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Clipwell keeps your clipboard history. Press ⌘⇧V — Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows — and the last few hundred things you copied slide up from the bottom of the screen: text, links, images, files. Pick one and it pastes straight back into whatever you were doing.
Native Swift and SwiftUI. It sits in the menu bar, weighs about a megabyte, and does one job.
⌘⇧V opens the bar over whatever app you're in — including full-screen apps and browsers.
Start typing and the history filters instantly: contents, custom names, file paths, even the app it came from.
Enter drops the item into the app you came from. Shift+Enter pastes as plain text, stripping the formatting.
Arrow to an entry and hit ⌫ — gone. Keep pressing to clear a run of them. While you're typing a query, ⌫ edits the query instead.
Pin the snippets you reuse to keep them at the front, give them readable names, and edit their text in place.
Content marked concealed or transient — 1Password, Bitwarden, Keychain — is never captured or written to disk.
Images, files, links and colors get their own cards with thumbnails, source app icons and timestamps. Space for a full preview.
Keep history for a day, a week, or forever, and cap how many items are stored. Old entries prune themselves.
The interface follows your system language. No other strings, no ads, no upsell screens.
The bar is built to be driven without the mouse — though clicking works everywhere too. On Windows every ⌘ below is Ctrl, and the bar opens with Ctrl+Shift+V.
| ⌘⇧V | Open or close the bar |
| ← → | Move between cards |
| Enter | Paste the highlighted item |
| Shift+Enter | Paste as plain text |
| ⌫ | Delete the highlighted item |
| ⌘+⌫ | Delete even while searching |
| Space | Full-size preview |
| ⌘1…⌘9 | Paste by position |
| Esc | Clear the search, then close |
| ⌘C | Copy to the clipboard without pasting |
| ⌘E | Edit the item's text |
| ⌘R | Rename the item |
| ⌘N | New text item |
| ⌘, | Settings |
All free. Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or newer, or Windows 10 (1809+) or 11.
Nothing to click, nothing to drag.
brew install --cask romanprigodskii/tap/clipwellUpdate later with brew upgrade --cask clipwell, remove it with brew uninstall --cask clipwell.
Nothing to install, no administrator rights.
On an ARM machine take Clipwell-win-arm64.zip instead. Automatic pasting needs no permission on Windows, and there is a switch for it in Settings.
Clipwell has no server, no account and no analytics. History lives in ~/Library/Application Support/Clipwell/ — or %APPDATA%\Clipwell on Windows — and goes nowhere else. There is no sync, and that's deliberate: the fastest way to keep clipboard data private is not to move it.
Yes — MIT licensed, no paid tier, no trial. Source and releases are on GitHub.
No. Everything stays on the machine you copied it on — there is no server to sync through, and the macOS and Windows builds don't talk to each other. macOS Universal Clipboard and Windows' own Win+V history keep working alongside it as usual.
No. Password managers mark what they put on the clipboard as concealed or transient, and Clipwell skips those items entirely — they never reach memory or disk.
Yes — the same app, written in C# and WPF, with Ctrl+Shift+V instead of ⌘⇧V and the same cards, keys and history format. Download it here, or read how it is put together.
Only to press ⌘V for you in the app you were working in. Deny it and everything else still works — the item lands on the clipboard and you paste it yourself. On Windows nothing has to be granted at all, and pasting for you can be switched off in Settings.
200 items by default, kept for a week — both adjustable in Settings, up to 2000 items and "keep forever". Pinned items are never pruned.
Quit from the menu bar icon, drag Clipwell.app to the Trash, and delete ~/Library/Application Support/Clipwell if you want the history gone too. Homebrew users: brew uninstall --cask clipwell. On Windows: quit from the notification-area icon, delete Clipwell.exe, and delete %APPDATA%\Clipwell.
No. The first launch after the rename moves the old ~/Library/Application Support/Paste folder across, keeping every item and setting.
Or one download. Uninstalling is just as quick if it isn't for you.