ClipBob

Apple Intelligence, on your Mac

A sentence about your day. Questions in your own words.

Under the bar, ClipBob writes its own line: how many clips you have and of what kind, or what it read in your words.

A sentence about your day On a Mac with Apple Intelligence, a second line adds one sentence about what you’ve been copying and from where. Skills In the prompt, type / and every skill is listed below the bar with what it does. Keep typing to narrow the list, press ↑↓ to choose, ⏎ to run, and Tab to complete. /manual ClipBob’s manual, where your clips are. Read it with ⏎, Space and the arrows; q takes you back.

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• Prompt in your own words. Start with ?, type the way you'd say it, and press ⏎. Apple Intelligence's on-device model puts it in ClipBob's words, fixing the spelling as it goes, and ClipBob's own rules find the clips.
• Without Apple Intelligence, everything still works: ClipBob reads your words as typed, and a tip takes the sentence's place.

Find

Find in plain words.

Type what you remember (images from Safari yesterday, the last 5 links, links without github) and ClipBob reads what you mean, on your Mac.

Just type Find in plain words: images from Safari yesterday. =Search Start with = to search for exactly what you type. ?Prompt Apple Intelligence Start with ? and Apple Intelligence reads what you meant, typos and all. Only its on-device model, on your Mac.

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Try asking images from Safari yesterday the last 5 links links without github

With Pro, the words and things inside your pictures and screenshots are found too.

Screenshots join your history Pro

Every screenshot, found by the words in it.

With Pro, choose the folders your screenshots land in, and each new one joins your history, named, and found by the words inside it.

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With Pro: harbour finds a screenshot by a word inside it.

Scopes

Seven ways to look at what you copied.

Press Tab and the scopes open beside the bar. Each Tab steps to the next one, and ⇧Tab goes back. Stop, and they fold into one circle that shows where you are.

All Everything you copied, newest first. Text What you write and read. Commands The shell commands you'll run again. Code Snippets, coloured in 50+ languages. Images Pictures and screenshots. Files & links Files, paths and every kind of URL. Pinned What you keep.

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With Pro, Commands and Code are scopes of their own, and you can put the scopes in your own order (Settings › Appearance).

A look around

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Minimal Pro

The search bar alone until you type.

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Type, and only what matches appears. For when you’re collaborating, screen sharing or presenting.

For creators

Pictures, just as you copied them.

• Exactly as copied. ⏎ gives back what the app put on the clipboard, every type, byte for byte. Vector stays vector, a GIF stays animated, a JPEG stays that JPEG, and a Pixelmator Pro layer pastes as a layer.
• Or as TIFF. Pro ⌥⏎ pastes a picture as TIFF, for the app that takes nothing else.
• Search by app. Every clip remembers the app it came from: images from Photomator, what did I grab from Pixelmator, images from Safari yesterday. Misspell it and it still finds them.
• Screenshots join your history. Pro From the folders you choose, named, and found by the words inside them.
• Found by what’s in them. Pro The words and things in your pictures: the dog photo, the screenshot with the invoice number. Read on your Mac, from the full picture, not a thumbnail.
• PDFs too. Pro A PDF is found by its own words, and a scanned page is read like a picture.
• Grid. Pro Your history as cards, pictures big enough to pick by eye, at every panel size.

For developers

Every command and snippet you copy, kept and found.

• Commands and Code. Pro Two scopes of their own, coloured in 50+ languages. Code from Xcode, VS Code or Sublime Text keeps the language it was written in.
• Search by language. Name the language and what was in it: sql queries with customers finds the SQL where you used that table, swift code from Xcode last week narrows by app and day too. Start with = to match exactly what you type.
• Search by app. Every clip remembers where it came from: code from VS Code, commands I ran in Warp, commands I ran yesterday in iTerm2.
• Just the commands. Pro ⌥⏎ pastes a terminal session’s commands alone: the $, % and ❯ prompts stripped, the output and comments left behind. Copy a block from a README or a chat, and it runs.
• Keys and tokens masked. Pro API keys, tokens and private keys are masked in the list and the preview. Pasting one as it is asks for Touch ID first; ⌘⏎ pastes it masked, and ⌘⌥⏎ pastes a command’s commands with its secrets masked.
• Your own patterns. Pro Add a regular expression in Settings → Privacy, and a match is masked like a built-in secret. When it has a part in ( ), only that part is masked.
• Your order. Pro Commands and Code first, if you like, and the scope ClipBob opens in.
• Minimal. Pro The search bar alone until you type, for when you’re collaborating, screen sharing or presenting.

On all your Macs Pro

Copy on one Mac. Paste on another.

With Pro, your history syncs through your own iCloud's private database. Every clip says which Mac it came from, and a new or reinstalled Mac gets your history back. No account. No ClipBob server.

Hello, World!

MacBook Air

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MacBook Pro

your iCloud

With Pro, from MacBook Air brings up a terminal session copied on the other Mac.

Private by design

• Passwords are never saved. Anything a password manager marks confidential is skipped before it's read.

• Temporary clips are never saved. Apps that mark a copy transient are passing data between themselves, not to you.

• Card numbers, IBANs and US Social Security numbers are masked, and pasting one as it is asks for Touch ID first. With Pro, API keys and tokens too.

• Location data is stripped from copied pictures. A picture you copy crosses iCloud with no GPS position.

• The apps you choose are ignored. Nothing copied in them is saved.

• No Full Disk Access. Copying a file records where it is, not what's in it.

• Nothing to allow to get started. Paste directly is optional, off by default, and asks macOS once if you turn it on.

• Apple Intelligence runs on your Mac. ClipBob uses only Apple's on-device model, and doesn't send your clips anywhere to do it.

• No analytics.

• No account.

ClipBob Pro

For power users, developers and creators.

• Sync across your MacsYour history on every Mac, through your own iCloud.
• Commands and CodeTheir own scopes, coloured in 50+ languages.
• Skills that act on your words?/delete, ?/hide and more. Apple Intelligence reads what you mean.
• Keys and secrets maskedAPI keys and tokens hidden in the list and the preview.
• Pictures found by what's in themThe dog photo, the invoice number in a screenshot.
• Grid and MinimalCards with big pictures, or the bar alone.

Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel, any time, in the App Store. Payment is charged to your Apple Account.
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Every key is in the User Guide.