Clipboard history on your Mac
A Mac holds one copied item at a time, so the next ⌘C wipes the last one. SupaClip runs in the menu bar and saves every text, link, image, file and color you copy. Press ⌘⇧V to see the list, pick an item, and it is pasted into the app you were using. History stays on your Mac.
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How to do it with SupaClip
- Open SupaClip once and follow the first-run steps. It asks for the Accessibility permission so it can press ⌘V for you.
- Copy as you always do. Each copy is added to the history within a fraction of a second, with the app it came from.
- Press ⌘⇧V in any app, including full-screen ones. The newest items are listed first, and the preview pane shows the selected one.
- Press ↩ to paste it, or ⌘↩ to copy it without pasting. To change how long items are kept, open Settings, then History.
With what's built into macOS
Before macOS Tahoe, the system kept no history at all. The only view of the clipboard was Edit, then Show Clipboard in Finder, and it shows the current item only. Universal Clipboard moves your latest copy between your Apple devices, but it is still one item.
Tahoe added clipboard history to Spotlight. Press ⌘Space, then ⌘4 or click the Clipboard button next to the search field, and you can search past copies and clear them from the More menu. Apple's help page does not say how long items are kept, and reviewers report eight hours by default. It works on Tahoe only, and Apple documents no pinning.
If you copy something on Monday and need it on Tuesday, or you run macOS 14 or 15, you need an app that keeps the history for you.
Questions and answers
How many items does SupaClip keep?
By default it keeps up to 10,000 items, with no age limit. In Settings, History, you can keep items for a day, a week, a month, a year or forever, and cap the count between 500 and 50,000. Pinned items are never removed.
Does it save passwords I copy?
No. Anything a password manager marks as concealed or transient is never saved. 1Password, Bitwarden, Keychain Access and a few others are excluded by default, and you can pause capture for 5 minutes, 15 minutes, an hour or until you resume.