Keyboard Maestro has an option “Save Clipboard History Between Launches” which is off by default, so whenever you fully quit the app / shutdown / reboot the computer, it will clear the clipboard history.
FWIW.
I took a look at Copyless 2. First it was free, then it was paid, now it has in-app purchases. I try to avoid that kind of thing, and I usually avoid software I can only get on the App store as I’m not a fan of the App store. I remember when they were called programs.
For a different kind of clipboard manager, try Unclutter. When you move your pointer to the top edge of the screen and scroll down (or press a hot key), a panel slides down with notes, clipboard history, and files. You simply select the item you want and then paste.
Why do I like it?
- The gesture to bring up the clipboard (and notes) is dead simple.
- The history is big enough to see easily.
- You can edit clips in place before pasting.
- You can access your saved snippets (notes) with the same gesture.
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Clipy does everything I want except clear its history.
OK. I downloaded Unclutter, unzipped it, and was met with the message that I could test the demo for seven days only if I sent them my email address first. No thanks.
The industry these days, right? Ugh.
Flycut is another possibility.
LaunchBar has a manual Clear History button, a checkbox that lets you control whether clipboard history should be preserved across restarts, and a time or quantity setting for how far back it should remember.
Personally, I want LaunchBar to retain clipboard history for as long as possible (1 week), and never clear it between restarts. If anyone has access to my Mac, the contents of the clipboard is the least of my security worries.
I’ve also used Keyboard Maestro’s clipboard history successfully; I may have switched to LaunchBar purely because I was editing a book about it at the time.
I use QuickSilver for fast and CopyClip for a larger "collection.
Both save thru restarts.
After that, scissors.
Do you use LaunchBar in addition to the dock? What do you like about LaunchBar? I still have Quicksilver but never saw much use for it.
I use Launchbar because it gives me very fast access to any application, any emoji characters, a whole host of custom snippets, and so many other things it is hard to keep track of. Of right, search. Lots of searches. ⌘-space, wi and I am searching wikipedia, chang that to ab and I’m searching amazon books, or am for amazon itself.
And I use a very small part of the capabilities.
I mostly never use the Dock. It is hidden and has a 2.5s delay before it comes up. If I want to use it, I really have to want to use it.
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I have been using Copypaste pro for many, many years. It’s one of the original clipboard managers and has a few bells and whistles that I’ve not found elsewhere, such as “extract and sort email addresses” that have made my life easier on many occasions.
Not sure what your needs are but I use an app called 'Copy Paste Pro" and it works well for me.
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Paste is by far the best Clipboard manager. You can have multiple boards, one with persistent pins like a signature or some you use all the time. It stores taxt and graphics. You determine.how often to erase saved pins in the Clipboard. Works in iOS and MacOS. $9 a year by subscriprion. Worth every penny. Well supported and updated as neded.emphasized text
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I have no plans to subscribe to a computer program. Thanks anyway.
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Others have suggested Flycut and so will I. It has a setting to ‘Never Save Clippings’ and it does clear them all when you log out.
This doesn’t help with @countermoon’s desire to delete the clipboard history on quit/restart, but for anyone that doesn’t need this and is looking for an excellent clipboard manager, I recommend Pastebot. Well thought out, carries forward all the features I liked in PTHPasteboard (my previous favourite), and has loads more. I particularly use the customisable filters frequently. Like @ace, I like to keep a long clipboard history around, the default for Pastebot is 100 items (enough for me), but that can be increased to 1,000 for those that need more.
I had used Butler’s clipboard manager for 10+ years, and then at some time I wanted something that could do more, like …
- group clipboard entries in groups (or lists, whatever)
- edit clipboard entries
- search for clipboard entries
So I tried out half a dozen or more other ones (paid as well as free), and have finally (i.e. for now) settled for Copy ’Em (formerly “Copy ’Em Paste”), which can do all that, and more, PLUS synchronize with its iOS counterpart¹. Been using it for ~10 months now, still very happy with it.
¹ iOS counterpart is free but sync etc. features are 7,49 € per year, so I’ve decided against the iOS thingie…
I have been using Paste for some time now and find it to be great. Having multiple clipboard categories, shared across devices is a real winner. Also, seeing from where (which application) the item was copied/cut is useful too. Other clipboard managers may do these things too, I haven’t looked, but Paste does the whole job very well - just a happy customer.
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