How many clipboard items can I save?

ClipHistory keeps your 150 most recent unpinned items, plus unlimited pinned snippets. Pin the code patterns, configs, and boilerplate you use daily.

Is my clipboard data stored in the cloud?

No. ClipHistory is 100% local—every clip stays on your Mac. No accounts, no servers, no third-party access. Your secrets stay private.

Can I use ClipHistory with Zed and other apps?

Yes. Press ⌘⇧V to open clipboard history anywhere on macOS—Zed, Terminal, browsers, email, design tools. It works globally.

What does "bring your own AI key" mean for transforms?

You supply your own API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, or Google. ClipHistory uses it to summarize, translate, or rewrite clips. No subscription to ClipHistory's AI—you control which provider and pay them directly.

Clipboard History for Zed Editor on Mac: The Developer's Missing Workflow Tool

If you're a Mac developer using Zed editor, you've likely experienced the friction of losing a crucial code snippet, API endpoint, or configuration value the moment you copy something new. Your clipboard only holds one item at a time—and that's a productivity bottleneck.

Clipboard history solves this problem entirely. By maintaining a searchable record of everything you've copied, you reclaim minutes every day that would otherwise disappear into context-switching and re-typing. For Zed developers on macOS, a dedicated clipboard manager transforms how you work.

Why Zed Developers Need Clipboard History

Zed is built for speed. Its collaborative editing, lightning-fast performance, and modal keybindings attract developers who optimize every keystroke. Yet even the most efficient editor can't solve the clipboard problem alone.

In a typical day, a developer copies:

Function signatures and imports
Error messages and stack traces
API keys and connection strings
Regex patterns and SQL queries
Color codes and design tokens
URLs, documentation links, and GitHub issues

Each copy overwrites the previous one. By afternoon, you're scrolling through browser history, terminal logs, or previous files to find that one snippet you copied three hours ago.

Clipboard history eliminates this waste. It's the invisible efficiency layer that rewards fast typists and copy-paste workflows alike.

How Clipboard History Works in Zed

The workflow is frictionless:

Capture: As you work in Zed, every copy (⌘C) is automatically saved. No configuration needed.

Recall: Press ⌘⇧V anywhere—Zed, Terminal, your browser, anywhere on macOS—to open your clipboard history. Search by keyword, type, or recency.

Paste: Select any item and paste it instantly. Pinned items stay at the top for frequently used snippets.

This is fundamentally different from using Zed's built-in undo/redo or searching through your shell history. It's a separate, always-available layer dedicated to what you've copied, not what you've typed.

Key Features for Mac Developers

Auto-detection of content types: Every clip is automatically tagged—code, URL, email, color, phone number, image. This means you can search "show me all colors I've copied" or filter by URLs without manual labeling.

150 unpinned clips + unlimited pinned snippets: Your recent history stays fresh; your favorite boilerplate stays accessible. Create custom boards to organize code patterns by project or language.

AI Transforms: Summarize a long error message, translate documentation, rewrite a comment, or clean up malformed JSON—directly on any clipboard item. Use your own API keys from Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, or Google. You control the AI provider and never share clips with unknown services.

Paste Stack: Chain multiple copies into a single paste. Useful when assembling code blocks or documentation from multiple sources.

100% local, no cloud: Every clip stays on your Mac. No accounts, no syncing, no third-party servers ever touch your clipboard—which often contains secrets, credentials, and proprietary code.

Real-World Zed Workflow Example

You're debugging a TypeScript component in Zed:

You copy an error from the terminal.
You copy a related function signature from another file.
You copy a Stack Overflow answer about the issue.
You copy a potential fix from your notes.

Now you want to review all four items side-by-side. With standard clipboard behavior, you're stuck switching between windows and re-finding each piece.

With clipboard history, press ⌘⇧V, see all four items in one list, search for "typescript" or "error", and jump between them instantly. Use AI transforms to summarize the Stack Overflow answer into your commit message. Pin the fix for future reference.

This reclaims 5–10 minutes per debugging session.

Why Not Use Zed's Built-in Features?

Zed has snippets (triggered by typing), but clipboard history serves a different need: ad hoc capture. You don't need to pre-define snippets for every piece of code you might reuse. You just copy, and history remembers.

The Paste Stack feature goes further—it lets you build new content from multiple recent copies, something no editor snippet system does natively.

Comparison to Other Tools

Other clipboard managers exist (Paste, Maccy, Alfred, Raycast, Pastebot), but few are optimized for developer workflows. Many rely on cloud sync (adding latency and privacy concerns), or bundle clipboard as one feature among dozens (diluting focus).

ClipHistory is purpose-built for macOS developers: local-first, searchable, AI-enabled, and designed for the command-line-to-editor feedback loop that defines modern development.

Pricing & Trust

ClipHistory is $19.99 for a lifetime license—one payment, no recurring subscription, no SaaS trap. Universal binary, signed and notarized by Apple, macOS only.

Get ClipHistory — $19.99 and start reclaiming your clipboard workflow today.