A bottom tray,
by default
A full‑width tray rises from the bottom of the screen, showing your clips as large preview cards you scan with ← →. Prefer a centred popup? It’s one setting away.
Everything you’ve copied, one keystroke away.
A full‑width tray rises from the bottom of the screen, showing your clips as large preview cards you scan with ← →. Prefer a centred popup? It’s one setting away.
Copy files in Finder and they land in your history. Paste drops the real files back, with a thumbnail for images. Plain text, rich text, and screenshots are all captured.
↵ pastes with the original styling; ⇧↵ pastes as plain text. Styled clips preview with their real bold, italics, and colour, so you know what you’re about to paste.
A quiet Liquid Glass popup with no branding header or toolbar, just start typing to filter by content or source app. A clean type scale and legible keyboard hints throughout.
History is stored encrypted on disk with AES‑256‑GCM, the key in your Keychain. Password managers are skipped automatically, any app can be excluded, and there’s no account and no telemetry.
⌘P pins the selected clip, ⌘⌫ removes it, all without the mouse. Set the hotkey to whatever you like, and hide the menu bar icon entirely if you’d rather not see it.
ClipHistory is based on the work of Weiyuan Kong, a genuinely lovely clipboard manager: fast, native, encrypted, no telemetry. This is a personal fork by Justin, a UK indie developer and product designer, that rearranges the furniture to suit my taste: a bottom‑tray mode, files alongside text and images, formatting on paste, and a quieter search‑first popup. Everything underneath: capture, encryption, search, exclusions, is the original’s, unchanged. The original project has the full story.