Clips
Everything you copied, still there when you need it.
Clips keeps a history of what you copy and puts it in the menu bar. Find an earlier item and paste it again without going back to where it came from.
- Version
- to be confirmed
- Released
- to be confirmed
- Size
- to be confirmed
- Requires
- to be confirmed
- Runs on
- to be confirmed
- SHA-256
- to be confirmed
Illustration. A screenshot will replace it with the first release.
Features
What Clips does.
Clipboard history
Text, links and other copied items are saved in order, newest first.
Search
Type a few letters to find something you copied earlier.
Menu bar access
Open the history from the menu bar or with a keyboard shortcut.
Stays on your Mac
History is stored locally on your Mac.
Options
Settings you can change, and the permissions the app asks for.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| History length | How many items Clips keeps before dropping the oldest. |
| Keyboard shortcut | The key combination that opens the history. |
| Launch at login | Start Clips automatically when you sign in. |
| Clear history | Erase everything Clips has saved. |
| Check for updates | Turn automatic update checks on or off. |
| Permission | Why it is needed |
|---|---|
| Clipboard access | Clips reads the clipboard to build its history. Recent macOS versions may ask you to allow this. |
Documentation
Install, update, remove and fix.
Install
- Download Clips from this page.
- Open the DMG file from your Downloads folder.
- Drag Clips into the Applications folder.
- Open Clips from Applications. The first time, macOS asks you to confirm that you want to open an app downloaded from the internet.
Update
- Clips checks this site for new versions and offers to install them.
- To update by hand, download the latest DMG here and drag the app into Applications again, replacing the old copy.
Uninstall
- Quit Clips.
- Drag Clips from Applications to the Trash.
If macOS will not open it
- Check that the download finished and the checksum matches the one in the download box above.
- Download the file again directly from this page. Copies from other sites are not supported.
- Still blocked? Send the exact message macOS shows to [email protected].
Security testing
What was checked on this build, the result, and how to repeat it.
Results will be posted with the first public build.
- Build
- to be confirmed
- Tested on
- to be confirmed
- macOS
- to be confirmed
Developer ID signature
The app is signed by its developer and has not been altered since.
Apple notarization
Apple scanned this build for malware and approved it.
Notarization ticket stapled
The approval travels with the download, so it opens on a Mac that is offline.
Hardened runtime
macOS blocks code injection and other tampering while the app runs.
Entitlements review
The special permissions built into the app are limited to what it needs.
Download checksum
The file you downloaded is byte-for-byte the one published here.
Independent malware scan
The download was checked by third-party antivirus engines.
Network activity
Outbound connections were watched during testing and listed in full.
Each command can be pasted into Terminal to repeat the check on your own copy.
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