Clipwell

Open source, MIT

A small, native clipboard history for macOS and Windows. Free, MIT licensed, and one Homebrew command away.

⌘⇧V brings the bar up, and the arrow keys move the selection, here from a copied command to a link. The items in the bar were staged for the recording.

licence: MIT
network calls: 0
kinds of clip: text, link, image, file: 4
tests in the Windows core: 54

Written twice

The same bar, the same cards, the same keys and the same history format, implemented natively on both platforms rather than once in Electron. No account and no subscription.

Two columns, macOS and Windows, drawn identically on either side of one line: the same bar of six cards, the same four kinds of card (text, link, image and file), the same arrow keys, and the same history of six records.

the same bar

the same cards

the same keys

Left arrowRight arrow

the same history format

A schematic, not a screenshot. The arrow keys in it work, and move both sides at once.

Installing it is one Homebrew command. That meant shipping a cask, a release pipeline and a product site alongside the app itself.

brew install --cask romanprigodskii/tap/clipwell

The product site Source on GitHub

romanprigodskii.github.io/clipwell

The Clipwell product site I built, recorded in Chrome.

Passwords stay out

Content that a password manager marks as concealed or transient is never written to disk, so copied passwords do not end up in the history.

A schematic: four things copied in turn, one of them marked concealed by a password manager.