Copy
A visual shelf for
everything you copy.
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.
- New in 0.4.0
- Split lists into Paste Stack entries
- Choose a separator or regex
- Get separator suggestions from Apple Intelligence
- Read the changelog
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 and choose Show in History to jump back to it
Keep the good stuff. Paste in sequence.
Drag a card toward the tabs and a small callout names the pinboard it will land in. Drop it, and the board opens with the card filed. Building something repetitive? Queue several cards in the paste stack and walk through them on successive pastes.
- Pinboards with colors and any emoji; drag tabs to reorder them
- Favorites keep starred cards at the front, or switch them off
- Paste stack: a numbered queue, next item marked
Your shelf, your way.
Pick the look that fits your desk. Every choice lives under Settings, General, and the shelf changes on the spot.
Light, dark, or follow the system
The dark shelf uses Copy's electric blue and dims the glass, so cards stay readable over bright windows.
Attached to the edge, or floating
Edge attached is the default. Floating lifts the shelf off the bottom with space around it and rounds every corner.
Standard or compact cards
Compact fits more cards at a glance on a laptop screen. Standard gives each card room for a longer preview.
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, and Apple Writing Tools on macOS 15
- 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.
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It feels like part of the Mac.
Copy is a native app, not a web view. The shelf is Liquid Glass on macOS 26 with a solid fallback before that, and the trackpad answers what you do.
- Haptic feedback: a light tap when a dragged card reaches a board or you switch tabs, a firmer click when it is filed. Optional.
- Drag a rectangle across cards to select several at once, just like in Finder
- Everything is a keystroke away, from summon to paste to undo
- Shortcuts actions to paste your latest item, search, or paste from a pinboard
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 and, if you keep it on, link previews.
- Works offline
- No internet required. Copy runs entirely on your machine.
- Passwords and secrets
- Items marked concealed by password managers are never captured. API keys, tokens, and card numbers you copy stay masked until you reveal them.
- Per-app rules
- Exclude any app from history, and hide the shelf from screen sharing. Private system apps are excluded by default.
- 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.