Search it, do not scroll it
Start typing and the list narrows as you go, Chinese input included. Arrow keys move the selection, ⌘1–9 grabs one of the first nine outright, and Return copies the selected entry and closes the panel.
ClipStack for macOS
Everything you copied is still there. ⇧⌘V
macOS remembers exactly one thing you copied. ClipStack keeps the rest — text, images and files — in a searchable panel that opens over whatever you are doing, previews the full contents, and puts the one you want back on the clipboard with a single keystroke.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon · MIT licensed · about 1000 lines of Swift, no dependencies
Real history, invented on purpose: every entry in this recording is demo data.
A clipboard that keeps up with you.
Copy three things in a row and all three are waiting — not just the last one.
Text, images and files
Rich text keeps its formatting, images stay images, and files copied in Finder come back as files. The preview pane on the right shows the whole thing before you commit to it — not a truncated line.
Keep it on screen while you work
⌘T pins the panel above every window and stops it closing when it loses focus or after a copy. It becomes a reference card you read from while typing somewhere else — the state survives a restart.
The ones you keep reusing, pinned
⌘P pins an entry to the top of the list and out of the way of the 300-entry limit, so the snippet you paste ten times a day never falls off the end.
Every key, and where it goes.
- ⇧⌘VOpen the panel over whatever app you are in
- ↩Copy the selected entry and close
- ⌘1–9Copy one of the first nine directly
- ⌘PPin or unpin the selected entry
- ⌘TKeep the panel on top and open
- ⌘⌫Delete the selected entry
- ⇧⌘⌫Clear the whole history, after a confirmation
- ⌘,Settings — launch at login, and all three shortcuts are re-recordable
It stays on your Mac
History lives in a plain folder in your Library and goes nowhere else. There is no account, no sync, no analytics and no network call except the update check.
Anything a password manager marks as concealed or transient is never recorded, following the nspasteboard.org convention — so the password you just copied does not end up in a list.
Also from the same menu bar
