A warm, powerful clipboard manager for macOS. Card-based history, smart content detection, a built-in screenshot editor, dock preview, AI-powered text transformations — all local, open source, and free.

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Everything you copy — text, images, code, colors, URLs — lives on briefly in your clipboard and is gone. Clippy keeps it all, in a beautiful menu bar history you can search, star, pin, and paste with a hotkey. Then it goes further: annotate screenshots, convert files, stash downloads on a shelf, transform text with local or cloud AI.

All on your Mac. No accounts. No cloud. No telemetry.

📋 Smart clipboard history with content-aware previews for URLs, colors, JSON, code, images
🎯 Hover actions — Paste, Star, Pin, AI transform appear the moment you need them
⚡ Quick Preview — hit the hotkey, paste from the last N items in a floating overlay
✍️ Screenshot editor with Studio Bar, context-aware Inspector, 20+ annotation tools
🪟 Dock Preview — Windows 11–style thumbnails with live streaming and numbered badges
✨ AI transformations — Summarize, translate, fix grammar, explain code. Local via Ollama or cloud
🧩 Snippets that type themselves — save reusable text with a keyword, summon it anywhere
🗂 File Converter — images, docs, audio, video, data formats. Drag, drop, convert
📦 Shelf — a dedicated drawer for files you need to keep handy across apps
🔐 Encrypted items & per-type filters — lock sensitive entries, filter by type

Every copy is captured and rendered intelligently:

• Text shows its source app, time, and the first few lines
• URLs get a host chip + full URL preview
• Colors show a live swatch + HEX
• Code renders with a language chip and mono font
• JSON collapses structure into one line
• Images display as full-bleed thumbnails with dimensions

Hover any card to reveal transform, star, pin, and paste actions.

Type to filter instantly. The placeholder adapts to the active tab (Search clipboard… / Search snippets… / Search images…) so you always know what you're searching.

Pinned items float above the Recent stream so you never lose what matters — including Clippy's Encrypted content entries for anything sensitive.

Star anything you want to keep long-term and jump to the Starred tab to see only those.

Tabs at the top narrow the list to a single content type — All, Images, Snippets, Starred.

Save any text as a reusable snippet with a keyword. Type ;keyword anywhere on your Mac — Clippy detects the trigger, deletes it, and pastes the expanded content. Think TextExpander, but built in and free.

Each snippet gets its own detail window: keyword, app scope, template body, and live usage stats (how many times fired, last used).

Dynamic placeholders — resolved automatically at paste time:

Fill-in-the-blank parameters — prompt a quick form at paste time using single braces:

Hi {name},

Attached is invoice #{number:number} for {project:choice:Website,App,Consulting}.
Due date: {due:date}.

{signature=Best,\nMehmet}

Typing ;invoice pops up a short dialog with a text field, a number input, a dropdown, a date picker, and a pre-filled signature. A live Preview at the bottom shows the final text as you fill it in. Press Paste — every placeholder is replaced inline and inserted into the focused app.

Supported parameter types: {name}, {name:text}, {name:number}, {name:date}, {name:time}, {name:choice:A,B,C}, plus {name=default} to pre-fill any of them.

Global variables — define reusable placeholders once in Settings → Snippets → Variables ({{MY_NAME}}, {{MY_EMAIL}}, {{MY_COMPANY}} …) and reference them from any snippet. Change a variable once, every snippet picks up the new value.

App-scoped — tie a snippet to specific apps (e.g. Mail + Outlook) so ;signature only fires where you want it.

Nested composition — build longer templates out of smaller snippets ({{;greeting}} + {{;signature}} inside a bigger email body).

Usage-aware — Clippy tracks how often each snippet fires, so you can see your power-users at a glance from the detail inspector.

Every card has a rich context menu: copy, paste, share, convert color format, star, pin, encrypt, combine images, delete.

Run Summarize, Expand, Fix Grammar, Translate (30+ languages), Bullet Points, Draft Email, and code-specific actions (Explain, Add Comments, Find Bugs, Optimize) on any clipboard item.

Choose your provider:

• Ollama — fully local, free, private
• OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini — bring-your-own-key

There are text utilities built-in too: Base64 encode/decode, case conversion, JSON format/minify, duplicate-line removal, line joining.

Click any item to open its detail window. Left: persistent action rail (star, pin, encrypt, share, delete). Center: rich editor. Right: context-aware inspector (keyword, app scope, usage stats).

Different content types get different treatments — JSON gets a tree view, a Valid-JSON badge, and a Raw toggle.

Colors get a dedicated card with a glowing swatch and a one-tap Copy menu that converts between HEX, RGB, HSL formats.

Hit the Quick Preview hotkey (default ⌘⌥V) anywhere to see the last 10 items in a floating panel. Number keys 1-9 paste directly, ↑↓ navigate, esc dismisses.

The built-in editor has its own design language. Tool rail on the left, live canvas in the middle, context-aware Inspector on the right that shows either the active tool's properties or the selected annotation's details.

20+ tools, every one of them configurable live:

• Arrow with 5 arrowhead styles and 5 stroke patterns
• Text with bold/italic/alignment, contrast-aware backgrounds, box sizing
• Pen with 3 brush styles (solid/dashed/marker)
• Shapes with corner radius, fill modes, gradient
• Sketch mode for a hand-drawn look on arrows/rects/ellipses
• Blur, pixelate, spotlight, pin (numbered markers), emoji, magnifier, ruler
• Eyedropper with pixel-accurate loupe and 9 color-format copy options
• Effects: backdrop padding, shadow, corner radius, border, watermark

A dedicated drawer for files you want to keep around across apps — downloads, attachments, mockups, PDFs. Drag files onto the shelf from anywhere; drag them back out when you need them. Shown with type pills (PDF / ZIP / folder / image dimensions) and batch actions.

Drag files in, pick output formats, convert in batch:

• Image: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, HEIC, WEBP, PDF
• Document: RTF, HTML, TXT, PDF, Markdown, DOCX
• Audio: M4A, WAV, AAC, AIFF, MP3, FLAC, CAF
• Video: MOV, MP4, M4V, AVI
• Data: JSON, YAML, XML, CSV, PLIST

Hover any app in the Dock to see Windows 11–style thumbnails — with numbered keyboard hints, inline title bars, and (optionally) live streaming at 5 FPS.

Everything is configurable from a single NavigationSplitView-based Settings window — General, Features, AI, Shortcuts, Snippets, Windows, Privacy, About.

Launch at login, theme, popover size, visible tabs, auto-update checks.

Fine-grained toggles: auto code detection, content detection, duplicate skip, source-app tracking, screenshot editor, OCR, file converter, drag-drop shelf, Quick Preview.

Pick a provider (Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini), paste your API key, choose a model, test the connection. Available actions at the bottom tell you exactly what Clippy will offer on your cards.

Rebind every hotkey — Show/Hide, Paste Selected, Quick Preview, Sequential Copy/Paste, Clear Queue, Screenshot, App Switcher.

Tune the Dock Preview: animation style, preview size, hover delay, trackpad gestures, window caching, max cache size.

1. Grab the latest .dmg from Releases
2. Double-click, drag Clippy.app to /Applications
3. Launch — a short onboarding walks you through setup

Clippy ships with Sparkle. New versions are checked in the background every 24 hours, or on demand via Settings → General → Check Now. Updates are cryptographically signed (EdDSA) so only the real Clippy can push them to your install.

git clone https://github.com/yarasaa/Clippy.git
cd Clippy
open Clippy.xcodeproj
# Product → Run (⌘R) in Xcode

Requirements: macOS 13+, Xcode 16+, Swift 5.9+.

All rebindable from Settings → Shortcuts.

Quick Preview overlay has its own nav keys — 1-9 to paste, ↑↓ to move, esc to dismiss.

Clippy stores everything on your Mac, in CoreData, under your user account.

• No network calls except for:
  • Optional AI transformations (only if you enable them and only to the provider you choose — Ollama runs fully local)
  • Auto-update checks to raw.githubusercontent.com/yarasaa/Clippy
• No analytics, telemetry, or account system
• Source app tracking can be disabled in Settings → Features
• Encrypted items — lock sensitive clipboard entries so they show up as "Encrypted content" until you authenticate

See PRIVACY.md (coming soon) for the full breakdown.

Clippy is open source and community contributions are very welcome.

• Bugs / feature requests: GitHub Issues
• Code contributions: fork, branch, PR against main
• Larger changes: open an issue first to discuss direction

Releasing (maintainers only) — see docs/SPARKLE_SETUP.md.

• Sparkle for the auto-update framework
• HotKey for global keyboard shortcuts
• Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google for AI access
• Everyone who filed bugs, tested builds, and pushed for the Ember redesign

If Clippy makes your life easier, a coffee keeps it going:

MIT — see LICENSE.