Copy
Everything you copy,
one shortcut away.
Press ⇧⌘V and a shelf of everything you've copied slides up from the bottom of the screen. Search it, pin it, and paste it back with one keystroke.
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visual shelf, pinboards…
Your clipboard history, laid out like cards.
Every copy becomes a card the moment you make it. Text, images, links, files, and colors are all captured automatically, newest first and instantly searchable. No more losing what you copied two things ago.
Filter by app, type, and time. Then type.
Start typing and Copy suggests the app you copied from, the kind of thing, a time range, favorites, or a pinboard. Pick a few and they stack as filters. Whatever you type after searches the content, including text recognized inside images.
- Filter tokens: app, type, time, favorites, pinboards
- On-device OCR makes text inside images searchable
- Right-click a result → Show in History to jump back to it
Keep the good stuff. Paste in sequence.
Drag a card into a pinboard to keep it around, colour-coded and emoji-tagged. Building something repetitive? Queue several cards in the paste stack and walk through them on successive pastes.
- Pinboards with colours and any emoji
- Paste stack: a numbered queue, next item marked
- Switch boards with ⌘1 through ⌘9
A real editor, syntax colors, and more.
Copy is built for people who copy code, links, and text all day. Edit before you paste, see code the way you wrote it, and open links without leaving your flow.
Rich editing and code that looks like code.
Fix a card in place with bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough, and a live character, word, and line count. Copied source code is detected and syntax-highlighted right on the card, like Xcode.
- Rich text editor with a live stats footer
- On-device syntax highlighting for common languages
- Inline rename, two-click-to-paste, drag several out at once
Ship the visual shelf, then pinboards and the paste stack.
Everything is a keystroke away.
Summon the shelf, paste, edit, open, undo, and walk the paste stack without touching the mouse.
- ⇧⌘V open the shelf ⏎ paste ⌥⏎ paste plain
- ⌘R rename ⌘O open link/file ⌘Z undo
- ⇧⌘C paste stack 1–9 quick paste
struct Card {
let title: String
var count = 9
}
Your clipboard never leaves your Mac.
No account, no cloud sync, nothing phoned home. Copy is local-first and open source, so you can read exactly what it does.
Local first
Everything lives in a database on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, ever.
No telemetry
No analytics, no tracking, no network calls except checking for updates.
Works offline
No internet required. Copy runs entirely on your machine.
Passwords skipped
Items marked concealed by password managers are never captured.
Per-app rules
Exclude any app from history, and hide the shelf from screen sharing.
Open source
GPL-3.0. Read the code, build it yourself, or send a pull request.
On your Mac in a minute.
Homebrew
The quickest way if you already use Homebrew.
Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. On first launch, Copy asks for Accessibility access (to paste for you) and, on macOS 15.4+, pasteboard access. Summon it any time with ⇧⌘V.
Copy is yours to shape.
It is a real open-source project, not a demo. Star it, file the bug that has been bugging you, or open a pull request. Good first issues are labeled, and the whole app builds from source with Xcode.