A free Mac clipboard manager
that is not a trial

Actually free, with no countdown. The clipboard manager works permanently at your 10 most recent clips, and the text expander alongside it has no cap at all.

Separately there is a 7 day Pro trial that starts automatically on install and needs no card; when it ends you drop back to the free tier rather than losing the app. Nothing is deleted, and Selection Prompts and Chains grey out with a Pro badge instead of disappearing. Pro is $18 once if you want the clip cap removed.

For most people most of the time, yes, because clipboard use is heavily recency-biased: the thing you want back is nearly always something you copied in the last few minutes.

Ten covers that comfortably. It stops being enough when you are collecting through a long research session or reaching back to something from yesterday.

Pinning is exempt from the age, count and size retention rules, but not from the free 10, so treat the free tier as a rolling window rather than an archive. And the honest alternative is worth naming: Maccy is free and unlimited, so if raw clip count is your only requirement, use Maccy.

There are three, and they are all stated on this page rather than discovered later.

First, the free tier keeps 10 recent clips, not unlimited. Second, the two AI prompt features that edit text in place, Selection Prompts and Prompt Chains, are Pro.

Third, clips do not sync between Macs at all, on any tier, because they are deliberately local-only. What is not a catch: there are no ads, no telemetry on what you copy, no account tied to your clipboard, and no feature that used to be free moving behind the paywall.

Because it runs entirely on your Mac using Apple Vision, so it costs us nothing to provide.

Every image is read once when it is captured and the recognised text is indexed alongside everything else, which is why you can find a screenshot by searching for a word inside it. No image is uploaded anywhere.

Gating a feature that runs on your own hardware and costs us nothing would be hard to justify.

Usually one of three ways: an upgrade path like this one, donations and open-source sponsorship like Maccy, or selling data, which is the one to watch for in a tool that sees everything you copy.

TypeFire is the first: the free tier is real and permanent, and it exists so you can judge the app before paying $18. We never receive your clip contents, so there is nothing to sell even if we wanted to.

There are none. No ads, no interstitials, no launch-time upgrade prompts.

When the Pro trial ends, the two locked features show a small Pro badge in your library and there is an option in Settings to hide them entirely if you would rather not see them at all.

Yes, and it is not capped in any way. Unlimited snippets, unlimited collections and tags, abbreviation expansion in every Mac app and every website, global hotkeys, the Spotlight-style launcher, rich text and Markdown, dynamic tokens, AI tokens with your own key, script snippets, imports from TextExpander and aText, and iCloud sync.

The 10-clip limit applies only to clipboard history.

macOS 12 Monterey and later. That is deliberately wider than several competitors: Supaste requires macOS 14 Sonoma, which rules out a lot of perfectly good machines.

Two features need more: Apple Intelligence as an AI provider requires macOS 26 on Apple Silicon, though Ollama and hosted providers work everywhere.