A lightweight, modern clipboard history manager for macOS. Lives in your menu bar, remembers everything you copy — text, images, files, URLs — and pastes it back with a keystroke.
Built in SwiftUI for macOS 14+. Free and open-source. A successor in spirit to CopyClip and CopyClip 2 — but one that doesn't fall over.
- 📋 Tracks text, rich text, images, file references (videos, PDFs, anything), and URLs.
- 🔍 Searchable popover that follows your light/dark system theme.
- ⌨️ Global hotkey (default
⌃Space) — leaves⇧⌘Vfree for editor paste-and-match. - 🔢 Configurable history size (default 10, up to 200).
- 📌 Pin items so they survive eviction.
- ✂️ Smart-trim on paste: multi-line shell snippets (backslash continuations,
$/#prompts, box-drawing gutters) are flattened to a single runnable line — but only when pasting into a terminal. Markdown, prose, YAML/JSON, and code stay intact. Hold⌥to paste raw. - 📥 Markdown-aware terminal paste: pulls commands out of ``` fences and de-indents text quoted under a chat bullet, so copying an LLM reply with surrounding prose still pastes a clean runnable command.
- 🧊 Lives in the menu bar only — no Dock icon, minimal CPU.
- 🎨 Native macOS look across light/dark and accent colors.
brew install --cask edihasaj/tap/klypgit clone https://github.com/edihasaj/klyp.git
cd klyp/macos/KlypApp
xcodegen
xcodebuild -scheme Klyp -configuration Release \
-derivedDataPath build CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY=- CODE_SIGN_STYLE=Manual
open build/Build/Products/Release/Klyp.appOn first paste-back, macOS will ask for Accessibility permission so Klyp
can synthesize ⌘V into the focused app. Grant it under
System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.
Klyp does not phone home. History stays on your machine in
~/Library/Application Support/Klyp/.
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Toggle Klyp popover | ⌃Space |
| Paste item N (in popover) | ⌘1–9 |
| Search | type any letter |
| Clear history | ⌘⌫ |
| Pin/unpin selected | ⌘P |
- Excluded apps (skip 1Password, etc.)
- Sync across Macs (CloudKit, opt-in)
- Smart paste (strip formatting on
⌥modifier) - Notarized + signed release builds
See CONTRIBUTING.md. Issues and PRs welcome.
MIT.