Unlimited history
Every entry you choose to keep stays searchable, with limits and expiry you set yourself.
Clipboard ledger for macOS
An encrypted ledger of your clipboard, on every Mac you own. Press Shift Option Space, search your whole history, and paste it yourself.
macOS 14 or newer · Universal · Free · No account
⇧⌥Space opens the search window, anywhere
Pinned
No entries found
This is the real interface. Type, filter, use the arrows, press Enter.
Every entry you choose to keep stays searchable, with limits and expiry you set yourself.
SQLCipher on disk, AES-256-GCM for files and for anything that reaches iCloud.
ClipLedger only sets the clipboard, so it never asks for Accessibility access.
Search
ClipLedger keeps every entry you chose to keep, so the answer is never gone. Full text search runs over the encrypted ledger, operators cut the result down, and fewer than five matches quietly switches to a fuzzy pass.
Operators, if you already know
app:xcodetype:linksis:pinnedafter:2026-08-01Fewer than five matches turns on the fuzzy pass, so a half remembered word still lands.
Filters
Every entry keeps its type, its source app, and its age. Tab and Shift Tab move through the filters without leaving the keyboard, and Vision reads text inside screenshots on device so an image is searchable too.
No entries of this type in the sample ledger.
10 entries Sample ledger, filtered live in your browser.
Encrypted sync
Sync runs through your own private CloudKit database, never a ClipLedger server and never an account. Each record is encrypted again with your Ledger Key before it leaves the Mac, and that key reaches your other Macs through iCloud Keychain or a recovery phrase you keep.
MacBook Pro
Mac mini
The entry is classified, then written to the local ledger that SQLCipher keeps encrypted on disk.
Before upload, the payload is encrypted with AES-256-GCM under your Ledger Key, so iCloud stores bytes it cannot read.
The record lands in your own private CloudKit database. There is no ClipLedger account, server, or shared database.
The second Mac unlocks the payload with the same Ledger Key and the entry is one shortcut away there too.
The app itself
These are deterministic captures of the real macOS interface, recorded with fixed sample data. No mockups, no stock photography, no invented numbers.
Captured with fixed sample data, no personal information.
The ledger
Search is only the beginning. ClipLedger shows exactly why an entry is kept, masked, synced, or removed.
Clean text, format JSON, convert colors, or create a hash. The result goes to the clipboard while the saved entry stays intact.
Every detector has its own action, expiry, and sync choice. Multiple matches always follow the strictest rule.
Combine full text search with operators for app, type, date, state, and category. Fewer than five matches triggers a fuzzy fallback.
Set a TTL on one entry or an entire category. Before saving, see exactly what the new rules would remove.
Vision OCR makes screenshot text searchable, locally and without a network request. Images remain encrypted.
Private CloudKit sync gets an extra client side encryption layer. The Ledger Key reaches your Macs through iCloud Keychain or a recovery phrase.
Check it yourself
No invented benchmarks, no competitor straw men, no testimonials we cannot show. The technical documents are part of the product.
How one Ledger Key derives the database, file, and CloudKit keys, and what happens if you lose it.
Read the security noteNothing, in the app and on this site. No analytics, no cookies, no account, no third party crash reporting.
Read the privacy noteThe complete keyboard reference, generated from the same source the app is built from.
Open supportCompletely free
Both distribution channels get the same features and cost zero. Only signing and updates differ.
macOS 14 or newer · Universal · Free · No account
FAQ
Automatic paste requires simulated keystrokes and Accessibility permission. ClipLedger only restores the clipboard, then you paste normally with Command-V.
Entries live in an encrypted database on your Mac. If sync is enabled, client-side encrypted records also live in your private CloudKit database.
Password-manager marker types are always honored and ignored. Other likely secrets follow the privacy rule you choose.
Yes. Every category has its own store, masked store, never store, expiry, and sync controls.
Without the Ledger Key or recovery phrase, nobody can recover your ledger, including us.
You decide. Set limits globally and per type, including separate expiry rules for images and files.
Yes. ClipLedger is a Universal app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 14 or newer.
Features and price are identical. Only signing and the update channel differ.
No analytics, no cookies, no banner. This site does not build a file on you either. See the key hierarchy