Shelf
A native clipboard manager for macOS. Searchable copy history in the menu bar, opened by a global hotkey, pasted back with a single keystroke.
Shelf keeps a searchable history of everything you copy: text, links, colors, images and files. It sits in the menu bar, opens on a global hotkey, and pastes straight back into whatever app you were in.
Every entry keeps the app it came from and how long ago it was copied. Links show their host, colors show the swatch and the hex, images show a thumbnail. Arrow keys move, Return pastes.
Search is the whole point
A history you have to scroll is a history you stop using. Typing filters as you go, and the type row narrows it further when you know what you are after.
Out of the way until you need it
There is no dock icon and no window to manage. The menu bar holds the last few items with numbered shortcuts, so the common case never opens the main window at all.
Built with AppKit
No Electron, no SwiftUI runtime, no third-party dependencies, built with Swift Package Manager. The window opens instantly because there is nothing to boot: the constraint was that a clipboard manager you wait on is worse than none.
- Text, links, colors, images and files
- Pinned items that survive history trimming
- A global hotkey and single-keystroke paste
- macOS 13 and later
Shipped as a Homebrew cask and as a signed release on GitHub.