History that stacks up
Everything you copy lands in a local, searchable history — text, links, even screenshots with thumbnails. Newest first, duplicates collapse, one ⌥V away.
4.9 from early users · 100% on-device
Your clipboard,
finally useful.
Clipy keeps every last thing you copy — text, links, images — one ⌥V away. Snippets like ;email unfold into full text in any app. And new: type %fix and AI rewrites what you just wrote — without leaving the field free beta. Clipboard & snippets never leave your Mac. No subscription.
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No. 01 — features
Everything a clipboard should've done years ago
Built from one grudge: macOS copies exactly one thing at a time. Clipy fixes that — and then types your email for you.
Snippets that type themselves
Give a trigger like ;email and Clipy unfolds the full text in any app, in any field. [[Placeholders]] even send your cursor back to fill in the blanks.
Fuzzy search as you type
Can't remember when you copied it? Just start typing. Three-tier matching — full-text, substring, then fuzzy ranking — finds it in milliseconds. Pro adds type & pinned filters.
Private by design
History lives in a local SQLite file. No analytics, no telemetry, no account. Password fields and "concealed" pasteboards are skipped automatically — and AI only runs when you type a command.
AI transforms free beta
Type %fix, %expand, %humanize or %shorten in any field and Clipy rewrites what you just wrote — inline, in a couple of seconds. Strictly opt-in: text only travels when you ask.
Featherweight & focus-shy
Menu-bar only, no Dock icon, under 50 MB idle, zero CPU at rest — and the popup never steals focus from what you're doing.
No. 02 — how it works
Three steps. Zero friction.
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Copy like you always do
⌘C anywhere. Clipy files it away silently — no windows, no nagging, no Dock icon.
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Press ⌥V
A quick popup fades in right where you are, search already focused. It never steals focus from your app.
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Click. Pasted.
One click (or ↵) pastes into the app you came from, and the popup vanishes like it was never there.
No. 03 — try it
Poke it. Right here.
Three of Clipy's tricks, recreated in your browser. No install required — the real thing is faster.
The ⌥V popup
Press ⌥V (or the button) to toggle. Type to filter, hover a row and hit ✕ to delete, click away to dismiss — all real Clipy behaviors.
Nothing copied yet — copy something to get started
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The snippet engine
A perfectly ordinary text field. Type ;email, ;addr, ;sig, ;thanks or ;intro, then a space — or just tap a tag below.
Expansion log: waiting…
AI transforms free beta
In the app you'd type %fix, %expand, %humanize or %shorten right inside the field you're editing. Try it here — the text is canned for the demo, the wait is real (that's the honest part).
Run a command above to see the rewrite…
No. 04 — reviews
The wall of love
Notes from the beta crew — lightly edited, heavily used.
★★★★★
I stopped keeping a "frequently pasted" TextEdit file the day I installed Clipy. ;sig alone is worth it.
★★★★★
⌥V is muscle memory now. It's the first thing I install on a new Mac, before my dotfiles.
★★★★★
Our team pastes the same answers fifty times a day. Snippets cut that to two keystrokes and a space.
★★★★★
Fast, local, and it doesn't want my email address. Refreshing — and the fuzzy search is sneaky good.
★★★★★
It found a citation I copied three days ago before I finished typing it. Witchcraft, but polite.
★★★★★
Lightest clipboard manager I've tried — my fans can't tell it's running. And 100 items free is plenty honest.
No. 05 — pricing
One price. Yours.
Free is forever. Pro is one-time — no subscription, ever.
Free
$0 forever
- Last 6 hours of history (100-item cap)
- 5 snippets with
[[placeholders]] - ⌥V popup, fuzzy search & keyboard nav
- Image clipboard & thumbnails
- AI transforms — 5 per week (beta)
- Date & time paste, Smart Clips
Pro
$3.99 once
- Unlimited history — kept forever
- Unlimited snippets
- Pin items to the top ★
- Advanced filters — type & pinned
- AI transforms — 50 per day
- Custom AI trigger words
- Offline license key — no account needed
Pro is a one-time purchase with an offline license — no subscription, no account. AI transforms are in free beta while we tune quality; quotas may change. Free never will.
No. 06 — faq
Asked, answered.
Is Clipy really free?
Yes — the free tier is a fully working clipboard manager: the last 6 hours of history (up to 100 items), 5 snippets, image clipboard, and 5 AI transforms a week during the beta. Pro simply removes the limits.
Is the AI part private?
Clipboard history and snippets never leave your Mac — that's the core of Clipy and it works fully offline. AI transforms are the one deliberate exception, and only when you type a % command: the text of that field is sent to Clipy's backend to be rewritten, never stored, never used for training, and password fields are always skipped. You'll see a one-time consent screen before first use.
What do the AI commands actually do?
%fix corrects grammar and spelling, %expand fleshes out a draft, %humanize makes it sound like a person wrote it, and %shorten tightens it. Each takes a couple of seconds and happens right in the field. Free includes 5 per week during beta; Pro includes 50 per day.
Why does my old history disappear?
Free keeps the last 6 hours (max 100 items) so the tool stays lightweight and private by default. Pro keeps everything forever — and even then, you can set your own auto-delete window if you like.
Why does Clipy ask for Accessibility permission?
To detect your global shortcut and expand snippets system-wide, macOS requires Accessibility access. Clipy uses it only for those two things — no network, no analytics, nothing else.
Where is my clipboard history stored?
In a local SQLite database at ~/Library/Application Support/Clipy/clipy.db. Nothing syncs, nothing uploads. Delete the file and it's gone.
Does it work on my Mac?
macOS 13 Ventura or later, Apple Silicon and Intel. The whole app is about 9 MB.
Can I change the shortcut?
Yes — Preferences → General has a shortcut recorder. ⌥V is just the default; remap it live, no restart needed.
Do snippets fire in password fields?
Never. Expansion is suppressed in secure fields, and pasteboard items marked "concealed" or "transient" are never stored.
How do I uninstall?
Quit from the menu-bar icon and drag Clipy to the Trash. Delete the database file too if you want — that's everything there ever was.
Ready to give your ⌘C a memory?
Download Clipy free. Copy something. Press ⌥V. That's the whole tutorial.
Download for Mac — Freev1.6AI transforms beta — %fix, %expand, %humanize, %shorten
v1.5pinning, advanced filters, Date & Time paste, Smart Clips
v1.4popup polish & per-row ✕ delete