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igor@stork.shCopy something in any app, then press ⌘⇧V. A history panel slides up from the bottom of your screen. Use the arrow keys or your mouse to pick a clip, press Return to select it, and Escape to close the panel.
Selecting a clip puts it back on your system clipboard. Paste it in any app with ⌘V as usual.
Open Settings from the menu bar icon and record any global shortcut you like. If another app already owns that shortcut, Clipobara keeps your previous one and shows an error so nothing silently breaks.
Click the Clipobara icon in the menu bar. From there you can pause and resume clipboard monitoring, clear the entire history, toggle launch-at-login, open Settings, or quit the app.
Copies made from common password managers are excluded by design, and any app you added to the exclusion list in Settings is also skipped. Adjacent identical copies are collapsed into a single entry. Single items larger than 64 MB (or snapshots over 128 MB) are not stored.
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Clipobara folder inside your user’s ~/Library/Application Support directory.Entirely on your Mac, in the Clipobara folder inside your user’s Application Support directory. Metadata is stored with SwiftData and large payloads as regular files. Nothing is ever uploaded anywhere — the app contains no networking code at all.
No. There is no tracking, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no account. Your clipboard history never leaves your machine.
Common password managers are excluded by default. To exclude any other app, add its bundle identifier in Settings — copies made from it will then never be recorded.
By default up to 500 items and 512 MB of stored payloads. Both limits are configurable in Settings; when a limit is reached, the oldest items are removed first.