encore 0.6.1

Clear your history in two clicks, and keep passwords copied from a browser out of it.

• Copies cleared by their app are forgotten. Password managers can clear the clipboard a while after you copy a password. encore now removes that copy from its history too. This covers browser extensions, which copy as the browser and cannot be excluded on their own. With Bitwarden in Firefox or Chrome: open the extension, go to Settings → Options → Clear clipboard, and pick a delay, from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. On by default, in Settings → Privacy → Passwords and secrets.
• Secret detection, off by default. Turn on "Detect passwords, keys and card numbers" and copies that look like passwords, API keys, tokens, private keys or card numbers are masked on their card, showing only their first characters, and deleted after the delay you choose, from 30 seconds to an hour. Pasting them still works, and they are never shared with your other Macs. Detection is a guess: an ordinary copy, like a code identifier, can be taken for a secret, and a secret can be missed.
• Clear the history from anywhere. From the menu bar icon, from Settings → Data, or with open encore://clear-history in Terminal, without quitting encore. Choose to keep your favorites, snippets and collections, or to clear everything.
• Cards dissolve when they disappear. Deleted or expired cards turn to dust while their neighbors slide into place, in the shelf, the library and the compact window. With macOS Reduce Motion enabled, a short fade replaces the particles. If the selected card expires, selection stays beside it.
• Ko-fi, and a first goal. Next to GitHub Sponsors, you can now support encore on Ko-fi, by card or PayPal, without an account. The first goal is Apple's developer account, $99 a year: encore could then be notarized and install without the "Open Anyway" step, and come to the Mac App Store as an extra option, simpler to install, but sandboxed and slower to update, since Apple reviews each version. The GitHub version would stay the main one.
• The settings sidebar shows the version you use and the latest one available, checked each time Settings open, with an Update button when there is one. It also offers a star on GitHub, and support on GitHub Sponsors or Ko-fi.
• Section names and cards no longer get cut off in any of the 30 languages.

Download the ZIP, unzip, and move Encore.app to Applications. SHA256SUMS contains its checksum. Installed copies update themselves.

encore is not notarized yet. Apple's first-launch instructions. History is unencrypted; files are references; embedded payloads are limited to 25 MiB.

encore 0.6.0

A compact window, your own shortcut, and updates that arrive on their own.

• Compact window. Prefer something smaller than the shelf? A narrow panel of your latest copies, wherever you put it: it is drawn to the corners, the middle of each edge and the center, and opens at the same spot next time, even on another screen. Choose 3 to 10 copies, scroll with the arrows, and press ↑ on the first one to open the library. Switch from the footer or in Settings.
• Your own shortcut. Click it in Settings and type any combination. encore refuses those that would break your apps, like ⌘V alone, and ⌃⌥⌘V always works as a fallback.
• System sounds. The custom sound set can use the sounds that come with macOS.
• Updates that arrive. encore now checks every hour and, by default, installs an update as soon as none of its windows is open, then relaunches. Copies older than 0.6 still find this one on their old daily schedule.
• ⌘← ⌘→ to switch boards is shown in the shelf and in Settings.
• The first letter typed into the search is no longer lost, and the volume slider is no longer cut off in Settings.
• A link to support encore on GitHub Sponsors, in Settings and in About.

Download the ZIP, unzip, and move Encore.app to Applications. SHA256SUMS contains its checksum. Installed copies update themselves.

encore is not notarized yet. Apple's first-launch instructions. History is unencrypted; files are references; embedded payloads are limited to 25 MiB.

encore 0.5.0

Snippets, and favorites that follow you from Mac to Mac.

• Snippets. Press ⌘S on any card to give it a name, a language and tags. encore guesses the language among 85, with the icons you know from VS Code. Snippets get their own board and never expire.
• Placeholders. {{name}} asks for a value before pasting; {{clipboard}}, {{date}} and {{cursor}} fill in by themselves. Search snippets with tag: and lang:, and export or import them as a readable JSON file.
• Rename in place. ⌘R, or a click on a card's header, renames it right on the card.
• Paste or copy. A switch in the footer, also in Settings, chooses what Return and double-click do. In copy mode, the card goes back to the top, ready for ⌘V.
• Sync with your paired Macs. Favorites and snippets each have their own setting. They are merged, then kept in step over the local network: the latest change wins, and removals follow. Your history stays private unless you share it.
• Updates are always checked; the setting now chooses whether they install on their own.
• Settings for paired Macs are shorter and clearer, and the About window is centered.

Sync needs encore 0.5 on both Macs.

Download the ZIP, unzip, and move Encore.app to Applications. SHA256SUMS contains its checksum. Installed copies update themselves.

encore is not notarized yet. Apple's first-launch instructions. History is unencrypted; files are references; embedded payloads are limited to 25 MiB.

encore 0.4.3

Native clipboard history for macOS 12+, now on Apple Silicon and Intel.

• Intel Macs are supported: encore ships as a single universal app.
• encore now runs on macOS 12 Monterey and 13 Ventura. Launch at login and Share need macOS 13.
• Fixed a freeze when a rich-text email with tables was shown on a card.
• The Space preview is larger and scrolls through long content.
• Preview & edit shows rich text as laid out; Edit switches to plain text.
• Paired Macs no longer ask for your login password after each update, and the app no longer freezes waiting for it: pairing keys moved from the Keychain to a private file. Existing pairings move over automatically, after one last prompt.
• Arrow keys, the shelf and the library stay smooth on older Macs: a card now redraws only when it changes.
• Holding an arrow key in the library keeps the selected card in view, and the first row no longer slides under the day title on opening.
• Each opening of the shelf starts on the history.
• The app name is now written encore everywhere.

Download the ZIP, unzip, and move Encore.app to Applications. SHA256SUMS contains its checksum. Installed copies update themselves.

encore is not notarized yet. Apple's first-launch instructions. History is unencrypted; files are references; embedded payloads are limited to 25 MiB.

encore 0.4.2

Native clipboard history for macOS 14+, Apple Silicon.

• Library day titles no longer show as a grey band on light backgrounds: cards now fade out beneath the current day.
• The storage usage is centered under its bar.

Download the ZIP, unzip, and move Encore.app to Applications. SHA256SUMS contains its checksum. Installed copies update themselves.

Encore is not notarized yet. Apple's first-launch instructions. History is unencrypted; files are references; embedded payloads are limited to 25 MiB.

encore 0.4.1

Native clipboard history for macOS 14+, Apple Silicon.

• Deleting a card now takes ⌘⌫: a lone ⌫ no longer removes anything by accident.
• A right click on card text opens Encore's menu, now with its shortcuts, instead of the text menu.
• In the library, the keyboard cursor always stays in view, up and down, across days.
• Day headers in the library no longer overlap the cards scrolling beneath them.
• Day labels in the shelf sit at the bottom of their column.
• The selected card stands out more clearly.
• The bottom bar lists the shortcuts to search, favorite and delete.

Download the ZIP, unzip, and move Encore.app to Applications. SHA256SUMS contains its checksum. Installed copies update themselves.

Encore is not notarized yet. Apple's first-launch instructions. History is unencrypted; files are references; embedded payloads are limited to 25 MiB.

encore 0.4.0

Native clipboard history for macOS 14+, Apple Silicon.

• A redesigned shelf that grows into the full library: press ↑ to explore, hold ↓ to come back.
• Space opens a floating preview above the selected card.
• Browse and paste the recent history of your other Macs, paired with a code and end-to-end encrypted.
• Encore now updates itself from GitHub releases.
• A stable signature: Accessibility stays allowed from one update to the next.
• 30 languages, with plurals, local formats and right-to-left layouts.
• Six new sound sets, Paper by default, with instant previews in Settings.
• Every card shows the time left before it expires.
• A polished app icon and a menu bar icon drawn from it.
• A warning in the shelf, and at the top of Settings, when direct paste is not allowed.

Download the ZIP, unzip, and move Encore.app to Applications. SHA256SUMS contains its checksum.

Coming from 0.3.0: turn Encore off and on once in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility, or remove it and add it again. Later updates keep the permission.

Encore is not notarized yet. Apple's first-launch instructions. History is unencrypted; files are references; embedded payloads are limited to 25 MiB.

encore 0.3.0

Native clipboard history for macOS 14+. Apple Silicon pre-release.

• A full library view with search, filters, and preview: ↑ to expand, ↓ to reduce.
• Larger app icons, smaller card headers, capture age above and expiry below.
• French and English, selectable in Settings.
• Short UI sounds from Kenney's CC0 pack, plus custom audio.
• Exclusions that reflect installed apps and detect new installations.
• Explicit retention presets covering 500 MB–3 GB.
• Continuous volume/card-size controls and clearer Accessibility status.

Download the ZIP, unzip, and move Encore.app to Applications. SHA256SUMS contains its checksum.

This build is ad-hoc signed, not notarized. Apple's first-launch instructions. Updating may require re-enabling Encore in Accessibility. History is unencrypted; files are references; embedded payloads are limited to 25 MiB.

encore 0.2.1

A native, local clipboard shelf for macOS 14+. Early Apple Silicon pre-release.

Download Encore-0.2.1-macOS-arm64.zip, unzip, and move Encore.app to Applications. No build tools are required. SHA256SUMS contains the archive checksum.

• Fix Finder file-reference URLs so existing image/PDF history gets real thumbnails, resolved filenames and logical sizes.
• Native image and PDF thumbnails, rich text cards, clearer keyboard hints and settings.
• Ordered size/type retention rules, explicit first/last-copy timestamps, expiry preview before applying rules.
• Configurable capture/paste sounds, custom files and volume.
• Current, primary, or fixed display placement.
• Opt-in import of new saved macOS screenshots through Spotlight metadata.
• Screen-coordinate resizing and explicit Up/Down navigation.
• Clipboard origin handling across app switches, including explicit source markers.
• Cached previews, an event tap that stops with the queue, and previous-index recovery.

This build is ad-hoc signed, not notarized. Follow Apple's Open Anyway instructions if Gatekeeper blocks the first launch. Grant Accessibility only after placing the app in its final location. Replacing an ad-hoc build can require granting that permission again.

Embedded clipboard payloads are limited to 25 MiB. Large files are kept as references. Storage is unencrypted. Saved screenshot import depends on Spotlight. No automatic updates, Intel binary, Homebrew package, or sync yet.

See validation and feature status for verified behavior and remaining work.

encore 0.2.0

A native, local clipboard shelf for macOS 14+. Early Apple Silicon pre-release.

Download Encore-0.2.0-macOS-arm64.zip, unzip, and move Encore.app to Applications. No build tools are required. SHA256SUMS contains the archive checksum.

• Native image and PDF thumbnails, rich text cards, clearer keyboard hints and settings.
• Ordered size/type retention rules, explicit first/last-copy timestamps, expiry preview before applying rules.
• Configurable capture/paste sounds, custom files and volume.
• Current, primary, or fixed display placement.
• Opt-in import of new saved macOS screenshots through Spotlight metadata.
• Screen-coordinate resizing and explicit Up/Down navigation.
• Clipboard origin handling across app switches, including explicit source markers.
• Cached previews, an event tap that stops with the queue, and previous-index recovery.

This build is ad-hoc signed, not notarized. Follow Apple's Open Anyway instructions if Gatekeeper blocks the first launch. Grant Accessibility only after placing the app in its final location. Replacing an ad-hoc build can require granting that permission again.

Embedded clipboard payloads are limited to 25 MiB. Large files are kept as references. Storage is unencrypted. Saved screenshot import depends on Spotlight. No automatic updates, Intel binary, Homebrew package, or sync yet.

See validation and feature status for verified behavior and remaining work.