
  3. Put it back on the clipboard Press Enter. ClipBuddy confirms with a small HUD and closes.
  4. Paste it Press ⌘V in your app. That is Clipboard mode, the default. Switch to Active-app mode in Settings and Enter also pastes the clip into the app you were using.
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Live preview, built from the app's own interface. Click around, it works.
  1. Guide 2 Live preview Search Pro Open the picker with ⌘⇧V and start typing. ClipBuddy matches words, tolerates typos, and can also find clips by meaning, by the app they came from, or by date using filter chips.
  2. Guide 3 Live preview Collections and labels Pro Group clips into named collections, pin the ones you reuse so they stay at the top, and give a label its own hotkey to filter the picker in one keystroke.
  3. Guide 4 Copy sessions Pro ClipBuddy groups your history into sessions, split whenever you step away for more than half an hour and labelled by the app you used most, so you can reopen an entire sitting and copy anything back.
3 guides

Make it yours

Where the picker opens, how it is laid out, and how it looks.

6 guides

Paste faster

Stacks, slots, undo, snippets, and the keys that drive them.

6 guides

Images and text

Read text out of screenshots, cover secrets, reshape any clip.

2 guides

Automation and AI

Let rules act the moment you copy, and run Apple's on-device model over a clip.

3 guides

Privacy and control

What ClipBuddy captures, what it hides, and what it never stores in plain text.

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The support page answers setup questions and has a direct line to the developer. Or see every feature working on one page.

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