Private clipboard history for macOS

Your clipboard,
with a memory.

Clipz quietly remembers everything you copy — text, images, screenshots, files, and video — and makes it instantly searchable on your Mac. Even the text inside a video.

⌘⇧V  quick-paste anywhere · free · open source · 100% on-device

Features

Everything you copy, finally findable.

Clipz reads your clips so you can search by what's in them — not just remember where you put them.

01

On-device AI search

Apple Vision reads the text inside images, PDFs, and video frames and tags what it sees — so a screenshot is as searchable as a note. Nothing is ever uploaded.

02

Search inside video

Find a phrase from a screen recording and Clipz seeks the player straight to the frame.

03

⌘⇧V quick-paste

A Spotlight-style panel at your cursor. Type, arrow down, hit return — it pastes where you were.

04

Touch ID lock

Optionally require Touch ID before your clipboard is shown — window, menu bar, and ⌘⇧V.

05

Passwords, protected

Secrets from password managers are auto-detected, blurred, and gated behind Touch ID.

06

Private by design

No cloud, no accounts, no tracking, no telemetry. Everything lives in a sandboxed folder on your Mac — and encrypted backups are a click away.

How it works

Three steps. No new habits.

i.

Copy as usual

Clipz captures text, images, screenshots, files, and video in the background — with the app each came from.

ii.

It understands

On-device Vision reads text in images, PDFs, and video frames, so every clip becomes searchable.

iii.

Paste anywhere

Press ⌘⇧V, find the clip, press return — it pastes right where your cursor is.

Free, forever —
and yours to inspect.

Clipz is free and open source under the GPLv3. No price, no trial, no accounts. Read every line, build it yourself, or contribute on GitHub.

GPLv3macOS 14+Apple silicon & IntelNotarizedNo telemetry

Contact

Questions? Say hello.

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