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Welcome to the ClipBuddy Site Directory. Below is an index of all guides, comparison matrices, workflow tutorials, and technical resources available on clipbuddyapp.com.

1. Product & Feature Overview

  • ClipBuddy Homepage: The native, 100% private macOS clipboard manager with on-device screenshot OCR, sequential paste stacks, and an honest $24.99 Lifetime license.
  • Pricing & Plans: Transparent 4-tier Mac App Store licensing: Free Forever, Pro Monthly ($1.99), Pro Yearly ($12.99 / save 46%), and Pro Lifetime ($24.99 one-time).
  • Version History & Changelog: Complete release notes and feature timeline from version 3.0 down through the version 2.0 rewrite.
  • macOS UI & Screenshots Gallery: Official 5K Retina screenshots, 27 theme options, on-device OCR in action, and compact drawer layouts.
  • All Features: Complete technical specification of ClipBuddy capabilities, including Apple Vision OCR, Touch ID Vault, 14 syntax highlighters, and keyboard shortcuts.
  • Why ClipBuddy & Pricing: Why users choose ClipBuddy over subscription-locked tools. Breakdown of the Free tier, Pro subscription, and Lifetime license.
  • Everyday Use Cases: Real-world workflows for designers, developers, writers, and power users.
  • Product Roadmap: What features have shipped and what is coming next in version 3.0.

2. Learn: How to Use Each Feature

Every ClipBuddy feature has a page of its own: what it does, the exact steps, and what it needs. Start at the Learn hub.

Getting started

  • 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.
  • Search (Pro): Open the picker with ⌘⇧V and start typing.
  • 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.
  • Copy sessions: 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.

Make it yours

  • Picker layout: In Settings, choose where the picker opens (bottom, top, left, right or at the mouse pointer), pick a horizontal ribbon or a grid of 1 to 6 columns, and drag the corner handle on any card to resize it live.
  • Themes and appearance: Open Settings and pick one of 27 accent and card-tint combos, or set your own hex colors.
  • Keyboard shortcuts: ⌘⇧V opens the picker, ⌘⌥E opens emoji, ⌘⌥Z is clipboard undo, ⌘⌥S is the paste stack and ⌘⌥1 to 9 are the slots.

Paste faster

  • Paste stack: Start collecting from the ClipBuddy menu bar, copy several things, then press ⌘⌥S at each destination to paste the next one (Pro).
  • Clipboard slots: Save text into a slot with ⌘⌥⇧1 to ⌘⌥⇧9 and paste it back any time with ⌘⌥1 to ⌘⌥9.
  • Clipboard undo: Press ⌘⌥Z to walk your clipboard back through recent history, so a copy that overwrote something you still needed is not lost.
  • Paste modes: Enter always copies the selected clip; in the default Clipboard mode that is all it does, and you press ⌘V.
  • Snippets: Save reusable text as a snippet with a keyword, then type the keyword in any app to expand it, or pick it from ⌘⇧V.
  • Emoji picker: Press ⌘⌥E to open a searchable picker of more than 2,300 emoji, including flags and skin tones.

Images and text

  • Text in screenshots: ClipBuddy reads the words inside your screenshots on device with Apple Vision, so searching for a word finds the image that contains it, and you can select and copy that text straight out of the picture.
  • Automatic screenshot capture: Point ClipBuddy at the folders your screenshots are saved to and every ⌘⇧3, ⌘⇧4 or ⌘⇧5 capture joins your history automatically, with its text recognized at capture.
  • Redact an image (Pro): Open an image clip, let ClipBuddy find the secrets and faces in it, cover them with opaque boxes and copy the redacted version.
  • Markdown preview: Copy Markdown and open its preview in ClipBuddy to read it rendered, with headings, lists, links and code, then copy back either the original source or the plain text.
  • Developer tools: ClipBuddy can diff two clips side by side, show a copied CSV as a real table, syntax highlight code with the language detected for you, and generate UUIDs, Unix time conversions and parsed URLs, all on device.
  • Transforms: Pick a clip and run a transform on it: case changes, camelCase, snake_case, trim, base64, URL encode, JSON pretty print or minify, hashes, sort and dedupe.

Automation and AI

  • Rules: A rule matches a copy on its app, type, length or text, then acts on it immediately: clean a tracking link, run a transform, extract the email or number, compress an image, pin it, burn it after one paste, or file it under a label.
  • On-device AI (Pro): Turn on the actions you want in Settings, then run them on a text clip: summarize it, rewrite or reformat it, extract action items, or explain code, a regex, a shell command or an error.

Privacy and control

  • Touch ID vault (Pro): Turn on Detect and vault secrets and a recognized credential goes into the Vault instead of plain history.
  • Privacy controls: Add apps to the capture blocklist so they are never recorded, pause capture for a set time from the menu bar, clear history whenever your Mac locks, strip tracking parameters from copied URLs, and hide every ClipBuddy window from screen shares and recordings.
  • Encrypted backups: Export your history to a single passphrase-encrypted file using AES-256-GCM, with the key stretched by PBKDF2-SHA256 over 210,000 iterations.

3. Competitor Comparisons & Alternatives

4. Mac Clipboard Tutorials & How-To Guides

5. Blog & In-Depth Editorial Guides

6. Workflows & Role-Specific Guides

7. Support, Privacy & Technical Feeds