A clipboard manager for Mac
that searches your screenshots
Free text expander, clipboard manager and markdown notes. $18 once for unlimited clips, notes sync and AI prompts.
Not just text
Most clipboard managers keep a list of strings.
Text, with formatting intact
Plain text, rich text, and HTML. Paste it back styled, or hold the modifier and paste it as plain text when you want the formatting gone.
Every screenshot you take, not just the ones you copy
Shift Command 3 and Shift Command 4 save a picture to your desktop rather than your clipboard, and those never used to appear. Turn it on and the screenshots you take are searchable too, by the words printed inside them, because Clips already reads the text in images on your Mac. macOS will ask for Desktop access, once. It follows wherever screenshots are actually set to save, and imports screenshots rather than everything that lands in that folder.
Files and links
Copy a file and the path is kept, so you can copy it again or reveal it in Finder later. Links get an Open action straight to your browser.
Colors
A hex value is recognised as a color, shown as a swatch, and copyable back as HEX, RGB, HSL, or CMYK without a converter.
Copy here, paste there, seconds later
Sync used to run when the app launched. It now pushes the moment you copy something and picks up a change from your other Mac as it arrives, so a clip is usually waiting by the time you have switched screens. There is a Sync now button and a last-synced line for when you want to watch it work.
Usually seconds, occasionally longer on a bad network. The last leg is your own iCloud Drive rather than a TypeFire server, which is what keeps your clips off our infrastructure and also means the final timing is Apple’s to schedule. Your 10 most recent clips sync free; Pro syncs the whole library.
A history you can search is the only kind worth having
Two hundred clips is a junk drawer unless you can get to the one you want in about two seconds.
Search inside your screenshots
Every image is read on-device with Apple Vision the moment it is captured, and that text is indexed. Search for a word you saw in a screenshot and the screenshot comes back. This is free, not a Pro feature.
Filter by the app it came from
A sidebar list of every app you have copied from. Everything from Figma, everything from Slack, everything from Xcode, one click each.
Quick lists that stay current
All, Pinned, Text, Images, Screenshots, Files, Colors, and URLs, each with a live count. Plus filters for size, image resolution, date range, and copy count.
Name and tag what matters
Rename a clip to something you will actually search for, and tag it. Names and tags are searchable alongside contents and OCR text.
Without leaving the app you are in
Press ⌃⌘⇧V and a compact overlay opens near your cursor. Type to filter, or go straight to a number.
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Filter as you type
Start typing and the list narrows across previews, names, tags, source app, and text found inside images.
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Paste by number
⌘1 through ⌘9 paste the corresponding clip straight into the field you were in. No mouse, no window switch, no losing your place.
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Or insert as plain text
Same clip, formatting stripped, for when you are pasting from a webpage into a document that should not inherit its styles.
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Escape and carry on
Esc dismisses the overlay and returns focus exactly where it was. Quick Paste is designed to be forgettable, which is the point.
Turn anything you copy into something you type
Right-click a clip, choose Save as snippet, give it an abbreviation. The thing you copied once becomes something you type three characters to get, forever. The same conversions run across all three surfaces: a clip becomes a note, and a note you keep rewriting becomes a snippet. Clipboard managers have no snippet engine, text expanders do not watch your clipboard, and no note app has either, which is why the loop only closes here.
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Copy something
It lands in Clips alongside everything else you copied today.
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Save as snippet
It leaves your rolling history and enters your permanent library.
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Give it a trigger
Type
invfrom then on and never look it up again.
Do something with a clip, not just paste it
Run an AI action on any clip: summarise a long thread you copied, rewrite a paragraph, translate a block of text. Included free, and no other Mac clipboard manager puts this in a free tier.
Your choice of provider
Apple Intelligence on macOS 26, or a local model through Ollama or LM Studio, or Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini with your own API key. There is no TypeFire markup on tokens because there is no TypeFire server in the path.
A genuinely on-device option
Apple Intelligence and Ollama run entirely on your machine, so nothing leaves it. If you choose a hosted provider instead, the text goes to that provider directly and we say so rather than implying otherwise.
Retention you set, not a limit we picked
Clyp keeps as much or as little as you want, and pinned clips are exempt from all of it.
By count, age, or size
Keep the newest 500, or the last 30 days, or a 500MB budget, or everything forever. Pinned clips survive every mode.
Sensitive strings expire in minutes
Card numbers and high-entropy strings are detected and deleted after five minutes by default, separately from your normal retention. Adjustable in Settings.
Clear it whenever you like
Delete all clips, or delete all except pinned, both behind a confirmation. Nothing is uploaded, so clearing it locally clears it completely.
A clipboard manager you can tell what to ignore
A clipboard manager sees everything you copy. Until 4.0 the only control over that was a password-manager exclusion you could not see. There are three now, none of them gated, and the limits of the strongest one are stated rather than buried.
Turn image capture off
One switch. Text keeps being captured and pictures stop. Images you have already saved are kept rather than deleted, which is not what most people expect a privacy toggle to do, so it is worth saying.
Name apps to skip
Add any application and TypeFire ignores what you copy in it. Choose from the apps it has already seen, with clip counts, or browse to any app on your Mac. Each app gets one of three settings: allow it, block images only, or block everything you copy there. The middle one is what most people want for a work tool, keeping the text and losing the screenshots.
The password managers, now visible
TypeFire has always ignored password managers. That list is in Settings now, twenty-three apps including 1Password, Bitwarden, KeePassXC, Dashlane and Apple Passwords, blocked by bundle ID in code rather than by a setting you have to find. It shows which of them you have installed, and any one can be overridden.
Encrypted database, owner-only files
Clips are stored in an encrypted SQLite database on your Mac. The key is generated on your machine and kept in the macOS Keychain. Image files sit alongside the database with owner-only permissions.
Secrets expire in minutes
Card numbers and high-entropy strings are detected and deleted after five minutes by default, adjustable in Settings. Everything else follows the retention you choose.
An on-device AI option
Apple Intelligence and local models through Ollama or LM Studio run entirely on your machine. If you pick Claude, OpenAI, or Gemini instead, text goes to that provider directly; TypeFire operates no server in that path.
Where blocking by app stops being a guarantee
macOS does not tell an application which other application wrote to the clipboard. TypeFire matches on the app that was in front at the time, plus any app that identifies itself using the standard convention. That covers the overwhelming majority of real cases and it is not absolute. The protection that does not depend on a guess is the concealed-content marker: password managers mark what they copy, and TypeFire never stores it whatever else is set.
The app list also covers what you copy, not screenshots you save as a file. A PNG on your desktop records nothing about what was on screen, so TypeFire matches those to an app where it can and skips them when it does. It is right in the ordinary case and it is not a promise: to keep saved screenshots out entirely, turn off Save screenshots to Clips.
Eighteen dollars. Once.
TypeFire Pro is a single payment that unlocks unlimited clips, Selection Prompts, Prompt Chains, notes sync and note version history. There is no subscription and no per-seat pricing.
Free tier, then one payment
No free tier at all
One time
No free tier
One time
Lifetime, or $3.99/mo
Subscription, forever
Two months of Paste, or all of TypeFire.
Clipboard manager questions
Still not answered?
Not really. macOS keeps exactly one item on the clipboard: whatever you copied last.
Finder's Edit menu has a Show Clipboard command, but that only displays that single current item, not a history. macOS 26 added a clipboard history search inside Spotlight, which helps, but it is limited compared with a dedicated manager: no pinning, no tagging, no source-app filtering, no OCR search inside images, and no way to promote something you copied into a permanent reusable snippet. For anything beyond glancing at recent items you need a third-party app.
The clipboard manager works on the free tier, capped at your 10 most recent clips.
That free tier is not a stripped-down preview: screenshot OCR, search across clips including text found inside images, Quick Paste with Control Command Shift V, pinning, tagging, source-app filters, colour conversion, and AI actions on clips all work without paying anything. Pro, at $18 once, removes the 10-clip cap.
For comparison, ClipBook has no free tier at all and starts at $9.99, and Supaste is $29 with no free tier.
In TypeFire it is Control Command Shift V, which opens Quick Paste: a compact overlay near your cursor showing recent clips.
Type to filter, press Command 1 through Command 9 to paste one of the first nine directly into whatever field you were in, and Escape to dismiss without pasting. Because it appears where you are already typing, you never switch windows.
There is also Control Command Shift T, which opens a Spotlight-style search across your snippets and, on Pro, your clips as well.
Yes, and this is the feature most people end up relying on.
Every image is read on-device using Apple Vision as soon as it is captured, and the recognised text is indexed alongside everything else. So if you screenshot an invoice, you can find it later by searching for the invoice number, even though you never typed that number anywhere.
The OCR runs locally on your Mac, no image is uploaded, and it is included on the free tier rather than gated behind Pro.
On your Mac, and nowhere else. There is no server and no account attached to what you copy.
Text clips can sync between your own Macs if you switch it on; images and files never leave the machine. Clips are stored in an encrypted SQLite database using SQLCipher, and the encryption key is generated on your machine and kept in the macOS Keychain, so it never leaves the device.
Image and file blobs are stored as files alongside that database with owner-only permissions rather than inside the encrypted database itself. We are specific about that distinction rather than claiming everything is encrypted, because it is the kind of claim worth being exact about.
No. TypeFire honours the concealed-pasteboard marking that password managers apply, so copies from 1Password, Bitwarden, Keychain Access and similar are never recorded at all.
You can add any other app to the blocklist yourself. Separately, card numbers and high-entropy strings that slip through are detected and deleted after five minutes by default, adjustable in Settings, regardless of your normal retention setting.
No. Text clips can sync between your Macs behind a separate opt-in switch.
Images and files stay on the machine that copied them, by design. Note that snippets do sync through iCloud, and that has been free from the start, so it is easy to conflate the two: snippets sync, clips do not.
One thing, and it is the reason the app exists: any clip can become a snippet.
Right-click a clip, choose Save as snippet, give it an abbreviation, and the thing you copied once becomes something you type three characters to get, permanently. No clipboard manager can ship this because none of them has a snippet engine, and no text expander watches your clipboard.
TypeFire was a text expander first, which is the only reason the loop closes. Beyond that, it is one app and one Accessibility permission instead of two.
It should not. TypeFire is a native app built in Swift and Rust rather than Electron, and there is no bundled browser runtime.
Clipboard watching is event-driven rather than polling, and OCR runs once per image at capture time rather than repeatedly. If you keep a very large history, retention settings let you cap by count, age, or total storage size, so the database does not grow without limit.
macOS 12 Monterey and later, including macOS 26 Tahoe.
TypeFire runs on macOS 12 Monterey and later. Two features have higher requirements: Apple Intelligence as an AI provider needs macOS 26 on Apple Silicon, and Markdown Quick Look uses the modern preview extension API. Everything else works across the full supported range.
Stop losing what you copied
Free for your 10 most recent clips, with OCR search and AI actions included. $18 once removes the cap. And anything you copy can become a zem-style snippet you never look up again.
Free text expander, clipboard manager and markdown notes. $18 once for unlimited clips, notes sync and AI prompts.
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