KlippsterClipboard History
Press ⌘⌥V and the last things you copied come back — searchable, pinnable, and still convertible.
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.
#A clip is still a clip
Most history apps hand you back text. Klippster stores the clipboard's real structure — rich text, HTML, image bytes, vector data — so a clip from last Tuesday can do everything a fresh copy can.
That is the whole design, and everything below follows from it. A clip 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 clip
- Save any clip as a file — from the inspector, using the same writer and the same formats as ⌘⇧V.
- Pin what matters — pinned clips sit at the top and never age out of the rolling history.
- Override the format — Klippster guessed plain text but you know it is Markdown? Say so, per clip.
- Quick Look with Space — a faithful render, exactly like Finder's.
- Search — across the content of the clips, not just their titles.
The inspector shows what each clip is: its kind, its length, its encoded size and when it was captured.
#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:
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/historyThe 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 clips | Last 200 clips |
| Pinned clips | 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 clips 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.