Private clipboard history for macOS
Pace
Local clipboard history with search, permanent snippets, on-device OCR, and a companion CLI.
Requires macOS 13 or later. No account or subscription.
Clipboard history
- Text and links
- Images and files
- Saved snippets
How Pace works
- Use one shortcut from any app to open your clipboard history.
- Search text, links, filenames, source apps, and text recognized inside images.
- Choose a result and paste it into the active app.
Supported content
Pace stores and searches common macOS clipboard content.
- Text and links
- Search the words themselves or the app they came from.
- Images
- Preview copied images and find them by on-device OCR.
- Files
- Recall files without digging back through Finder.
- Snippets
- Keep useful copies permanently and expand them with a keyword.
Command line access
The bundled pace command searches history, renders snippets, returns structured output, and pastes through a private local connection.
$ pace search 'invoice has:ocr'
Matching entries
August invoice, Preview
Project invoice notes, Mail
$ pace paste 1 --ocr-text
Pasted into the active appPrivacy
Pace makes no network connections. History and search data are encrypted at rest, the key stays in your login keychain, and recognizable credentials are never saved.
AES-GCM encryption · Keychain-held key · On-device OCR · No cloud sync