Smart Clipboard 0.1.0
First public release of Smart Clipboard — a native macOS menu-bar clipboard manager.
Install
- Download
SmartClipboard-0.1.0.dmgbelow. - Open the DMG, drag Smart Clipboard into Applications.
- First launch: right-click the app in Applications → Open. (The DMG is ad-hoc signed, not Developer-ID-notarized, so a normal double-click triggers Gatekeeper.)
- Look for the clipboard icon in your menu bar.
What's in 0.1.0
- Native Swift/SwiftUI, ~5 MB binary, single process
- Captures text, images, and file references to a local SQLite + FTS5 database
- Menu-bar dropdown of starred + most-recent items
- Global hotkey (default ⌘⇧V, rebindable) → non-activating Spotlight-style picker
clipCLI (clip list,clip search foo,clip 3) via URL scheme- Star / unstar items, never auto-evicted
- Streamed JSON backup to a folder of your choice — point it at iCloud Drive / Dropbox / Google Drive for free cloud sync
Permissions
| Permission | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Accessibility | Synthesize ⌘V into the focused app on Enter |
| Input Monitoring | Global hotkey |
Known tradeoffs
- Captures everything, including passwords — no filtering of
org.nspasteboard.ConcealedType - SQLite DB is unencrypted at rest
- Ad-hoc signed, not notarized (right-click → Open the first time)
Checksum
```
sha256: 9105f383a74bd1129581cee2eb68f5e4e1db1ccd6393cc27bbcf6ce1d933bd73
```
See the README and design doc for details.