Does ClipHistory send my clipboard to the cloud?

No. There's no account and no cloud sync. The only network call is the single AI request you trigger, sent directly to your own provider using your own API key. Everything else stays on your Mac.

Will Clean rewrite my sentences?

No. Clean is conservative: it fixes whitespace, typos, and punctuation but keeps your wording. If you want different phrasing, use the separate Rewrite transform.

Do I need an AI subscription to use Clean?

You need an API key from one of five providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google, or a custom endpoint). You pay that provider directly for usage; ClipHistory itself is a one-time $19.99 purchase.

What macOS versions are supported?

macOS 12 and later. ClipHistory is a universal binary, so it runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, and it's signed and notarized by Apple.

Fix Typos in Copied Text on Mac (AI Clean)

Fix Typos in Copied Text on Mac

You copy a sentence from a PDF, a Slack message, or a half-finished email, and it arrives full of stray line breaks, double spaces, and the occasional typo. Retyping it is slow. macOS doesn't fix copied text on its own. This guide shows how to clean copied text with an AI transform that runs the moment you paste.

Why copied text breaks in the first place

Text loses its shape as it travels between apps. A few common causes:

PDF extraction inserts hard line breaks at the end of every visual line.
Email clients keep quote markers (>) and signature noise.
Web pages carry hidden formatting, non-breaking spaces, and smart quotes.
Chat apps wrap long URLs or add timestamps you don't want.

A plain clipboard keeps all of that. The fix is a clipboard manager that can run a cleanup pass before you paste.

The fastest way: AI Clean in ClipHistory

ClipHistory is a clipboard manager for macOS that keeps your last 150 clips and adds AI transforms on top. One of those transforms is Clean — it removes junk whitespace, fixes obvious typos, and normalizes punctuation without rewriting your meaning.

Here's the flow:

Copy the messy text as usual (Cmd+C).
Open ClipHistory with Cmd+Shift+V.
Select the clip and choose the Clean transform.
Paste the cleaned result wherever you need it.

The original clip stays in your history, so if Clean over-corrects, the raw version is one click away.

What "Clean" actually does

The Clean transform is conservative on purpose. It targets:

Collapsing repeated spaces and stray tabs
Removing line breaks that split a single sentence
Fixing common typos and capitalization slips
Converting smart quotes and dashes to consistent forms

It does not rephrase your sentences. If you want a stronger pass — different wording or a different tone — that's a separate transform (Rewrite), so cleanup and rewriting never get tangled.

Bring your own AI provider

ClipHistory doesn't ship a model or route your text through a server it controls. You connect your own API key from one of five providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google, or a custom endpoint — and the transform calls that provider directly from your Mac.

That has two practical effects:

Everything stays local except the single API call you trigger. There's no ClipHistory account, no cloud sync, and no clipboard database living on someone else's server.
You control cost and model. Use a fast, cheap model for cleanup and a stronger one for rewriting if you like.

When you don't want to call AI at all

Not every cleanup needs a model. For repetitive fixes — say, stripping > quote markers or collapsing whitespace — a snippet or a saved board entry can be quicker, and it's fully offline. AI Clean is best for one-off messes where the pattern is unpredictable.

A rough rule of thumb:

Predictable, repeated pattern? Use a snippet or a manual edit. No model call, no cost, instant.
Unpredictable mess with typos and broken lines? Use AI Clean. The model handles the parts a find-and-replace can't.
Different wording or tone needed? That's a Rewrite, not a Clean.

Knowing which tool to reach for keeps your costs down and your results predictable.

Choosing a model for cleanup

Because you bring your own provider, you decide which model does the work. Cleanup is one of the lighter tasks you can run, so it rarely needs your most capable model:

A small, fast model is usually enough to collapse whitespace and catch obvious typos.
Reserve a stronger model for jobs where judgment matters — restructuring a paragraph, for instance.
If a cheap model over-corrects or misses something, the original clip is still in history, so re-running with a better model costs you nothing but a second attempt.

This is the practical benefit of "bring your own key": you tune the trade-off between speed, cost, and quality per task instead of accepting whatever a bundled model decides.

A realistic example

You copy three paragraphs from a research PDF. They paste in like this:

The study examined  the
effects of sleep  on memory
retention.It found that...

After AI Clean:

The study examined the effects of sleep on memory retention. It found that...

No retyping, no manual line-break hunting. The clip went from unusable to ready in two keystrokes and a click.

Keeping cleaned versions around

Because ClipHistory keeps 150 unpinned clips plus unlimited pinned ones, you can pin a frequently reused passage after cleaning it once. Pinned clips never age out of history, so a polished bio, address block, or boilerplate paragraph stays one shortcut away indefinitely.

Quick setup checklist

macOS 12 or later (Apple Silicon or Intel — it's a universal binary)
ClipHistory installed (it's signed and notarized by Apple)
An API key from your chosen provider added in Settings
Cmd+Shift+V to summon history, then pick Clean

Once that's in place, fixing copied text becomes muscle memory.

Get ClipHistory for macOS

Stop retyping messy copies. Get ClipHistory for macOS — $19.99, one-time (12-month license, no auto-renewal) and clean any clip with a single shortcut.