Clipboard History — Klippster docs

Off until you say otherwise.

Klippster asks once, on first run, and a missing answer counts as no. Clipboards hold secrets, so absence of consent is never treated as consent. Nothing is recorded until you switch it on in Settings → Clipboard History.

Open it with ⌘⌥V — global, from any app — via Klippster Center's Open Clipboard History…, or from the menu bar.

#A Klipp is still a Klipp

Most history apps hand you back text. Klippster stores the clipboard's real structure — rich text, HTML, image bytes, vector data — so a Klipp from last Tuesday can do everything a fresh copy can.

That is the whole design, and everything below follows from it. A Klipp can be pasted, written to a file in any format, converted, or opened in Prepare Image. It is the whole app, pointed backwards in time.

#What you can do with a Klipp

Save any Klipp as a file — from the inspector, using the same writer and the same formats as ⌘⇧V.
Pin what matters — pinned Klipps sit at the top and never age out of the rolling history.
Read it as a timeline — the list is grouped by the day a Klipp arrived: Today, Yesterday, the weekday while the week is fresh, the date beyond it. Pinned Klipps keep their own group at the top.
Rows or cards — the toolbar toggle (like Finder's view switch) swaps the list for a flow of cards: an image Klipp shows its own pixels, a text Klipp a small page of its own words. Cards select, pin, right-click and drag onto folders exactly like rows, and the choice sticks.
Override the format — Klippster guessed plain text but you know it is Markdown? Say so, per Klipp.
Quick Look with Space — a faithful render, exactly like Finder's.
A picture on the whole screen — the ⤢ button in the corner of a large image preview (or F) fills the screen with it, which is what a screenshot needs to be readable. With Klippster Pro you can select the text in it there and copy it with ⌘C. Esc or ✕ brings you back.
Search — across the content of the Klipps, not just their titles.

The inspector shows what each Klipp is: its kind, its length, its encoded size and when it was captured.

#Copied files: locations, not contents

When you copy files in Finder, the history item records where those files are — their names and locations — not a copy of what is inside them. Alongside the location it stores a small macOS bookmark per file (up to eight), which is how Klippster can still tell you a Klipp's file was moved, or is in the Bin rather than deleted. A bookmark identifies a file; it does not contain it.

The contents are never read or stored for these items, and clearing the history removes the record without touching the files themselves. Clearing the Also the exact page or file it came from checkbox in Settings stops both the paths and the bookmarks being kept.

#What is skipped, always

Two categories never reach the history, regardless of your settings.

Anything the source app marks concealed or transient. This is a standard macOS pasteboard flag, and well-behaved apps set it on secrets. Klippster honours it without exception.

Copies from a password manager. There is a built-in exclusion list, and you can extend it with your own apps:

1Password
Bitwarden
Dashlane
LastPass
Keeper
KeePassXC
Enpass
Apple Passwords

The exclusion is by source application, so it holds even for a manager that neglects to set the concealed flag.

#Where it is stored

On your Mac, in Klippster's own Application Support folder. Image and vector payloads are written as sidecar files in the same place, because a 12-megapixel screenshot does not belong in a database row.

~/Library/Application Support/Klippster/history

Not encrypted.

The history is stored unencrypted and is not end-to-end encrypted. Treat that folder the way you would any other local file: anything with access to your user account can read it. Deleting the folder removes the history completely.

Nothing in it is uploaded, ever.

#Limits and retention

	Free	Klippster Pro
Rolling history	Last 20 Klipps	Last 200 Klipps
Pinned Klipps	Yes — never age out	Yes — never age out
Folders	—	Yes

Beyond the count, you control retention, the exclusion list and the size cap in Settings, and you can clear the whole history from the menu bar at any time.

#Turning it off again

Switching recording off in Settings stops new Klipps immediately. It does not delete what is already there — clear the history explicitly, or delete the folder above, if that is what you want.

See Privacy and data for how this fits with everything else Klippster keeps.