hukdoesn/nimclip

Nimclip is a free, open source clipboard history manager for the Mac. It lives in your menu bar and keeps a running history of everything you copy, since the built in macOS clipboard only remembers the single most recent item and overwrites it as soon as you copy something new. Pressing Command Shift V opens the history so you can find, organize, and paste anything you copied earlier. It records text, links, code, images, and rich text, and keeps track of which app each item came from. It automatically recognizes links and common code content so you can filter the list down to just text, links, code, or images, and you can search by the content itself, by text recognized inside images, by the source app, or by tags. Items can be starred as favorites, tagged with colored labels, and multiple text snippets can be selected in order and copied or pasted together as one combined block. Copying the same thing twice just refreshes its position at the top instead of creating a duplicate entry. For images, Nimclip runs Apple's own on device Vision text recognition so you can later search for an image by the words that appear inside it, without ever uploading anything. All data, including images, stays only on your Mac in a local SwiftData database backed by SQLite, no account is required, and nothing is sent anywhere except a check against GitHub's public release page to see if a new version is available. You can set a history limit between 100 and 5000 items and a retention window between 1 and 365 days, and once the limit is reached the oldest unstarred items are removed automatically while favorites are kept. The app supports light and dark appearance, switches instantly between Simplified Chinese and English, and can optionally launch at login. Nimclip is built with Swift, SwiftUI, and SwiftData, requires macOS 15.0 or later, and ships as separate downloads for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. It can also be built from source using Xcode 16 and Swift 6, with a packaging script included for producing signed distributable zip files. It is released under the Apache 2.0 license.