The one I stopped shopping for
I tried four clipboard managers. This is the only one that never once captured a password.
Tobias L. · 2 Sept 2026
Productivity v1.6.0
Clipwell
A clipboard with a memory and a conscience.
4.9 · 892
Clipwell keeps everything you copy — text, images, files, rich snippets — in a searchable history you can reach from anywhere with one shortcut. It watches for the marker apps like 1Password and Keychain set on sensitive copies and skips them entirely, and everything it does keep is encrypted on disk with a key held in your Secure Enclave.
Secrets stay secret
Honours the transient-copy flag password managers set, and encrypts the rest at rest.
Instant search
A hundred thousand clips search in under ten milliseconds. Full text, including inside images via OCR.
Transforms
Paste as plain text, JSON-pretty, base64, slug, or your own JavaScript transform.
- Unlimited history
- Encrypted sync
- Free updates through 1.x
- 3 activations
- 14-day refund, no questions asked
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What it does
History
- Unlimited history with a configurable retention window
- Pinned clips that never expire
- OCR text search inside copied screenshots
- Per-app rules — never record from these apps
Paste
- Stack paste: copy five things, paste them in order
- Paste as plain text with a modifier
- Custom transforms written in JavaScript
- Optional end-to-end encrypted sync across your own Macs
What's new
1.6.0 28 Aug 2026
- Custom JavaScript transforms
- OCR search is roughly 4× faster on M-series
- Fixed sync conflict when two Macs woke at the same time
