Clipfield keeps a history of everything you copy on your Mac. Press ⇧⌘V in any app, type a few letters, and it pastes what you pick right where you were typing.
1.3 MB. macOS 14 Sonoma or later on Apple Silicon. Signed and notarized.
What it does
Clipfield lives in the menu bar and saves each thing you copy: text, links, images and files. It keeps the last 500 by default.
Press ⇧⌘V wherever you're typing, pick a clip, and Clipfield pastes it there. You don't need the mouse.
Links, emails, phone numbers, colors, code and dates are tagged when they come in, so you can narrow the list to one kind.
Save text you write often. Add a field like {{name}} and Clipfield asks for it before it pastes.
Right-click a clip to paste it as plain text, change its case, trim it, or tidy up JSON.
Anything a password manager marks as private is never saved. You can leave out whole apps and encrypt what is saved.
Clipfield has no account, no sync and no analytics. Your history is stored on this Mac and nowhere else.
Turn on encryption in Settings and clips are sealed with AES-GCM. The key stays in your Mac's Keychain.
Clipfield is written in Swift with SwiftUI and AppKit. The download is 1.3 MB.
Open source
Every feature, with no account to make.
Drag it to Applications and open it. It lives in the menu bar and has no Dock icon.
The welcome window walks you through it. Clipfield needs it to paste for you; until then, picking a clip copies it and you press ⌘V.
Search, pick a clip, and it's pasted into the app you were using.
Questions
Macs with Apple Silicon running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. On an Intel Mac you can build it from the source on GitHub.
To paste for you, Clipfield presses ⌘V in the app you were using, and macOS only allows that with Accessibility turned on. The shortcut and the history work without it; you just paste yourself.
No. Password managers mark what they copy as private, and Clipfield skips anything marked that way. You can also exclude any app in Settings, and nothing copied from it is saved.
On your Mac, in a local database. Nothing is sent anywhere. Turn on encryption in Settings and the contents of clips and snippets are encrypted with a key kept in your Keychain. Timestamps, the source app and the type stay readable so search and sorting keep working.
The last 500 clips by default. You can set anything from 50 to 5,000 in Settings. Pinned clips are always kept.
Yes. ⇧⌘V is the default, and you can record any shortcut you like in Settings.
Yes. Clipfield is free and open source under the MIT License, with no paid tier and no account. If you'd like to say thanks, you can buy me a coffee.
Open an issue or a pull request on GitHub, or email hello@jolley.app.
Free and open source. macOS 14 or later.