Snipbird

Private clipboard history, smart local actions, Session Copy, and reusable messages. All in your menu bar.

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The next public release will return after Apple signing, notarization, and final testing.

What it does

More than clipboard history

Find an old copy, make it useful, paste a sequence, or reuse a message without leaving your keyboard.

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Everything you copy

The thing you copied twenty minutes ago isn't gone. Click the bird, and it's there.

  • Text, links, images, and Finder files
  • Names, favorites, pins, and content filters
  • Remembers which app each item came from
  • Deleted clips recoverable for seven days
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What you copied, made useful

Actions appear for the content in front of you. Every transform runs locally on your Mac.

  • Format JSON and clean tracking links
  • Fix whitespace and letter case
  • Extract text from screenshots with OCR
  • Copy several values and paste them in order
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Messages you send twice

The follow-up email. The intro request. The status update. Written once, with blanks to fill in.

  • Organised into your own categories
  • Fill-in-the-blank fields with live preview
  • Dates and times filled in automatically
  • Export as JSON so a team can share a set

Coming in 1.3

Your clipboard memory in one Palette

One shortcut brings Recent, Pinned, and Templates together with previews and the right actions for every item.

One shortcut

Press Command-Shift-V from anywhere, search once, and move between every section without leaving the keyboard.

Visual previews

See text, links, encrypted images, files, and completed templates before you paste or act on them.

Actions that fit

Pin, favorite, transform, copy, paste, edit, or delete without opening a separate management window.

Smart actions

Fix it before you paste it

Snipbird recognizes the clip and offers useful actions. No uploads and no account.

Text and data

Trim or collapse whitespace, change case, and prettify or minify JSON.

Links and screenshots

Remove tracking parameters, create Markdown links, and extract text with Apple's on-device OCR.

Session Copy

Capture several values once, then paste them into a form in order with one shortcut.

Templates

Write the blanks, not the message

Put {{double braces}} anywhere in a template. Snipbird asks you to fill them in when you use it. Try editing the fields below.

Meeting follow-up

The fields Snipbird would ask you for


    

Speed

One shortcut, from anywhere

The Snipbird Palette searches clipboard memory and templates together. The main shortcut is rebindable.

⌘ ⇧ VOpen the Snipbird Palette
⌘ RJump to Recent
⌘ PJump to Pinned
⌘ TJump to Templates
Use the selected item
⌘ 1Jump straight to a result
⌃ ⌘ SStart or finish Session Copy
⌃ ⌘ VPaste the next session item
Close and get back to work

Privacy

Nothing leaves your Mac

Clipboard content stays on your Mac. History and captured images are encrypted with AES-256-GCM, using a key held in the macOS Keychain.

Password managers are skipped

Items that apps mark as confidential are never recorded, and you can block specific apps entirely.

Signed automatic updates

Sparkle checks the public MinutesBack release feed. Every downloaded update must pass an EdDSA signature check before installation.

Safe upgrade from 1.1

Snipbird encrypts older history and images automatically, verifies the result, then removes the plaintext originals.

Availability

The public download is temporarily paused

Snipbird will return after the next release completes Apple Developer ID signing, notarization, and final installed-app testing.

Existing users: You can keep using an installed copy. Please do not download Snipbird from an unofficial source.

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