Copybara

Native clipboard manager for macOS

Your clipboard history, all in one place.

Your clipboard has more than one useful thing in it.

Copybara remembers text, images, formatted text and files. Open your history, search, and press Return to paste into the app you were using.

Download for Mac How it works

Free direct download · macOS 12 or later · No account required

Copybara clipboard history with search, comments, an image, a file and a text snippet
The real Copybara interface, shown with demonstration content. Appearance varies with macOS and your settings.

Find the clip, keep your flow

Open history with ⌘⇧V. Search with fuzzy, exact or regular-expression matching, move with the arrow keys and paste with Return.

More than plain text

Keep text, images, rich text and file references. Pin useful entries, add searchable comments and paste without formatting when you need to.

Your history stays here

History is stored on your Mac. No account, cloud sync, advertising or analytics. Recognized password and transient clipboard types are filtered out.

From copy to paste in three steps

  1. Copy as usual

    Copybara sits in the menu bar and keeps eligible clipboard entries in a local history.

  2. Press ⌘⇧V

    Find an older clip with search or the arrow keys. Keep frequent clips pinned so they are easy to reach.

  3. Press Return

    Copybara brings you back to the previous app and pastes the selected clip. Allow Accessibility when prompted to enable automatic pasting.

Keep the useful things close.

Pin frequent clips, label them with comments and use the keyboard to bring them back. Reusable snippets keep the text you type again and again within reach.

Copybara showing pinned demonstration clips and comments
Pinned clips and comments in the real app, with demonstration content.

Choose how much history to keep, your search mode, the popup position and where the app icon appears. Launch at login is optional on macOS 13 or later.

Copybara preferences showing history retention, search mode and appearance controls
Real Copybara preferences. Liquid Glass is available on macOS 26; earlier systems use the native material appearance.

Local by design

Your clipboard is not a cloud service.

Your history and snippets stay in local application storage. Copybara does not upload clipboard contents, use analytics or require a sign-in.

Accessibility is used to send the paste shortcut. Copybara does not use it to read screen contents. The direct-download build checks for updates through GitHub when you ask it to; updates are verified by Sparkle.

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Need a hand?

Report a problem or suggest an improvement on GitHub. For a private support request, contact the developer by email.

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Include your macOS and Copybara versions. Remove passwords and other private clipboard contents from logs and screenshots.