Fixes and improvements
- Fixed crash after Mac comes back from sleep.
- Fixed an issue with resetting the Show more actions keyboard shortcut.
- Remove black background when displaying the commands popup.
- Force the commands popup always fit the history window size.
- Fixed wrong app icon offset comparing to other macOS app icons.
- Fixed an issue when the preffered window location setting is ignored and the clipboard history window is always displayed at the last location on the active screen.
And one more little improvement... You can now check for updates right in the Settings window.
UX improvements and fixes
The Actions menu is now displayed as a popup. It allows you to see all available commands for the selected item/items in your clipboard history or quickly search for the command you want to perform.
The default keyboard shortcut to open the Commands popup is ⌘K. You can change it in Settings -> Shortcuts.
Fixes and improvements
- The Save Image as File... command has been added to the Commands popup.
- Fixed crash when copy an empty CSS color.
- Fixed URL address wrapping in Details.
- Display the "Return" symbol in the history list if the text item contains "/n".
- Fixed bug when ⌘A doesn't work in the search field.
Save image as PNG file
This update brings the ability to save images from the clipboard history as PNG files and adds a new setting that allows you to skip the clipboard history update after you paste of copy an item in the clipboard history.
Advanced link and color preview
ClipBook can now download and display the link details such as title, description, and image in the Preview panel. ClipBook will fetch and cache the link preview when you select the link in the clipboard history.
You can open the link in the internal web browser to view the web page content. It's useful when you want to verify the link content before pasting it.
When the link points to a web page that requires authentication, you can open the link in the internal web browser and log in to let ClipBook to load the link title, description, and image.
You can also preview color and get its name in the Name That Color (NTC) format.
Choose clipboard history window location
ClipBook now supports 6 locations where you can open the clipboard history window. You can choose one of the following locations:
- Last location on the active screen (default).
- Center of the active screen.
- Center of the active window.
- Screen with mouse pointer.
- Mouse pointer location.
- Text caret location.
To select the preferrable window location, go to ClipBook Settings -> General, and select the Open window at option.
Paste multiple items at once
You can now paste multiple items from the clipboard history at once. The items will be pasted in the order they were selected.
You can configure ClipBook to do additional action after pasting each item. ClipBook can press ↵, ⇥, or do nothing after pasting each item.
With the multiple selection feature, you can also:
- Delete the selected items.
- Add/remove the selected items from the favorites.
- If the selected items are text items such as text, link, email, you can merge them into a single text item.
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed empty Welcome window.
- Fixed native crash when open Settings -> Privacy and close the Settings dialog.
Quick paste and advanced clear history
You can now paste any of the first 9 items from the clipboard history using predefined keyboard shortcuts and configure when the entire history should be cleared.
Keep favorites when clear entire history
ClipBook now doesn't remove the items marked as favorites when you clear the entire clipboard history. You can change this behavior in Settings -> History.
Fixes and improvements
- Fix broken image thumbnail when copy image in Safari when image is a link.
- Fix 🐞 when copy and merge appends content to the first favorite item instead of the latest non-favorite item.
Copy and merge
You can now copy text in any macOS app and automatically append it to the previous item in the clipboard history. This feature is useful when you want to copy multiple text items and paste them all at once.
Fixes and improvements
- Fix bug when image copied from Safari is stored in the history as image URL.
- Fix bug when copied files are stored in the history as images.
Images support
ClipBook now remembers all images you copy to the clipboard. You can view them in the clipboard history, preview, copy, and paste image directly to the active app.
You can search for text in images. If the image contains text, you can copy the text to the clipboard.
Fixes and improvements
- Fix the show/hide preview icon in the actions menu.
- Fix the height of the actions menu popup to fit number of menu items.
- Fix 🐞 when adding CapCut to the list of ignored apps leads to crash.
- Toolitps are displayed quickly and now contains the action keyboard shortcut.
- The details pane now displays only necessary history item details.
- The details pane is now displayed by default.
Three hotkeys to close app window
There are three popular keyboard shortcuts you usually use to close different application windows on macOS:
- Spotlight window you can close using Esc.
- The Finder or Safari windows you close by pressing ⌘W.
- The Raycast or Alfred windows you can close using the same shortcut you use to open it.
ClipBook now supports three keyboard shortcuts to close the app window.
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed 🐞 when ClipBook displays a window with error message after Mac restart with enabled "Reopen windows when logging back in" option. It used to happen when ClipBook was added to the list of apps to open at login. The window with the error message is not displayed anymore.
- Fixed 🐞 when it's impossible to set the keyboard shortcut that includes the ⌥ key, for example ⌥V. Now you can set such shortcuts.
Open Settings from Actions
Users who hide the app icon from the menu bar very often do not know how to access the settings anymore. I added a new item to the Actions menu to make it easier to access the settings right from the clipboard history window.
Alternatively, to open the settings you can press ⌘, when the clipboard history window is open.
🐞 Fixes
This update also addresses the issue when the clipboard history window position and size is not properly restored when you remove an external display and add it back.
💎 History item details and favorite items
I continue adding the features you requested and voted for on the Roadmap page. Thank you for your feedback and the feature requests! It helps me to improve ClipBook and make your copy/paste experience more efficient and enjoyable.
This update includes the following new features and improvements:
- View history item details such as the source app the content was copied from, content type, the number of copies, and more.
- Mark frequently used items as favorites for quick access.
- New toolbar in the preview panel for easy access to item-specific actions.
- Dropdown menu with actions for the selected item in the clipboard history.
- Email addresses identification.
🐞 Fixes and UI/UX enhancements
- Skip clipboard text content if it's empty or contains only whitespace characters.
- Use a different background color for the Actions popup to make it more distinguishable from the rest of UI.
- Force the search bar to always has focus, so you can start searching right away.
- Remove the Close button from the actions pane at the bottom because it's pretty obvious how to close the window.
- Fix minor UI layout issues in the search bar.
🐞 Fixes and improvements
This patch fixes an error when searching something that doesn't exist in the clipboard history. The only known workaround to recover from this issue was to restart ClipBook.
💎 Ignore applications and preview colors
ClipBooks is getting better and better with every update. This update brings the most requested features to make your experience even better. You can now configure which apps should be ignored when copying. If you copy a text that represents an HTML color in different formats, it will be displayed as a color preview in the clipboard history. You can now hide the app icon from the menu bar.
In the previous versions, ClipBook would check for accessibility access and ask you to grant it only when you run the app for the first time. Now, it will also check for accessibility access when you paste content directly to other applications. If the app doesn't have the required access, it will prompt you to grant it.
💎 Highlighted search matches
This update includes new features and improvements to make ClipBook even better. The search matches are now highlighted in the clipboard history. You can now pause/resume ClipBook to prevent it from capturing the clipboard content. You can copy selected item to clipboard, open the link in default system browser. When you paste content to other applications, ClipBook will now clear your search query. In the settings you can configure ClipBook to automatically check for updates.
🐞 Fixes and improvements
- Fixed the issue when the app doesn't scroll the clipboard history to the currently selected item.
- Fixed broken scrolling when navigating through the clipboard history using the keyboard.