A lightweight macOS menu bar app for browsing and copying your text snippets — the ones you've set up in System Settings → Keyboard → Text Replacements.
TextPeek sits in your menu bar and gives you instant access to all your text replacements. Search, browse, and click any snippet to copy it to your clipboard.
- Browse all your macOS text replacements in one place
- Search across snippets instantly
- Click to copy any expansion
- Resizable panel
TextPeek also includes a clipboard history manager that runs quietly in the background and keeps a searchable log of everything you've copied (last 7 days). This is off by default and can be enabled in Settings.
When enabled:
- Tracks clipboard history across all apps
- Lets you exclude specific apps (e.g. password managers)
- History is stored locally at
~/Clipboard/
- macOS 26 or later
- Your text replacements are set up in System Settings → Keyboard → Text Replacements
Download the latest .zip from Releases, unzip, and drag TextPeek.app to your Applications folder.
On first launch, macOS may show a security prompt — right-click the app and choose Open to bypass it.
- Clone the repo
- Open
TextPeek.xcodeprojin Xcode - Set your own Development Team in the project settings
- Build and run
TextPeek reads your text replacements directly from macOS system preferences. No data leaves your machine. Clipboard history (if enabled) is stored only at ~/Clipboard/ on your local disk.