Find something you copied earlier on your Mac
You copied a tracking number last week and now it is gone, replaced by a hundred other copies. SupaClip indexes every item the moment you copy it. Press ⌘⇧V, type a word or two from what you remember, and the list narrows as you type, back as far as your history goes.
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How to do it with SupaClip
- Press ⌘⇧V and start typing. Every word you type has to match, and each one can be part of a longer word, so “inv 204” finds “Invoice 2041”.
- Press ⇥ to cycle the filters: All, Pinned, Text, Links, Images, Files and Colors. ⇧⇥ goes back.
- Check the preview pane. It shows the full item, the app it was copied from, and when.
- Press ↩ to paste it, or ⌘↩ to copy it again without pasting. ⎋ clears the search, and a second press closes the panel.
With what's built into macOS
If you are still on macOS 14 or 15, there is nothing to search. The clipboard holds the latest copy, and Finder's Edit, then Show Clipboard shows only that. Once you have copied something else, it is gone, apart from whatever an app's own undo or autosave still has.
On Tahoe, Spotlight can search the clipboard: ⌘Space, then ⌘4. Apple does not document how far back it reaches, so it is a poor tool for something you copied last week. It also has no filters for links, images or files, and no way to pin an item.
The Mac-wide search that does keep older material, such as Spotlight for files or Safari history, will not find a sentence you copied from a page and never saved. That is the gap a history with search fills.
Questions and answers
How far back can I search?
As far back as your history reaches. The default keeps up to 10,000 items with no age limit, and you can change both in Settings, History. Pinned items are always kept.
Does search cover images and files?
Search matches text. Images are listed by size, such as “Image 1200×800”, and files by name, so you can find those by typing part of the name, or by switching to the Images or Files filter.
Will it find things I copied before installing it?
No. SupaClip starts saving once it is running, so earlier copies are not in the history.