Clipboard history for Mac

The most powerful clipboard history for advanced Mac users. Keep, organize, find, and reuse everything you copy.

macOS 12.0+
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Unlimited clipboard history

Keep everything you copy

ClipBook runs in the background and remembers everything you copy, so you can easily find it and copy it again or paste directly into the current active application.

Text item in ClipBook clipboard history

Paste to active app

Press or double click the item to paste selected item directly to the currently active application.

Copy & Merge

Copy text in other apps using CC to automatically append it to the previous text item in your clipboard history.

Paste in sequence

Paste items one by one using V without opening the clipboard history window. Each paste automatically advances to the next history item.

Copy text from image

If an image or image file in your clipboard history has text, you can extract and copy it to system clipboard.

ClipBook window with the appearance options

Paste multiple items

Select multiple items and paste them all with specific separator. The following separators are supported: Return, ShiftReturn, Up, Down, Space, Tab, none. The items will be pasted in the order they were selected.

ClipBook window with the appearance options

Merge text items

Select multiple text items such as text, links, emails, colors, and merge them into a single item.

ClipBook window with the appearance options

Split a text item

Split a multi-line text item into separate items to paste each line individually.

ClipBook window with the appearance options

Transform text

Apply any of the 78 text transformation options to the text items.

ClipBook window with the appearance options

Open file with external apps

Open file items from your clipboard history in the default or any other application installed on your Mac.

Unlimited clipboard history

Choose how long ClipBook keeps different types of items: a day, a week, a month, a year, or forever.


The favorite items and items with tags can be stored forever.

ClipBook window with the appearance options

Paste as plain text

Eliminate accidental formatting inconsistencies when copying and pasting text from different sources such as websites, PDFs, IDEs, etc.

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.

Paste on single click

Go to SettingsHistory and enable the Paste on single click option to be able to paste item immediately when it’s clicked.

Multiple selection

Select multiple items using only keyboard in your clipboard history to paste, merge, or delete them all at once.

Quick paste

Paste any of the first 9 items from the history using the 1..9 keyboard shortcuts. Hide the shortcuts if necessary.

Import & export history

Export your clipboard history to a file and import it on another Mac. Your history moves with you.

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 B.

Multiple screens

ClipBook remembers its position and size for each screen. By default, it's displayed on the active screen.

Organize

Organize your clipboard history

Keep your clipboard history organized with favorites, tags, custom names, editable content, and flexible sorting.

Mark as favorites. Mark items as favorites to quickly access them later and never delete them.

Pin favorits to top. Display favorite items at the top of the history list.

Assign tags. Assign tags to the items to quickly find them later and filter the history by tag.

Set custom name. Give the meaningful name to any history item to recognize and find it faster.

Edit text content. Edit content of any text item including links, colors, email addresses, etc.

Edit text content of any history item on macOS

Sort history. Sort by last copy time, first copy time, number of copies, size, copy sequence.

Quick search

Find anything you copied

Start typing to find what you need. Find text in the images, the link titles and details. Find the history items by names.

Search text. Find copied text by typing any word or phrase it contains.

Search text in images. Find images by text inside them.

Search links. Search copied links by their URL, page title, or details.

Search by name. Find any clipboard history item using its custom name.

Filter history. Filter clipboard history by type, tags, or source app.

Customize

Make it work 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.

Pin favorites to top

Display your favorite items at the top of the clipboard history list for quick access. Perfect for frequently used items.

ClipBook window with the pin button enabled

Customize keyboard shortcuts

You can customize every keyboard shortcut to fit your workflow.

ClipBook window with the pin button enabled

Pin window

Pin the clipboard history window to keep it visible at all times on top of other windows.

ClipBook window with the pin button enabled

Play sound on copy

Every time you copy something and it's saved to the clipboard history, a sound will be played to notify you.

ClipBook window with the pin button enabled

Treat digits as colors

Configure whether copied hex digits should be recognized and previewed as colors in your clipboard history.

ClipBook window with the pin button enabled

Window position

Choose where the clipboard history window should be displayed.

ClipBook window with the pin button enabled

Appearance

Choose between dark and light mode. Or use the system default.

ClipBook window with the appearance options

Show history at startup

Automatically show the clipboard history window when ClipBook is launched.

Hide icon in menu bar

ClipBook runs in the background and displays an icon in the menu bar. You can hide it anytime.

Launch at login

You can configure ClipBook to launch automatically when you log in to your Mac.

Automatic updates

With enabled automatic updates, you will always have the latest stable version of ClipBook.

Localization

Multiple languages

ClipBook is available in multiple languages including English, English UK, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese.

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Privacy & Security

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
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Ignore confidential content

Configure whether you want to save passwords, temporary placed data to the clipboard, and other sensitive data copied to the clipboard.

Ignore applications

Do not save content copied from specific app. You can add any app to the list of ignored apps.

Pause/resume

Pause ClipBook when you don't want it to remember everything you copy. Assign a global keyboard shortcut to quickly pause/resume ClipBook.

Clear entire history on quit

You can configure ClipBook to clear the entire clipboard history on app quit or Mac restart.

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. Your data never leaves your Mac.

Open GitHub

It's all about time

Copy and paste more efficiently. Save time and boost your productivity.

The standard macOS clipboard stores only one item, making it easy to lose important content.

If you copy and paste on Mac frequently and find yourself searching for previously copied text or switching between apps just to paste, ClipBook is what you need.

With ClipBook, you can save your entire clipboard history, quickly access and find past copies, and copy or paste it directly to the active app.

Try it once. You will love it.

Use cases

A better clipboard for everyone

Save time and reduce interruptions in your daily workflows.

Software Developers

Copy and paste on your Mac code snippets, examples, API references, terminal commands, stack traces, or log messages to your clipboard history for Mac in a row and quickly access them when needed.

Technical Writers

Quickly access all the copied text, 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. Copy and paste text and images. Improve efficiency, creativity, and effectiveness in your marketing efforts.

Designers

References frequently used color codes, hex values, or font names when creating designs. Copy and paste text and images on your Mac, CSS stylesheets, HTML templates. Quickly access 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. Copy and paste multiple texts at once. Paste common comments and corrections when providing feedback to students.

With love

Get it. Try it. Buy 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.

Vladimir Ikryanov avatar

Founder of ClipBook

FAQ

ClipBook is a powerful clipboard history app that runs in the background that automatically saves everything you copy on your Mac, making it easy to find, search, and reuse previously copied content.

Your clipboard history is stored locally on your Mac. ClipBook does not use cloud sync, user accounts, analytics, or server-side clipboard storage.

Yes. ClipBook can detect potentially sensitive content, such as passwords and one-time verification codes, and avoid saving them to your clipboard history. You can also configure exclusion rules for specific applications.

Yes. You can temporarily pause clipboard capture at any time. While paused, newly copied content will not be saved to your clipboard history until you resume capture.

Yes. ClipBook provides fast search across your clipboard history, allowing you to quickly find text, text in images, links with specific URLs, titles and descriptions, files and folders, colors, email addresses, etc.

ClipBook supports many common clipboard formats, including:

  • Plain text
  • Rich text (RTF)
  • HTML
  • Links and URLs
  • Email addresses
  • Images
  • Colors
  • Files and folders

Support for additional clipboard formats may vary depending on the application that created the content.

No. ClipBook is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Your license includes lifetime software updates and lifetime support, with plans available for one, two, or five Mac devices.

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Never lose what you copy

Keep your copy history, organize it, quickly find what you need and paste it directly to the active app.

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