About ClipyPro

ClipyPro is a powerful clipboard manager designed to enhance your productivity on macOS. It seamlessly captures everything you copy, organizing it into an easily accessible history that you can search and retrieve at any time.

Why ClipyPro?

In today's fast-paced digital world, we constantly copy and paste information. Whether you're a developer juggling code snippets, a writer managing research, or a professional working with multiple documents, losing track of something you copied moments ago can be frustrating.

ClipyPro solves this problem by maintaining a comprehensive history of everything you copy, making it instantly retrievable whenever you need it.

Intelligent Clipboard Management

Automatic Clipboard Monitoring

ClipyPro runs continuously in the background with real-time clipboard capture, monitoring both text and image content types. The lightweight monitoring system uses minimal resources with a 0.5-second polling interval, ensuring your workflow stays smooth while never missing a copy.

Smart Content Handling

Built-in duplicate detection automatically updates existing entries instead of creating duplicates, while tracking access counts and timestamps for chronological organization. Images are preserved using Base64 encoding to maintain quality and compatibility.

Configurable History Limits

Adjust your clipboard storage from 10 to 1,000 items based on your needs. The smart cleanup system preserves favorites and organized content, automatically deleting only unprotected items in history. Your important clips—favorites and folder items—are never auto-deleted.

Advanced Organization System

Favorites System

Star any clip for permanent retention that persists across app restarts. Quick access from the dedicated Favorites section means your most-used content is always at your fingertips. Simply Option-click menu items to quickly add to favorites, and rest assured they're protected from auto-cleanup regardless of history limits.

Custom Folder Organization

Create unlimited custom folders to organize your clips exactly how you want. Drag-and-drop clips between folders or move them via context menus. Folders display inline item counts and organize alphabetically by name, with all folder contents protected from history limit cleanup.

Hierarchical Menu Structure

The menu is organized into clear sections: Recent Clips, Favorites, and Folders. Recent clips auto-group in sets of 10 when history exceeds 10 items, with expandable/collapsible folder menus and section headers for effortless navigation.

Comprehensive Clip Management Window

Full-Featured Management Interface

Access the dedicated management window with ⌘+M to view all clipboard content in a three-column outline view showing Title, Content Preview, and Date Modified. The hierarchical view displays Favorites, History, and all Folders with real-time search across all clips, multi-select support for batch operations, and comfortable 36px row height for easy viewing.

Inline Editing Capabilities

Double-click any clip to edit its title or double-click folders to rename them. Edit clip content directly from the management window with optional custom naming for all clips. Changes automatically update timestamps, keeping your organization current.

Drag & Drop Organization

Intuitively drag clips to folders, the Favorites section, or back to History to remove from folders. Visual feedback during drag operations and intelligent drop validation ensure your organization stays exactly as you want it.

Advanced Actions

Toggle favorite status for multiple clips, batch move clips to folders, or batch delete with confirmation. Create new folders on-the-fly and remove clips from folders—all without leaving the management window.

Powerful Search & Filtering

Real-Time Search

The search field in the management window provides case-insensitive content search with instant results as you type. Search across all clips regardless of location while results remain organized by section for easy browsing.

Smart Sorting Options

Choose from three sorting modes: Date (Newest First) for default chronological sorting, Alphabetical for A-Z content sorting, or Most Used to sort by access count with date as tiebreaker. Sorting applies to the Recent Clips section and your preference persists across sessions.

Import/Export Functionality

JSON-Based Export

Export all clips to JSON format, preserving clip content, titles, timestamps, access counts, favorite status, and folder assignments. The export includes metadata like version and export date, with timestamped filenames for easy organization.

Intelligent Import

Import clips from JSON files with duplicate detection during import. ClipyPro preserves folder structure, creates folders as needed, maintains favorite status and metadata, and shows an import summary with the count of new clips added.

Application Exclusion List

Privacy & Security Controls

Exclude specific applications from clipboard monitoring using the visual app picker. Browse apps with their icons, names, and bundle identifiers displayed. Real-time checking of the active application means monitoring automatically pauses for excluded apps, giving you complete privacy control.

Smart Application Detection

Uses bundle identifiers for precise matching with frontmost application detection. Compatible with all macOS applications, your exclusion list persists across sessions for consistent privacy protection.

Menu Bar Integration

Clean Menu Bar Interface

The minimalist clipboard icon in your menu bar provides instant access to your full clipboard history. Recent clips display with content preview, showing truncated text (19-22 characters) for a clean appearance while full content appears in tooltips (200 character preview). Use the Option-modifier key to reveal management actions.

Context-Aware Menu Items

Regular click copies a clip to clipboard, while Option-click on recent items adds to favorites. Option-click on favorites or folder items reveals a management submenu with options to Copy, Edit, Delete, Move, and Toggle Favorite status.

Smart Menu Organization

When you have more than 10 recent items, they auto-group into submenus with labels showing item ranges (1-10, 11-20, etc.). Folder icons (📁) and star icons (⭐) provide visual distinction, with item counts displayed for folders.

Clip Naming & Titling

Add descriptive titles to any clip to make frequently-used items easily identifiable. Titles display in the menu bar dropdown with content preview shown in a separate column. Edit titles via double-click in the management window, with titled clips showing in bold and clear visual separation between metadata and content.

Command Conversion (Developer Feature)

Shell Command Support

Convert text clips to executable shell commands with automatic detection of command-like patterns. ClipyPro recognizes 40+ common command prefixes (git, npm, brew, curl, etc.) with pattern matching for flags and options. Execute commands and have the output automatically copied to clipboard, with named commands for easy identification.

Command Execution

Safe background execution via /bin/bash captures standard output and errors. Output is automatically copied to clipboard with error handling and logging to ensure reliability.

Preferences & Customization

General Preferences

Customize your maximum clipboard history (10-1,000 items, default: 100), select your preferred sort order (Date/Alphabetical/Most Used), and enable launch at login using the modern SMAppService API. All preferences update in real-time with stepper controls for easy adjustment.

Multi-Language Support

ClipyPro offers full localization in English, Spanish, and Russian with 120+ localized strings covering all UI elements, alert messages, dialogs, status messages, tooltips, error messages, and column headers. Date and time formatting respects your locale preferences.

Data Persistence & Privacy

Core Data Storage

All data is stored locally using Core Data with no cloud sync or network access. Programmatic data model generation, automatic context merging, and relationship management ensure data integrity. Cascade delete handles folder contents automatically.

Privacy First

ClipyPro maintains a zero network dependencies policy with no external analytics, telemetry, or tracking. Local-only data storage combined with application exclusion for sensitive apps and sandboxed execution means your clipboard data stays completely private.

User Experience Features

Keyboard Shortcuts

• ⌘+M: Open Manage Clips window
• ⌘+,: Open Preferences
• ⌘+Q: Quit ClipyPro
• Option key: Reveal alternate actions
• System-standard shortcuts throughout

Visual Polish

macOS native UI components, SF Symbols for icons, smooth animations and transitions, alternating row colors in tables, system color support for both light and dark modes, and proper focus management create a polished, native experience.

Accessibility

Full VoiceOver support via accessibility descriptions, keyboard navigation throughout, system font respecting user preferences, high contrast support, and standard macOS interaction patterns ensure ClipyPro is accessible to all users.

Perfect For

• Developers: Keep track of code snippets, commands, API keys, and execute shell commands directly
• Writers: Manage research, quotes, frequently used phrases, and organize by project
• Designers: Quick access to color codes, CSS snippets, and text content
• Students: Organize notes, citations, and study materials with custom folders
• Professionals: Email templates, signatures, common responses, and multi-language support

Get Started Today

Download ClipyPro from the Mac App Store and transform the way you work with your clipboard. Simple to use, powerful when you need it, and completely private.