ClipstackQuick panel
Floats over whatever you’re doing without stealing focus. Search as you type and filter by text, links, images, files or pins.
Everything you copied,
one shortcut away. ⇧⌘V
Clipstack quietly keeps your clipboard history on your Mac. Hit the shortcut, type a few letters, press return, and it’s pasted into the app you were already in.
brew install --cask chiranjeebhub/tap/clipstack- Signed and notarized by Apple
- No account, no tracking
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
Try it · ↑↓ ↩
↑↓ Navigate↩ Paste⌘1–9 Quick paste⌘P Pin⌥↩ Plain text9 items
A working replica of the quick panel. Search it, filter it, and press return to copy an item.
Features
Small app. Big habit.
Built in SwiftUI and AppKit, so it feels like part of macOS and stays out of your way until you call it.
Pastes for you
Press return and the item lands in the app you were using. ⌥↩ strips formatting, and ⌘1–9 pastes the top nine instantly.
Pins that stay
Pin addresses, snippets and replies you reuse. History limits never remove them, and they sit in the menu bar with ⌥1–9.
Rich previews
Text, code, links, images, files and colors each get a proper preview. Fix a typo in a copied snippet with ⌘E.
iCloud sync, if you want it
Turn it on and your history, pins, settings and shortcut follow you to your other Macs and come back after a reinstall.
Knows where it came from
Every item shows the app it was copied from, so you can find that link from Safari or that line from Terminal at a glance.
Open Clipstack⇧⌘V
Paste as plain text⌥↩
Pin or unpin⌘P
Edit a text item⌘E
See it on a Mac
The real thing.
Search, filter and preview everything you’ve copied, then paste with return.
Watch it in action: copy, press ⇧⌘V, search and paste.
Privacy
Your clipboard is nobody’s business.
Clipboards hold passwords, addresses and private messages. Clipstack is built so that the only person who ever sees them is you.
- Stays on your MacHistory is stored locally. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you switch on iCloud sync, which uses your own private iCloud database.
- Skips passwordsItems that password managers mark as concealed or transient are never saved.
- Ignore apps, pause anytimeList apps whose copies are never recorded, and pause recording from the menu bar.
- No accounts, analytics or adsNo sign-in, no third-party SDKs, and the code is open for anyone to check.
Download
Get Clipstack your way.
● Available now
Homebrew
One line in Terminal.
brew install --cask chiranjeebhub/tap/clipstack
In review
Mac App Store
“ClipStack: Clipboard History” is with Apple for review and will be listed soon.
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. The App Store and direct versions share the same history, so install just one. On first launch Clipstack asks for Accessibility access, which macOS requires before an app can paste for you.
Open source
Made by one developer. Kept alive by you.
Clipstack is MIT-licensed and built in the open. If it saves you a few seconds a day, a star helps other people find it, and a sponsorship or a coffee keeps new features coming.
Why does Clipstack need Accessibility access?
macOS only lets an app send ⌘V to other apps once you allow Accessibility. Clipstack uses it for that one job and never reads your keystrokes or screen. Without it, choosing an item copies it and you paste it yourself.
Will it save my passwords?
No. Password managers mark what they copy as concealed or transient, and Clipstack skips those items. You can also add any app to Ignored Apps.
Can I change the shortcut?
Yes. ⇧⌘V is the default, and you can record any shortcut you like in Settings.
Does it sync between my Macs?
Yes, if you turn on iCloud sync. History, pins, settings and your shortcut sync through your own private iCloud database. It’s off by default.
How much history does it keep?
You choose how long items are kept and the maximum number of items. Pinned items are never removed by those limits.