The clipboard manager for developers Encrypted history. Secrets behind Touch ID.

CopyBuffer is a macOS menu bar clipboard manager built for developers. It records the text, images and files you copy, lets you search and paste them with ⌘⇧V, and stores the history encrypted on your Mac only. It also includes snippets, a Touch ID password vault and a CLI that loads secrets as environment variables. The user guide lists every shortcut.

Yes. CopyBuffer for Windows lives in the notification area on x64 PCs with Windows 10 (version 2004 or later) and Windows 11, and opens with Win+Alt+V near your text cursor. It has the same encrypted history, snippets, paste transforms and password vault, protected by your master password, your Windows account (DPAPI) and Windows Hello. Search inside screenshots, paste in sequence and the cbvault terminal command are Mac only for now. One license key works on both.

Only a short one, and only on recent versions. Up to macOS 15 Sequoia the Mac keeps just the last thing you copied (Finder ▸ Edit ▸ Show Clipboard). macOS Tahoe 26 adds clipboard history to Spotlight, kept only for a limited time. CopyBuffer keeps your last 500 copies plus anything you pin, encrypted on disk and searchable down to the text inside images, on macOS 14 Sonoma and later. See how to see clipboard history on a Mac.

No. There is no cloud, no account and no analytics, and your clipboard never leaves your computer. The app goes online only when you ask it to: the breach check sends the first 5 characters of each password's SHA-1 hash to Have I Been Pwned, and registering a license key sends only that key, once, to our license server.

It is encrypted with AES-256-GCM in ~/Library/Application Support/CopyBuffer. The key is wrapped by a Secure Enclave key on your Mac, so the files cannot be opened if copied to another machine. The folder is readable by you only (0700).

No. Copies marked as concealed by password managers are skipped, and Keychain Access, Passwords, 1Password, Bitwarden, KeePassXC and Proton Pass are excluded by default. You can exclude any other app, pause recording, or skip the next copy. Passwords you copy from CopyBuffer's own vault stay on this Mac and don't travel to your iPhone or iPad through Universal Clipboard. See how to keep copied passwords out of clipboard history.

Give a vault entry an environment variable name, then run cbvault run OPENAI_API_KEY -- npm run dev. The value is passed only to that command after Touch ID approval, and the requesting process and working folder are written to the encrypted access log. There's no need to keep the key in a plain-text .env file. See how to keep API keys out of .env files.

Many apps have Edit ▸ Paste and Match Style (⌥⇧⌘V), but not all of them. With CopyBuffer, ⌥⇧⌘V pastes the current clipboard as plain text in any app, and anything you paste from the ⌘⇧V list is plain text too. See how to paste without formatting on a Mac.

It is not meant to. The vault is for one Mac and is optimized for developer keys and frequently pasted logins. It has no sync, no browser autofill and no team sharing, and it has not had an external security audit yet. For important accounts, keep using your password manager alongside it.

To paste the chosen item straight into the app you were using, to open the list under your text caret, and to read the browser's current address so matching logins come first. It asks once, the first time you paste. Without it, CopyBuffer still copies the item to the clipboard, so you can press ⌘V yourself.

Sandboxed App Store apps cannot read the text caret position or the browser's current address in other apps, or send the paste keystroke. Those are core features, so CopyBuffer is sold directly from this site.

When you copy an image, Apple Vision reads the Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese text and any QR code or barcode in it, on your Mac, and adds them to search. Images are never sent anywhere, and you can turn this off in Settings ▸ General. See how to search text inside screenshots on a Mac.

Try every feature free for 7 days, then keep it with a one-time US$12.99 purchase. No subscription. Payment is handled by Lemon Squeezy, which emails you a license key. When you register it, the app sends only that key once to our license server; after that the key is checked offline. After the trial, clipboard history keeps recording and your password vault always stays accessible. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 Sonoma or later, and on x64 PCs with Windows 10 (version 2004 or later) or Windows 11; one key works on both.

Export the password vault as a backup file encrypted with a separate password and import it on the new Mac, or open it with the recovery key you got when you created it. Clipboard history is tied to this Mac's Secure Enclave and cannot be moved.

The app is available in English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, German, French and Hindi, and follows your macOS or Windows language. Text search inside images (Mac) reads Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese.