Clipboard history for Mac
Keep everything you copy and quickly access your macOS clipboard history whenever you need it.
Clipbook is an incredible app with an incredible UI and I hope to use it a lot more in the future.
Tad Jimenez
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Yuvraj Sarda
I've been using your app and to be honest, it's great! Thank you very much.
Mauricio
Unlimited clipboard history
Keep everything you copy
ClipBook runs in background and remembers everything you copy. You will never loose what you have already copied.
Unlimited clipboard history
Keep everything you copy today, yesterday, last week, or even months ago in the clipboard history on your Mac.
Full preview & details
Quickly preview the full content of each item in your clipboard history to locate the right one before pasting it. To show/hide preview pane press ⌘P.
It helps you to verify the content and prevent mistakes that may occur when copying and pasting almost identical content.
Paste without formatting
Eliminate accidental formatting inconsistencies when copying and pasting text from different sources such as websites, PDFs, rich text editors, etc.
Quick paste
Paste any of the first 9 items from the history using the ⌘1..9 keyboard shortcuts. Hold ⌘ to show the numbers.
Quick access
Your clipboard history is always at your hands. To open your macOS clipboard history just press the following global keyboard shortcut.
shift
⌘
command
V
Keyboard centric
Don't waste your time moving your hands away from your keyboard. You can work with ClipBook using only keyboard.
Paste directly to the active app
Press ↵ or double click the item to paste selected item directly to the currently active application.
Copy and merge
Copy text in other macOS apps using ⌘CC to automatically append it to the previous text item in your macOS clipboard history.
Copy to Clipboard
You can copy any item back to macOS system clipboard using ⌘C if you don't want to paste it to the active app.
Copy text from image
If an image in you clipboard history has text, you can extract and copy it to system clipboard using the ⇧⌘C keyboard shortcut.
Open link in web browser
If your clipboard history item represents a link/URL, you can open it in your system web browser app using ⌥↵.
Quick search
Find anything you copied
Just start typing to find what you need. Including text in images.
Control
Edit your clipboard history
Everything in your clipboard history is under you control. You can edit items, mark items as favorites, delete individual items of clear the entire history.
Edit items
You can edit any text item including links, colors, and email addresses. Use ⌘E or just click the text in preview to edit.
Add to favorites
You can mark items as favorites using ⌘S. They will be pinned at the top of your history.
Delete item
You can quickly delete individual items in your clipboard history using ⌘⌫.
Delete all items
To clear the entire history use ⇧⌘⌫. The items marked as favorites won't be deleted.
Customizable
Make it look the way you want
ClipBook is highly customizable. You can configure its user interface, behavior, color theme (dark, light, system), and keyboard shortcuts to fit your needs.
Move and resize window
You can move and resize ClipBook window on your screen. It will remember its position and size for each screen.
Show/hide/resize preview pane
You can quickly show or hide the preview pane. Resize it to fit your needs.
Show/hide details pane
You can hide the details pane to have more space for the preview pane.
Custom keyboard shortcuts
You can customize any ClipBook keyboard shortcut to fit your workflows.
Multiple screens
ClipBook remembers its position and size for each screen. By default, it's displayed on the active screen.
Auto-updates
With enabled automatic updates, you will always have the latest stable version of ClipBook.
Launch at login
You can configure ClipBook to launch automatically when you log in to your Mac.
Hide app menu bar icon
ClipBook runs in background and displays an icon in the menu bar. You can hide it if you don't want to see it.
Security and Privacy
Your data is your data
All data is securely stored locally on your Mac computer and never leaves it.
- No cloud
- No built-in analytics
- No app metrics
- No tracking
Ignore transient and confidential content
Configure whether you want to save passwords, temporary placed data to the clipboard, and other sensitive data copied to the clipboard.
Pause/resume
Pause ClipBook when you don't want it to capture the clipboard data. Useful during sessions when you need to copy some sensitive information and you don't want it to be in your clipboard history.
Ignore applications
Do not save content copied from the applications you add to the list of ignored applications.
Clear entire history on quit or Mac restart
You can configure ClipBook to clear the entire clipboard history on app quit or when you restart/shutdown your Mac.
Open source
The source code of ClipBook is public. You can check it and make sure it's safe, secure, and it doesn't send any data to external web servers. All your data is private.
It's all about time
For people who often copy and paste.
Standard macOS clipboard stores only one item. You can accidentally overwrite it. If you copy and paste a lot. If you don't want to waste your time searching for information that was copied previously. If you are tired of constantly switching applications for copying and pasting. Then ClipBook is for you. Once you try it, you will no longer be able to imagine working on a Mac without this app.
Use cases
A better clipboard for everyone.
Save time and reduce interruptions in your daily workflows.
Software Developers
Copy multiple code snippets, examples, API references, terminal commands, stack traces, or log messages to your clipboard history in a row and quickly access them when needed during development tasks.
Technical Writers
Quickly access all the copied documentation snippets, URLs, research notes, citations, ChatGPT suggestions, and references during your writing sessions. Write more in less time. Focus on producing high-quality documentation.
Support Agents
Keep standard responses for common issues, reference customer information or previous interactions. Quickly access the needed information during troubleshooting sessions. Reduce response time and provide more efficient support to customers.
Sales Representatives
Reference past conversations, agreements, product specifications, pricing details, shipping information, return policies, case studies, or customer testimonials during sales presentations or negotiations. Streamline your proposal creation process and increase sales effectiveness.
Lawyers
Store and access contracts, agreements, legal citations, standard clauses, statutes, boilerplate language, or case law excerpts during legal research. Minimize repetitive typing. Save time and improve your research process and accuracy.
Marketing Specialists
Remember and reference URLs, hashtags, subject lines, email templates, image captions, video links, blog post drafts, or your content ideas during content creating process. Improve efficiency, creativity, and effectiveness in your marketing efforts.
Designers
References frequently used color codes, hex values, or font names when creating designs. Store and retrieve texts, code snippets, CSS stylesheets, HTML templates, UI components from your clipboard history. Enhance your creativity and streamline the design process.
Students
Copy information from various sources when conducting research for assignments or working on your academic tasks. Reduce distractions and focus more on your studies, rather than wasting time re-copying information.
Teachers
Access all the copied articles, lecture notes, or worksheets from various sources when preparing lesson materials. Paste common comments and corrections when providing feedback to students.
With love
Get it. Try it. Use it if you like it.
I hope you enjoy using ClipBook and it saves you a few hours each week. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact me.
Founder of ClipBook
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Don't worry about losing copied content or having to find and re-copy information multiple times.