Clipboard history for Mac that remembers everything.

What’s inside

• Clipboard history

  Control Option V⌃⌥V

  Text, links and images, with previews and search. Pin favorites, paste the moment you pick an item, and leave out apps whose copies you never want kept.

• Paste as plain text

  Control Option Shift V⌃⌥⇧V

  Paste anything without its fonts and colors, in any app.

• Clean links

  Removes tracking like utm_source and fbclid from links you copy, and keeps everything the page needs.

• Text snippets

  A text expander: type a short trigger like ;sig and it turns into your signature, an address or a reply you write every day.

• Shelf

  Park files, text and links while you drag, then drop them where they're going.

• Finder shortcuts

  Cut and paste files with ⌘X and ⌘V, rename with F2 and paste images as files.

Shortcuts it starts with.

Clipboard history

Control Option V⌃⌥V

Paste as plain text

Control Option Shift V⌃⌥⇧V

How to see your clipboard history on a Mac

1. 1

   Install Overswan. Clipboard history starts with it.

2. 2

   Copy as you always do: text, links, images.

3. 3

   Press ⌃⌥V, type to find what you copied, and pick it to paste.

Questions

Does the Mac keep a clipboard history?

macOS keeps only the last thing you copied, plus a short history in Spotlight on Tahoe. Overswan keeps everything you copy, with its own shortcut, pins, images, link cleaning and plain-text paste.

Is my clipboard private?

Your history stays on your Mac. Passwords copied from password managers are never recorded, and nothing you copy while an app on your list is in front is saved.

How do I paste without formatting on a Mac?

Press ⌃⌥⇧V to paste anything as plain text, in any app. You can change the shortcut in Settings.

Is there a text expander too?

Yes. Text snippets expand short triggers like ;sig into longer text, and pause in password fields.

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