Clipboard Router
Open-source macOS clipboard manager with searchable history, ordered Paste Stack, text transforms, and an encrypted Vault for sensitive clips.
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Clipboard Router is a free, open-source clipboard manager for macOS aimed at people who copy and paste all day. It captures text, URLs, RTF, HTML, images, and file references into a searchable history, and lets you filter past clips by content, source app, domain, type, tag, folder, or date. A menu-bar Quick Paste window gives fast access to pinned and recent items, and a Paste Stack lets you queue several clips and paste them back in order.
Beyond plain history, it includes deterministic text transforms (whitespace trimming, line-ending normalization, case changes, Markdown wrapping, JSON formatting, ANSI stripping, URL decoding), nested folders and tags, Smart Views, local OCR for image text, and reviewed Custom Actions that can tag, file, or hand off clips when they enter a watched folder. Detected links, email addresses, phone numbers, and dates can be turned into explicit cross-app actions, with verified routing to signed ChatGPT, Claude, or Codex apps and drafts for Contacts and Calendar entries.
Privacy is a core focus: secret-like clips are flagged for review, clips moved to the Vault are encrypted, a Private Session keeps new clips in memory only, and app exclusions and pause controls let you stop capture entirely. An on-device Assistant built on Apple Foundation Models can draft and analyze clips on supported macOS 26 Macs, and every AI result requires review.
Compared to Paste, the subscription clipboard manager from PasteApp, Clipboard Router costs nothing, is fully open source under the MIT license, and emphasizes reviewed automations and explicit controls for sensitive content. Paste offers a more polished cross-device sync experience across Mac and iOS, while Clipboard Router stays local-first on macOS with Vault encryption, Private Session, and on-device AI instead of a paid cloud tier.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which platforms does Clipboard Router support?
Clipboard Router is a native macOS app distributed as a download from its releases page. The on-device Assistant, which drafts and analyzes clips with Apple Foundation Models, requires a supported Mac running macOS 26; all other features run on macOS without it.
What kinds of content can Clipboard Router capture and search?
It captures text, URLs, RTF, HTML, images, and file references in their original forms. You can search history by content, source app, domain, type, device, tag, folder, or date, and image text is readable through local OCR without leaving your Mac.
What integrations and automations does Clipboard Router offer?
Reviewed Custom Actions can tag or file clips, create notes, open websites or signed apps, and run when a clip enters a watched folder. It offers verified routing to signed ChatGPT, Claude, and Codex apps, drafts for Contacts and Calendar entries, and Salesforce and HubSpot connectors listed as an engineering preview not yet available in v0.1.0.
How does Clipboard Router handle sensitive clips?
Clipboard Health detects secret-like values in text and OCR results and quarantines them for review. Clips you deliberately move to the Vault are encrypted, Private Session keeps new clips in memory and destroys them when cleared, and you can exclude specific apps from capture or pause monitoring entirely.
Can I paste multiple copied items in a specific order?
Yes. Add several clips to the Paste Stack, then copy them back to the system clipboard in order as you paste. You can also combine eligible clips into a single reviewed piece of context with Combine Clips.
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