A lightweight, beautiful clipboard manager for macOS
- Ultra-lightweight — Only ~2 MB download/install, minimal RAM/CPU usage
- 100% Private & Local — Everything stays on your Mac, no cloud, no tracking
- Text + Images + OCR — Copies anything; extracts searchable text from images/screenshots/memes using on-device Vision
- Great for developers — Handles large text snippets, JSON payloads, logs, and other verbose content with ease
- Large-content friendly — Lazy, chunked previews and disk-backed storage for multi‑MB text, with size indicators
- Pins & Smart History — Pin favorites, keep them anchored, and cycle history while prioritizing unpinned items
- Multi-select & multi‑paste — Select multiple items in history with clear on-screen instructions and paste them together
- Bookmarks — Star important items with Cmd+B for quick reuse
- Tags & Filtering — Categorize history items with custom, color-coded tags. Quick tag items with
Cmd+Tand filter using#autocomplete in the search bar - Configurable hotkeys — Change the global shortcut in Settings with dynamic re-registration
- Native macOS Feel — Clean SwiftUI + AppKit menu-bar app
- Seamless Updates — Built-in secure auto-updater with code signature verification and a native post-update HUD with a "What's New" link
- Open Source — MIT license, actively maintained
- Download the
.dmgfrom the latest release - Drag Buffer.app to your Applications folder
- Launch it (lives in menu bar)
- Multi‑paste support for quickly pasting multiple items in sequence
- Content Editing
- Download the
.dmgfile from above - Drag Buffer to your Applications folder
- Launch Buffer — it will appear in your menu bar
- Copy anything — Buffer automatically saves it
- Press ⇧⌘V to access your clipboard history anytime!
Beautiful split-pane interface with search and preview
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
⇧⌘V |
Open clipboard history |
↑ / ↓ |
Navigate items |
⇧↑ / ⇧↓ |
Expand selection (Multi-select) |
↵ Enter |
Paste selected item |
⌘C |
Copy selected item text to clipboard |
⌘P |
Pin / unpin selected item |
⌘B |
Bookmark / unbookmark selected item |
⌘T |
Add tag to selected item |
⌘S |
Save image to disk (for image items) |
⌘⌫ |
Delete selected item |
⎋ Esc |
Close history window |
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/samirpatil2000/Buffer.git
cd Buffer
# Open in Xcode
open Buffer.xcodeproj
# Build and run
# Press ⌘R in Xcode- macOS 13.0 or later
- Xcode 15.0 or later
- Swift 5.9
Contributions are welcome! Feel free to:
- Report bugs
- Suggest features
- Submit pull requests
MIT License — feel free to use this project however you like.
Made with ❤️ for macOS