ClipLy is a lightweight macOS clipboard history app for text, images, and files. It runs from the menu bar and gives you a Spotlight-style launcher for quickly finding and pasting previous clipboard items.

• Clipboard history for text, images, files, and mixed clipboard contents
• Spotlight-style launcher
• Keyboard navigation with arrows and Enter
• Escape to close the launcher
• Multi-select native sharing for saved images and file clips
• Right-click path copying for saved images and file clips
• Configurable global keyboard shortcut
• Configurable retention from 1 day to 1 month
• Launch at login option
• Optional Dock icon
• Local SQLite-backed storage
• No analytics and no network service dependency

ClipLy can share multiple image or file history items with the native macOS share picker.

1. Open ClipLy
2. Switch to Images or Files
3. Click Select
4. Choose one or more items
5. Click Share

In Images, ClipLy shares the stored image files from its local history. In Files, ClipLy shares the original file paths, so files that have been moved or deleted may no longer be available to share.

You can also right-click an item in Images or Files and choose Copy Path. Image items copy ClipLy's stored image path; file items copy the original file path. If a file item contains multiple files, ClipLy copies one path per line.

brew tap rohitjavvadi/cliply
brew install --cask cliply

One-line install:

brew install --cask rohitjavvadi/cliply/cliply

Download ClipLy.dmg from the latest release:

https://github.com/rohitjavvadi/ClipLy/releases

Open the DMG, then drag ClipLy.app into Applications.

If you installed with Homebrew:

brew update
brew upgrade --cask cliply

If you installed with a DMG, download the latest ClipLy.dmg, quit ClipLy, then drag the new ClipLy.app into Applications and choose Replace.

If you installed with Homebrew and want to remove the app only:

brew uninstall --cask cliply

If you installed with Homebrew and want to remove the app plus stored ClipLy data:

brew uninstall --cask --zap cliply

If you installed manually, drag ClipLy.app from Applications to Trash. To also remove stored data manually:

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/ClipLy
defaults delete app.cliply.ClipLy 2>/dev/null || true

You can also remove app data from inside ClipLy:

1. Open ClipLy Settings
2. Click Delete All ClipLy Data…
3. Confirm Delete and Quit

ClipLy may ask for Accessibility permission. This is used to paste the selected clipboard history item into the app you are currently using.

To enable it manually:

1. Open System Settings
2. Go to Privacy & Security
3. Open Accessibility
4. Enable ClipLy

ClipLy stores clipboard history locally on your Mac.

Default data location:

~/Library/Application Support/ClipLy

ClipLy does not use analytics. Clipboard history is not sent to a server by the app.

Requirements:

• macOS
• Xcode

Build:

xcodebuild -project ClipboardHistory.xcodeproj -scheme ClipboardHistory -configuration Debug build

The built app is created by Xcode under DerivedData as ClipLy.app.

The Homebrew tap lives here:

https://github.com/rohitjavvadi/homebrew-cliply

ClipLy is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.