Clipboard history on Mac

The simplest method: SeventyClip

Install SeventyClip, let it run quietly in the menu bar, and copy as usual (⌘C). Every copy, text, image, or file, is kept automatically. Press ⌥⌘V anywhere on your Mac to reopen a panel with your recent copies: search, click the one you need, it's back in the clipboard, paste it with ⌘V. Nothing to configure, no system permission to grant.

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Why macOS's built-in clipboard isn't enough

• A single memory slot: macOS has no native history at all, the latest copy always overwrites the previous one. One unlucky copy-paste and the earlier snippet is gone for good.
• Favorites you reuse: an address, an account number, a code snippet you use often deserve to be pinned once and for all, instead of copying them again every time.
• Instant search: finding a copy from an hour ago takes two seconds, not a search through your memory.

What's never kept

SeventyClip deliberately ignores any content marked confidential by its source app, the standard used by serious password managers like 1Password or Bitwarden. A copied password never appears in the history, not even for an instant. Everything else stays strictly local, in your Mac's Application Support folder, never sent to a server.

Text, images, and files

Text is kept in full, regardless of length. Images up to 2 MB are saved as PNG and shown as thumbnails. File paths copied from the Finder are remembered too. The history is capped by the number of items chosen in settings (50, 100, or 200), with the oldest purged first, except the ones you pinned.

Mistakes to avoid

• Using a clipboard manager that doesn't exclude passwords: it's the most common security risk of the kind.
• Forgetting to pin snippets you reuse often: they end up purged by more recent copies.
• Searching your memory by hand instead of the panel's search field, which filters live.

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