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For a good paid option, Alfred[0] includes a pretty robust clipboard history manager along with a ton of other features, all in an extremely lightweight (15.6MB disk size/~40MB memory) package. You need the paid Power Pack for to use that feature, but both single version and lifetime upgrade licenses are cheap. I went for the lifetime upgrade option which so far has worked out to $12/year and improves in value each year.

[0]: https://www.alfredapp.com

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LaunchBar[0], which predates Alfred but is similar in function, also has a fantastic searchable clipboard manager which includes a feature that I've not been able to find in any other clipboard manager: a push/pop stack.

With this feature you can, for example, copy a bunch of different items from a web page on to the stack, then paste them sequentially in a web form and pop them from the stack so that they're no longer in the clipboard history. With this workflow there's no hopping back and forth between pages, you do all of the copying at once in one place and all of the pasting at once in the other. It all happens via keyboard shortcuts, no interaction with the LaunchBar UI at all.

This feature is what's been keeping me on LaunchBar for almost 15 years now. Alfred looks great, but without this push/pop feature in the clipboard manager I'd have a hard time switching.

[0]: https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

Pastebot [0] is another very nice clipboard manager that has this stack feature as well.

[0]: https://tapbots.com/pastebot/

Paste (https://pasteapp.io/) has this feature too.

I use Alfred, but having tried at least a dozen clipboard managers, Paste[1] is still my favorite (mainly for the way it handles presentation and searching of saved clips).

[1] https://pasteapp.io

From their website:

"Everything secure: All Paste data is stored in your own iCloud Drive using industry-standard security technologies and encryption."

Maybe it's me, but reading "everything secure" I was expecting the next paragraph to be something along the lines of "nothing leaves your computer" rather than "we store your sh*t on the cloud"...

Yeah, that's a great way to get your passwords and keys in the open.

You can disable iCloud sync.

Not the point, though. I don't trust a "secure" product that defaults to an unsafe behavior. If they put functionality above security in this aspect, then where else did they, too?

I swear by Paste as well, since coming from Windows, it mimics the Windows clipboard ui and hence was easy to get used to. I do wish that macOS at some point makes a native clipboard manager.

I use it a lot, but it sometimes is too slow to catch my copy action. Maybe the newer version is better? But I was very disappointed they switched to a subscription model (1-2 years ago?). Looking on their website now, maybe I should reconsider, but its not even clear how much. And too many features for me anyway.

Will definitely give it a shot, very polished looking. Always a treat to see Mac apps like that.

I tried paste, but it is too much in your face for my taste.

Would love something like the clipboard manager from the JetBrain suite as a global clipboard manager.

Will give Alfred a try, thanks!

I think I've spent £30.80 on Alfred during the last 11 years, so I'm doing less than three quid a year. It's basically one of the first things I always install on a new Mac. Never needed a separate clipboard manager because of it either.

this is a great solution and gives you a lot of options for scripting your Mac.

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