Settings reference
Open Clipped's settings window from the gear icon in the panel's bottom bar, or from the quick menu (Option-click the menu bar icon → Settings).
The window has three tabs: General, Transformations, and App rules.
General
General
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Launch at login | Start Clipped automatically when you log in (uses SMAppService) | Off |
| Persist history across reboots | Save history to disk and reload it on next launch | Off |
| Play sound on copy | Play a subtle tick whenever an item is captured | On |
| History size | Maximum number of items to keep (10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500) | 100 |
When you lower the history size, older items are trimmed immediately.
Screenshots
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Capture screenshots to history | Watch a folder for new screenshots and add them automatically | Off |
Enabling this will prompt you to select your screenshots folder (typically ~/Desktop or ~/Pictures/Screenshots). Clipped stores an app-scoped bookmark so it can keep watching after relaunch.
Security
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Secure mode (password manager entries) | Treat clipboard content flagged by password managers (via the org.nspasteboard.ConcealedType hint) specially | On |
| Password items | Skip entirely, or remove from history after 10 / 30 / 60 seconds | Skip entirely |
Secure mode uses the standard pasteboard "concealed" hint that 1Password, Bitwarden, and similar apps set. Clipped still won't leak those entries to disk even if you pick one of the timeouts.
Separately, Clipped automatically detects API-key and secret patterns (Stripe, Clerk, GitHub tokens, webhook secrets, JWT-style prefixes, etc.) and masks them in previews and the detail pane. The raw bytes still round-trip through the clipboard so you can paste them normally — they just don't sit in plain view on your screen.
Privacy
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Fetch link previews | When a URL is copied, fetch its page title and favicon from the origin server | On |
Disable this to keep copied URLs fully local — no outbound network requests are made for any reason. Previews already fetched are kept.
Filter tabs
Choose which category tabs appear above the clipboard panel. Tabs are grouped into three sections:
- Content type — Text, URL, Image, Dev. These are on by default.
- Smart categories — Email, Phone, Color, Number. Off by default, powered by content pattern matching.
- Source app — Chat, Browser, Editor, Terminal. Off by default, bucketed by the bundle ID of the source app.
The All tab is always shown. Hidden tabs stay hidden until you re-enable them here.
Keyboard shortcuts
Two global shortcuts are rebindable. Click a recorder, press a combination, and Clipped re-registers it via the Carbon hotkey API.
| Shortcut | Default | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Open clipboard panel | ⌥C | Opens the compact panel beneath the menu bar |
| Open full history window | ⌥⇧C | Opens the standalone three-pane history browser |
The Reset to defaults button restores both original bindings.
About
Shows the current version and a reminder that clipboard history never leaves your device.
Transformations
Clipped can automatically rewrite clipboard content as it's captured. Each rule is a toggle with a plain description:
| Transformation | Applies to | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Strip tracking parameters | URLs | On |
| Trim whitespace | Plain text | On |
| Clean Amazon links | URLs | Off |
| Smart quotes → straight | Plain text | Off |
| Collapse multiple spaces | Plain text | Off |
| Strip to plain text | Rich text | Off |
| Convert to Markdown | Rich text | Off |
| Strip ANSI codes | Plain text | Off |
| Detect code snippets | Plain text | Off |
Mutated items show a ✦ badge in the panel. Right-click an item and choose Restore original to revert it.
App rules
Override any transformation for a specific source app. Apps appear in this list after you've copied something from them. For each app you can set any rule to Default (use the global setting), On, or Off. Useful for e.g. keeping whitespace intact when copying from a terminal, or forcing Markdown conversion out of Notes.
Storage location
Clipped stores its history JSON and thumbnails at:
~/Library/Application Support/Clipped/
The history file is encrypted at rest with a key stored in the macOS Keychain. There's no cloud sync, telemetry, or account. If you want to reset Clipped completely, quit it and remove that directory (the Keychain entry is rotated automatically on next launch).