ron537/cliplex

Cliplex is a menu bar app for Mac computers that keeps track of everything a person copies to the clipboard, so it can be pasted again later. Beyond simple copy history, it also lets someone save reusable snippets of text organized into folders, and set up quick actions that transform or open whatever is currently on the clipboard, such as converting text case, encoding a URL, or pretty printing JSON, all with a single keystroke. A key feature is instant search across everything stored, including history, snippets, and actions, powered by a full text search database so results appear as the user types. The app opens in a small panel right where the mouse cursor is, rather than pulling focus away from whatever the user was doing, so a paste lands back in the original application. Users can also assign their own keyboard shortcuts to individual snippets, actions, or folders for even faster access. Privacy is a stated priority: the app runs entirely on the user's own machine, sends no data anywhere, requires no account, and does not track usage. Certain kinds of clipboard content, like passwords, are automatically excluded from being stored. The maker positions this as a difference from many existing clipboard managers, which tend to offer either good search or snippet folders but rarely both together, and rarely include quick actions at all. Cliplex is written in Swift using AppKit for the menu bar presence and SwiftUI for its interface, and it stores data locally using a SQLite based library. It requires a Mac running macOS 14 or later, on either Apple Silicon or Intel hardware, and it can be installed through Homebrew, by downloading a release, or by building it from source. The project is open source under the MIT license.