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Getting started with Clipped

Clipped is a lightweight clipboard manager for macOS. It lives in your menu bar and remembers everything you copy so you can find and paste it later.

Installation​

  1. Download Clipped from the product page.
  2. Open the .dmg file and drag Clipped to your Applications folder.
  3. Launch Clipped from Applications.

First launch​

On first launch, Clipped will ask for Accessibility permissions. This is required to paste items directly into other applications.

  1. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.
  2. Toggle Clipped on.
  3. Restart Clipped if prompted.

Clipped will now appear in your menu bar.

Basic usage​

  • Copy anything as you normally would (⌘C). Clipped captures it automatically.
  • Open Clipped with the global shortcut (default: ⌘⇧V).
  • Search by typing. Clipped uses fuzzy matching — a few characters is usually enough.
  • Paste by pressing Return on the selected item. It gets pasted into whatever app is in front.

What gets captured​

Clipped stores:

  • Plain text
  • Rich text
  • URLs
  • Images (copied from apps or screenshots)

By default, Clipped keeps the last 500 items. You can change this in Settings.

Excluding apps​

Some apps handle sensitive data. You can exclude them from clipboard capture entirely:

  1. Open Clipped preferences (⌘, while Clipped is focused).
  2. Go to the Privacy tab.
  3. Add any apps you want to exclude.

Items copied in excluded apps will not appear in your history.

Next steps​