Copy like usual
Clipwright quietly watches the clipboard and keeps your last 30 text clippings. Links, snippets, addresses, tracking numbers — all swept into history as you work.
Native macOS · Menu bar app
Your clipboard,with a memory.
Clipwright remembers what you copy. Your last 30 text clippings — searchable, pinnable, and one click away from being pasted again. No more re-copying the same link, snippet, or tracking number.
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github.com/cloverwright/clipwright
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npm run build -- --turbopack
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“Your clipboard, with a memory.”
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1Z 884 201 09 4421 008 7
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14 Maple Court, Apt 9
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how it works, in three snipsstep one — step two — step three —
Cut. Pin. Paste.
Pin & search
Pin the clippings you reach for daily so they sit at the top and survive restarts. Type a few letters and the panel filters as you type.
Paste it back
Click any clipping and it's back on your clipboard, ready to paste. No drag, no menus, no ceremony — one click and you're done.
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Every trick, on index cards.
Clipwright does one job — remembering what you copy — and does it with the polish you'd expect from the OS itself.
30-item history
Everything you copy — links, snippets, addresses, tracking numbers — kept in a rolling history of your last 30 text clippings.
Pin favorites
Pin the clippings you reach for daily. Pinned favorites sit at the top of the panel and survive app restarts.
Instant search
Type a few letters and the panel filters as you type. That tracking number from Tuesday is two keystrokes away.
One-click paste-back
Click any clipping and it's back on your clipboard, ready to paste. No drag, no menus, no ceremony.
Auto-clear options
Choose 10, 30, or 50 remembered items, and optionally wipe history on quit. Your clipboard hygiene, your rules.
100% local & private
Native Swift, no Electron, no network calls, no telemetry. Your clippings never leave your Mac — sync is deliberately absent.
…and yes, they're all pinned up there, free of charge.
the price of admission
Free. Forever.
Clipwright is a gift from the studio — a small, perfect tool, priced like one.
- Full clipboard history, pinning, search, and paste-back
- History size and auto-clear options, launch at login
- Complete Xcode project source included
- Free updates, whenever the clipboard learns new tricks
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Get Clipwright for your Mac.
Free for macOS 13 and later. One click, and your clipboard gets a memory.
CLOVERWRIGHT STUDIORECEIPT N°0001
Clipwright 1.0 — for macOSApple Silicon & Intel · ~400 KB · Free
ITEMClipwright 1.0
PLATFORMmacOS 13+
SOURCEIncluded
TOTAL$0.00
This build ships as a complete Xcode project — open it, press ⌘R, and the clipboard glyph moves into your menu bar. A signed, double-clickable release is on the way. Clipwright is a Cloverwright product.
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Questions, opened.
Six letters we get often. Click a letter to unfold the answer.
Q01Does Clipwright store images or files?
No — Clipwright is text-only by design. It reads only plain-text strings from the clipboard; images, files, PDFs, and other rich pasteboard types are ignored completely. History lives in memory, and only pinned favorites are persisted locally.
Q02Does it read my passwords?
No. Clipwright captures only plain-text strings, and apps that mark content as concealed — like password managers — never vend a plain string to the clipboard, so that content is never captured. That said, avoiding password fields is incidental in v1 rather than a designed secure-input check; if you copy a password as plain text yourself, it will be remembered like anything else. When in doubt, hit Clear All.
Q03Will Clipwright work on Apple Silicon?
Yes — it's a universal Swift binary that runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 13 (Ventura) or later.
Q04How much history can it keep?
You choose: 10, 30, or 50 text clippings in Settings (30 is the default). Older items fall off the end automatically, and there's an option to wipe the whole history every time Clipwright quits — pins are always kept.
Q05Does it sync my clippings anywhere?
No, deliberately. Clipwright makes zero network requests — no sync, no accounts, no analytics. Everything stays on your Mac, between the app and your pasteboard.
Q06Is it really free?
Yes — free forever, no trial, no subscription, no feature gates. The download even includes the complete Xcode project so you can inspect or fork it.
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Under the hood.
Clipwright is a Cloverwright product — native Apple platforms built in Swift, held to the same standard as our client work.
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FIG. 1
NSPasteboard polling done right
Clipwright watches NSPasteboard.general.changeCount on a one-second timer — the standard, lightweight way to observe the clipboard. Empty strings are skipped, consecutive duplicates are deduplicated, and paste-back writes are never re-captured.
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Native Swift & SwiftUI
Pure Swift and SwiftUI with a MenuBarExtra scene — no Electron, no webview, no background daemons. It launches in a blink, sips almost no memory, and renders like a first-party macOS citizen.
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Instant search
Search filters history and pins live as you type with a case-insensitive match — no indexing service, no database, just the strings you already have. Results appear faster than you can read them.
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Privacy — nothing leaves the Mac
Clipwright makes zero network requests. No analytics, no crash reporting phoning home, no account, no sync. Text-only capture, in-memory history, pins in local UserDefaults — and the source ships with the download.