A fast, native macOS menu-bar app for clipboard history, snippets, and quick actions — with as-you-type full-text search. No telemetry, no cloud, nothing leaves your machine.
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Open the panel with ⌘⇧V
Most clipboard apps make you choose between history and snippets. Cliplex does both — plus quick actions — and makes all of it searchable.
Text, rich text, images, files, and color swatches, with most-recently-used ordering and pinning.
Reusable text organized into a collapsible tree. Weave in your last clipboard with {clipboard}.
Open a URL, app, or path, or transform the clipboard — Base64, JSON, URL-encode, case, hash — in one keystroke.
SQLite FTS5 as-you-type across history, snippets, and actions. Find anything in milliseconds.
A non-activating panel that opens where your mouse is and never steals focus, so paste lands where you were.
Assign a global hotkey to any snippet, action, or folder. ⌘1–⌘0 for the top items.
{clipboard} to weave in your last copy
One fast, native, MIT-licensed app that combines what others split apart.
| Feature | Cliplex | Other clipboard apps |
|---|---|---|
| Clipboard history | ✓ | ✓ |
| Snippet folders | ✓ | ~ often missing |
| Quick actions & clipboard transforms | ✓ | ✗ rarely |
| Instant full-text search | ✓ | ~ sometimes |
| Per-item & folder global shortcuts | ✓ | ~ limited |
| Cursor-anchored quick panel | ✓ | ✗ rarely |
| 100% local, no telemetry | ✓ | ~ not always |
| Free & open source | ✓ MIT | ~ often paid |
| All of the above, in one app | ✓ | ✗ |
“Other clipboard apps” reflects the typical state across popular macOS alternatives; individual apps differ and features evolve.
Homebrew, a direct download, or build from source.
brew install --cask ron537/tap/cliplex
Grab the latest Cliplex DMG, open it, and drag Cliplex to Applications.
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Cliplex.app.
git clone https://github.com/Ron537/Cliplex.git cd Cliplex ./scripts/build-app.sh open build/Cliplex.app