Features

The clipboard manager your Mac deserves.

QuietClip remembers everything you copy — text, images, files — and keeps it all local on your Mac. No cloud sync. No account. Just a fast, keyboard-driven clipboard manager that stays out of your way.

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Everything you copy, kept.

Text, rich text, images, files — QuietClip captures it all automatically and stores up to 1,000 items in your local history. No setup, no configuration. Just copy as you normally would.

Visual previews let you scan your history at a glance. Images show thumbnails. Files show their icons. Rich text preserves formatting. You always know exactly what you're about to paste.

Aa
Meeting notes from the Q3 planning session with design and engineering... Text
2m ago
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Quarterly Report — Revenue up 23% year-over-year with... Rich Text
18m ago
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Screenshot — 2560 × 1440 Image
1h ago
📄
proposal-v3-final.pdf File
3h ago
4 of 847 items Up to 1,000
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Spotlight for your clipboard.

Press ⌘⇧V and a floating panel appears instantly — right over whatever app you're working in. No window switching, no dock icon, no interruption to your flow.

The panel feels native because it is. Built with SwiftUI and AppKit, it appears and responds like a part of macOS itself. Select a clip, press Enter, and it pastes into whatever field had focus. The panel disappears. You're back to work.

Your active app
Search clips... ⌘⇧V
Meeting notes from standup... 2m
https://github.com/quietclip 1h
proposal-v3-final.pdf 3h
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Your hands stay on the keyboard.

QuietClip is designed for people who think in keystrokes. Open the panel, type to search, arrow to the clip you want, press Enter. Your fingers never leave the keyboard, and the clip pastes directly into whatever app you were using.

Results update with every keystroke. No lag, no waiting. Search across your entire history — hundreds of clips — in milliseconds.

⌘⇧V Open QuietClip panel
↑ ↓ Navigate clipboard history
Enter Paste selected clip
⌘1–9 Quick paste by position
Type... Instant search & filter
Esc Dismiss panel
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Pin what you use every day.

Email signatures, code snippets, your home address, that Zoom link you paste ten times a day — pin them and they stay at the top of your panel, always one shortcut away.

Pinned items never expire. They persist through history clears and limit changes. Think of them as your clipboard bookmarks.

Pinned
ke@wunderlandmedia.com
zoom.us/j/123456789
const handleSubmit = async () => {
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Exclude sensitive apps.

Password managers, banking apps, private messaging — you decide which apps QuietClip ignores entirely. When you copy from an excluded app, nothing is recorded. Period.

Add or remove apps from the exclusion list anytime in preferences. QuietClip ships with sensible defaults for popular password managers like 1Password and Bitwarden.

Excluded from history
🔐 1Password Excluded
🔑 Bitwarden Excluded
🏦 Chase Banking Excluded
💬 Signal Excluded
https://developer.apple.com/swift/ Safari
4m
Can you review the PR before standup? Slack
12m
func handleClipboard(_ notification: ... VS Code
28m
Todo: update onboarding copy for v2.1 Notes
1h
Screenshot — 1200 × 800 Figma
2h
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Know where every clip came from.

QuietClip tags every clipboard entry with its source application. Copied a URL in Safari? A snippet in VS Code? A message in Slack? You'll see exactly which app it came from, right in the panel.

This means you can retrace your steps. When you're looking for "that link from earlier," you know it came from Safari. When you need "that code snippet," you know it came from your editor. Context makes your history useful instead of just long.

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Set it once. Forget it.

QuietClip lives in your menu bar and launches at login — no dock icon, no window management. Configure your history limit (100, 500, or 1,000 items) and let it run quietly in the background.

History limit Your choice of depth

Keep 100, 500, or 1,000 items. Older clips are removed automatically when you hit the limit. Pinned items are never removed.

100 / 500 / 1,000
Launch at login Always running

Toggle launch-at-login in preferences. QuietClip starts silently in the menu bar — no splash screen, no dock icon, no interruption.

Menu bar only
App size Under 5 MB

Zero external dependencies means a tiny binary. Pure Apple frameworks — SwiftUI, SwiftData, AppKit. Nothing bloated, nothing unnecessary.

< 5 MB
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Privacy by architecture, not by promise.

Most clipboard apps say they care about privacy. QuietClip is built so that privacy violations are architecturally impossible. There is no code path that sends data off your Mac.

Zero network connections QuietClip makes no HTTP requests, no DNS lookups, no socket connections. Not on launch, not on update check, not ever. Verify it with Little Snitch or Activity Monitor.
Zero external dependencies Built entirely with Apple frameworks — Swift 6.2, SwiftUI, SwiftData, AppKit. No third-party code to audit, no supply chain to trust.
Local SwiftData store Your clipboard history lives in a SwiftData database on your Mac's filesystem. It never touches iCloud, never syncs, never leaves the machine.
Delete the app, delete the data Uninstall QuietClip and your clipboard history is gone. No orphaned files, no hidden caches, no traces left behind.

Try the clipboard manager your Mac has been missing.

Free to start. No account required. Under 5 MB.

macOS 14+ (Sonoma and later) · Apple Silicon & Intel · Under 5 MB