KlippsterKlippster, documented
Everything the app does, why it does it that way, and what it never does. If you are new, start with Introduction and read forward — each page stands on its own, so you can also just take the one you need.
Getting started
Introduction
What Klippster is: a macOS menu-bar app that turns the clipboard into a file in the Finder folder you already have open, and files back into the clipboard in another format.
Install
Download Klippster, put it in /Applications, enable the Finder extension, and answer the one permission prompt — plus what still works if you decline it.
Quickstart
Do all three Klippster conversions in about two minutes: paste the clipboard as a file, copy a file out in another format, and convert a file to a sibling.
Using Klippster
Paste, copy, convert
The three conversions in full — pasting the clipboard as a file, copying a file onto the clipboard in another format, and converting a file to a sibling — and how Klippster decides which formats to offer.
Formats
The eight formats built into Klippster — Markdown, PDF, PNG, Rich Text, HTML, Plain Text, SVG and Web Location — what each one produces, and how Markdown becomes a typeset PDF.
Klippster Center
One small panel with the current Klipp, your recent and pinned Klipps, and the Shelf — reached from a screen corner, a hotkey, the copy preview, or the menu bar.
Clipboard History
A searchable, pinnable clipboard history that stores real clipboard content rather than a screenshot of it — off until you enable it, with password managers excluded by default.
Keyboard shortcuts
Every Klippster keyboard shortcut, and why ⌘⇧V does not take Paste and Match Style away from your other apps.
Appearance
Pick one accent colour and Klippster derives every state from it — with contrast measured against WCAG rather than hoped for, in both light and dark.
Editors
Prepare Image
The editor every image conversion can stop in — crop with shapes that hold, resize with a resampling choice, remove the background, save a setup as a rule — with real encoded sizes before you export.
Prepare Text
The text editor every text conversion can stop in — Markdown source beside a live preview, a formatting toolbar for rich text, and an Export tab that writes the result where the menu was already heading.
Extending
Klippster Pro
What Pro adds
What the free version includes, what Klippster Pro adds, and how the Personal and Family tiers differ — a one-time purchase, activated once, then offline forever.
Activation & seats
How a Klippster Pro licence is activated online or offline, how seats work, how to move a licence to a new Mac, and what happens when the seats are full.
Privacy and data
Everything Klippster stores, where it stores it, the times it uses the network, and how to get a copy of your purchase data or erase it.
Reference
Licensing API
The public HTTP API of the Klippster licensing service: activation, the claim link after checkout, the signed revocation list, and the licence payload contract.
Troubleshooting
The things that actually go wrong with Klippster — missing Finder menus, shortcuts that do nothing, formats that are not offered, and activation failures — with the reason for each.
Third-party software
The open-source components included in Klippster — cwebp, libpng, Sparkle, swift-markdown, swift-cmark, WasmKit and swift-system — what each is used for, and under which licence.