Clipivo 0.9.5-beta · Free public beta
Your clipboardremembers.
Clipivo keeps everything you copy — searchable, organized, private, and available whenever you need it.
Native macOSLocal-firstUnlimited history
See featuresgit checkout main && git pull --rebase
Shell · 1 line
2m⌘1Client invoice copy
Hi Maya — invoice #2041 for the September retainer is attached. Payment terms are net 14. Thanks again for a great quarter!
#billing18m⌘2supabase.com/dashboard/project/northwind/settings/api
https://supabase.com/dashboard/project/northwind/settings/api
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History⇧⌘V
Everything you copy. One place.
Text, images, links, files, code and colors land on one shelf, newest first — docked to the bottom of your screen. Go ahead: search it, switch Spaces, pin something, or click a card to paste it.
25 clips
Try it:←→ moveclick or ↩ paste⇧↩ plain text⌥↩ copy onlySpace Quick Look⌘P pin⌘[⌘] Spaces
Copying is temporary.
Remembering shouldn’t be.
⌘CCopy
An install command you'll need again.
macOS clipboard · 1 item
How it works⇧⌘V → ↩
Copy once.
Paste anywhere.
Press ⇧⌘V in any app and type a few letters. One click on a clip pastes it into the app you were typing in — and the clip moves to the front of your history as the current clipboard.
- 01⇧⌘V
⇧⌘V
- 02
Clipivo opens
- 03q3 report
Search
- 04Q3 kickoff agendaQ3 report — finalQ2 report — draft
Click or ↩
- 05Attached: Q3 report — final
Paste
The clip
Rich Text
Q3 report — final numbers are in the shared folder.
Mail · 1h
The app you were typing in
Mail — Re: Quarterly numbers
Hi team,
Quick update:
Thanks!
Pick a mode — or focus this demo and press ↩, ⇧↩ or ⌥↩.
HistoryNo expiry
Keep it
forever.
No arbitrary history limits. No forced 30-day cleanup. Your clipboard stays yours until you decide otherwise.
No item caps
Not 50, not 500, not 1,000. Every clip stays searchable.
Cleanup is opt-in
Age-based rules are off by default and never touch pinned clips or Spaces.
Unlimited history by policy, constrained only by available local storage.
2026
Now
git checkout main && git pull --rebase
Shell · 1 line
14 Jan
Q4 roadmap — ship Spaces, polish OCR, and sign the beta.
3 Sep
2027
+1 yr
Screenshot 2026-09-29 at 07.00.14
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14 Jan 2027
Meeting notes — design sync
Keep the shelf full-width. Test ⇧⌘V on external displays. Revisit card density before the beta.
3 Sep 2027
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+2 yr
Supabase client
TypeScript · 4 lines
14 Jan 2028
API rate limit is 5,000 requests per hour per token. Retry with exponential backoff after a 429.
3 Sep 2028
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+3 yr
logo.svg and 2 more
~/Design/Brand
14 Jan 2029
developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/recognizing-text-in-images
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/recognizing-text-in-images
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+4 yr
#7C3AED
rgb(124, 58, 237)
14 Jan 2030
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maya@northwind.example
14 Jan 2031
“Make it work, make it right, make it fast.”
3 Sep 2031
…and still there.
History doesn’t expire.
SearchSubstring · Ranked
Find the thing you copied three weeks ago.
Type any fragment you remember. Clipivo searches clipboard text, titles, file names, URLs, the words inside images and the apps things came from.
Type anything you remember — a word, a site, an app, a color.
Types15 kinds recognised
Everything you copy, exactly as you copied it.
Clipivo keeps every useful representation of a copy and shows each one the way it should look. Hover a tile.
Text
Every snippet, however small.
Aa
Rich text
Bold, links and lists stay intact.
Images
Photos and artwork, with thumbnails.
Code
Recognised and highlighted in 18 languages.
Colors
Hex, RGB, HSL and native colors.
Links
Host, path and page at a glance.
Screenshots
Captured the moment you copy them.
OCR
The words inside images, searchable.
Files
Files and folders, with Quick Look.
First-page previews and page counts.
Also recognised: folders, email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, credentials and one-time codes.
OCROn-device
Search what was inside the screenshot.
On-device OCR keeps image text searchable without sending your screenshots to a server.
- Text recognition runs in the background with Apple’s Vision framework.
- Works on screenshots, photos and any image you copy.
- Right-click an image › Copy Text from Image.
Screenshot · 1512×982Copied just now
Docs — Release
Production deployment checklist
Run database migrations
Verify health checks
Tag release 0.9.0
Announce in #launch
Search your clipboard
SpacesPins · Titles · Tags
Give your memory structure.
Keep work, personal and project clips apart without moving anything. A clip can live in several Spaces at once — and always in History.
- Pin the clips you reach for every day with ⌘P.
- Give any clip a title with ⌘R. Clipivo never overwrites it.
- Delete a Space and its clips stay in History.
const supabase = createClient( process.env.SUPABASE_URL, process.env.SUPABASE_ANON_KEY, )
History
LocalNo account · No cloud
Your clipboard is private by default.
Clipboard data is some of the most sensitive data on your computer. Clipivo treats it that way — nothing leaves your Mac. Read the privacy details
- No account requiredNothing to sign up for. Open it and it works.
- Stays on your MacHistory lives in your Library folder with owner-only permissions.
- Local OCRApple’s Vision framework reads images on-device.
- No uploads, no analyticsNo telemetry. No network access in the default setup.
- Ignored appsPassword managers are skipped. Add any app you like.
- Private clips & lockEncrypt sensitive clips; lock history behind Touch ID.
This Mac
⌘CAny app
ClipivoClassifies · OCR · thumbnailsYour history~/Library/Application Support/ClipivoOwner-only files · private clips AES-256-GCM
Network access, default setupnone
Ignored appsChecked before reading
Some things shouldn’t be remembered.
Tell Clipivo which apps to ignore and it won’t read their clipboard at all. Password managers are skipped automatically, and likely secrets get a second look.
Settings › Privacy
Ignored apps
Never save clipboard contents from these apps.
- 1PasswordPassword manager — skipped automatically
- Banking
- Terminal
- Slack
- Chrome
Add app…
Live — what happens when you copy
Account 4029 •••• 1182
Not saved — Banking is ignored
History
- Studio hours: 9–6, Mon–FriChrome
- Design review at 3Slack
Toggle an app and watch the next copy change. Ignored apps are checked before anything is read. Secret detection is a heuristic safety net, not a guarantee.
Performance
Instant.
Feels instant — from the moment you copy to the moment it lands where you’re typing.
- ⌘CCopyYou copy the way you always do.
- CapturedSaved in the background, off the main thread.
- SearchResults update as you type, from a local index.
- SelectArrow keys, ⌘1–⌘9, or a click.
- ⌘VPasteStraight into the app you were using.
0
clips in Clipivo’s stress tests.
The search index, paging and memory use are tested at 100,000 and 500,000 records. Real histories are usually far smaller. Your history is paged, so the panel never loads everything at once.
NativeSwift · AppKit · SwiftUI
Built for the Mac.
Not a website pretending to be one.
Clipivo is built natively for macOS. It lives in the menu bar, opens with a keystroke and gets out of the way. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
FinderFileEditViewWindow
Tue 9:41Finder
Tue 9:41Apple Silicon & Intel
Release builds are universal binaries.
Menu bar app
Out of the way; a Dock icon is optional.
Keyboard-first
Every action has a key. Pick your own global shortcut.
Light & Dark
Follows your appearance, or choose one.
Multiple displays
Opens on the screen you’re working on.
Touch ID lock
Hide history behind Touch ID or your password.
VoiceOver & Reduce Motion
Labelled for VoiceOver; honours reduced motion.
Launch at login
Ready before you need it.
RoadmapNo dates promised
Built with tomorrow in mind.
macOS comes first, and it’s here now. The core was designed to travel — other platforms and encrypted sync are planned, not promised.
Now
- Available
macOS
The native Mac app — everything on this page.
Next
- Coming later
Windows
Native app on the same storage format.
- Coming later
iPhone & iPad
Keyboard and Share extensions.
- Coming later
Android
Keyboard and share target.
Later
- Coming later
Encrypted cross-device sync
Opt-in and end-to-end encrypted — the server would only ever see ciphertext.
Up next on the Mac: dragging clips out of the panel and onto Spaces, snippets with placeholders, a paste stack, and notarized builds with automatic updates. Future platforms aren’t available yet — the storage format and archive format were designed so they can share your history later.
Source · GitHub
Source available on GitHub.
Clipivo’s source, issues and releases live on GitHub. Read exactly how your history is stored and run the tests — or tell us what’s missing. Clipivo is source-available under its own license, not open source.
Terminal — zsh
~ % git clone https://github.com/jishnumahanta/clipivo.git~ % cd clipivoclipivo % scripts/build-app.sh==> Building Clipivo (release)==> Built dist/Clipivo.appclipivo % open dist/Clipivo.app
Your clipboard is ready.
Free public beta for macOS. Install in under a minute; your history starts with the next thing you copy.
- Latest version
- 0.9.5-beta (beta)
- Architecture
- Universal · Apple Silicon & Intel
- Requires
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Published
- October 5, 2026
- Download
- Clipivo-0.9.5.dmg · 4.7 MB
Need a hand? Installation guide · Release notes
InstallAbout a minute
From download to ⇧⌘V in six steps.
01Download
Get the latest build from GitHub Releases.
02Open the DMG
Double-click the disk image to mount it.
03Move to Applications
Drag Clipivo into your Applications folder.
04Open it once
macOS blocks it the first time with this message — expected for any app without a paid $99/year Apple certificate, not a sign something’s wrong. Click Done.
05Open Anyway
On macOS 15 and later, go to Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway next to Clipivo, and confirm. (macOS 14: right-click Clipivo › Open › Open — no settings step needed.) This is one-time, per install.
06Allow Accessibility
Lets Clipivo paste into the app you’re using. Without it, a click copies and you press ⌘V.
07Done
Press ⇧⌘V anywhere. Copy as usual — Clipivo remembers.