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ClipFlow is a native, privacy-first clipboard manager for macOS. It keeps your clipboard history local, makes it easy to find past clips, and is designed for fast keyboard-driven workflows.
- Capture and restore text, rich text, links, files, images, PDFs, and other supported pasteboard representations.
- Search clipboard history and browse it by content type, favorites, and custom categories.
- Open a floating clipboard panel with
Command+Shift+V, then paste, favorite, rename, categorize, preview, or delete an item. - Choose original-format or plain-text paste behavior.
- Optionally browse and activate tabs from Safari, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge.
- Encrypt clipboard metadata with SQLCipher and encrypt large local payload files separately.
- Run entirely on your Mac: no accounts, advertising, analytics, telemetry, or cloud clipboard processing.
| Clipboard history | Type-specific actions |
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| Settings | Browser tabs |
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Clipboard data is stored locally. ClipFlow requests optional macOS permissions only when a related feature needs them:
- Accessibility lets ClipFlow automatically paste into the previously active app. Without it, ClipFlow restores the clipboard and you can paste manually.
- Automation is required only if you enable browser-tab integration; browser control stays on your Mac.
- Launch at Login is optional.
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Swift 6.2 toolchain
- Homebrew, only when bootstrapping the local SQLCipher development libraries
git clone git@github.com:osbrain/ClipFlow.git
cd ClipFlow
./scripts/bootstrap-dev-deps.sh
swift build
swift run ClipFlowCoreTestsPackage a locally ad-hoc-signed app:
./scripts/package-app.sh debug
open artifacts/ClipFlow.appFor a release configuration, use:
./scripts/package-app.sh releaseIssues and pull requests are welcome. Please keep changes focused, include relevant tests where practical, and do not add network services, analytics, or remote clipboard processing without prior discussion.
ClipFlow is available under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. It permits personal and other non-commercial use, modification, and distribution, but prohibits commercial use.
This is a source-available project, not OSI-approved open source: OSI open-source licenses must allow commercial use. See LICENSE for the complete terms.