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Your clipboard.
Yours alone.

A private clipboard history for macOS. Every copy is saved locally, previewed instantly, and always under your control.

100% on-device. Nothing ever leaves your Mac.

MADE FOR macOS

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ClipLocal β€” History
  • πŸ“Œgithub.com/arunofhyd/ClipLocal
  • β€’Meeting notes β€” Q3 roadmap…
  • β€’npm run build
  • β€’πŸ›‘οΈ (password skipped β€” not stored)
βœ“ Copied Meeting notes β€” Q3 roadmap…

Why use ClipLocal?

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100% On-Device

Your clipboard data never leaves your Mac. No cloud, no servers, no accounts, no analytics, no third parties.

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Skips Secrets

Copies from password managers are ignored by default, so passwords never land in your history.

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Your Choice of Storage

Session-only (wiped on quit) or Persistent β€” encrypted and readable only by your macOS account.

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Instant Preview

A subtle "βœ“ Copied" panel slides into the bottom-right and quietly fades away.

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Full Control

Pin, delete, and re-copy any item from the menu bar. One-click "Clear History Now" panic wipe.

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Quick Shortcuts

Open the menu and press ⌘1β€“βŒ˜9 to instantly copy any of your recent items.

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Smart Icons

Every item gets a relevant icon so your history is easy to scan β€” πŸ”— links, βœ‰οΈ emails, #️⃣ numbers, and πŸ“„ notes.

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Menu-Bar Native

Runs quietly with no Dock icon. Optional Launch at Login. Built with Swift β€” zero dependencies.

How it works

1

Copy anything

Use ⌘C like always. ClipLocal quietly captures it and flashes a "βœ“ Copied" preview in the corner.

2

Open your history

Click the clipboard icon in your menu bar to see everything you've copied β€” pin, delete, or re-copy in one click.

3

Choose your privacy

Switch between Session-only and encrypted Persistent mode anytime. Wipe everything instantly whenever you like.

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Say hello to ClipLocal

Most clipboard managers quietly log everything you copy β€” and many sync it to the cloud. That's fine, until you're copying passwords, tokens, private notes, or client data. ClipLocal was built on a single principle: your clipboard is yours, and it should never leave your Mac.

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Private by design, not as a setting

There's no account to create and no server to trust β€” because there isn't one. The only time ClipLocal touches the network is a quick version check for updates. Everything else stays on your machine.

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You decide how much it remembers

Flip to Session-only for sensitive work and history vanishes when you quit. Prefer convenience? Persistent mode keeps your history across restarts β€” encrypted, and readable only by your macOS account.

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Passwords stay out of it

Copies marked "concealed" by password managers are skipped automatically, so your secrets never end up in a history list. And a one-click panic wipe is always a click away.

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Light, quiet, and out of your way

ClipLocal lives in your menu bar with no Dock clutter, built natively in Swift with zero dependencies. Turn on Launch at Login and forget it's even there β€” until you need it.

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Installation

Install via Terminal

  1. Download the installer using the button above.
  2. Open Terminal (⌘+Space, type "Terminal", press Enter).
  3. Type sh β€” that's s, h, then a space.
  4. Drag and drop the downloaded file into the Terminal window (its path fills in automatically).
  5. Press Enter and follow the on-screen prompts, then drag ClipLocal onto Applications.
user@macbook ~ % sh ~/Downloads/install-cliplocal.command
β–Έ Checking for build tools…

First time only: the installer may ask to install Apple's Command Line Tools (a small official Apple download). This lets your Mac build the app locally β€” which is why macOS trusts it, with no "damaged app" warnings.

Release Notes

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