A clipboard manager built for designers
Designers copy in assets and layers — not just words. Copydrop is a Mac clipboard manager that treats them that way: a Figma layer pastes back as a Figma layer, images keep real thumbnails, and every clip remembers which app it came from.
The three things that matter in design work
Copy a Figma layer, paste a Figma layer
Copydrop preserves app-native objects in the exact form the app put on the clipboard. Copy a layer, a frame, a group — paste the object, not a flattened image. The same holds for rich content from other design tools: what you copied is what lands.
Real thumbnails for every image and file
Images and files are first-class citizens. Each card carries a real thumbnail with its file size, so you confirm you're pasting that export — not the one from ten minutes ago — before it lands. No more paste-check-undo.
Everything you copied from Figma this week
Every clip is tagged with its source app, so you can find things by where they came from — Figma, Chrome, Finder — not just what they said. Combined with full-text search, "that thing I copied out of the brand doc" is three keystrokes away.
Why it feels right: Copydrop is native and restrained — invisible until you hit ⌘⇧C, then a panel with rich previews. It behaves like part of macOS, which is the bar design tools should meet.
Your workflow, keyboard-first
- Hit ⌘⇧C, type a few letters — search your whole history full-text, instantly.
- Paste without touching the mouse: Enter for the selected clip, ⌘1–⌘9 for direct hits.
- Pin the brand assets you reuse — logos, links, boilerplate snippets — so they stay put.
- Nothing is ever lost: unlimited history, searchable for as long as you use your Mac.
Private by architecture
Client work stays yours. Copydrop keeps everything you copy on your Mac — no account, no telemetry — and content from password managers is never captured. Your history is a local database on your Mac.
What a real design session looks like
You're building a landing page. You copy a paragraph out of the client's brand doc, grab an exported hero from Finder, and copy a button component out of an older Figma file to reuse. Normally two of those are already gone by the time you need them. With Copydrop they're all still in history: hit ⌘⇧C, and the brand copy is findable by a few letters, the export shows a real thumbnail with its file size so you confirm it's the 2× one, and the Figma component pastes back as an editable layer — not a flattened PNG. A five-minute detour becomes three keystrokes.
Questions designers ask
Does it work with Figma, Sketch and Illustrator?
Yes. Copydrop stores whatever the app puts on the clipboard in its native form, so copying a Figma layer pastes a Figma layer, a Sketch object pastes a Sketch object, and vector data from Illustrator stays vector. Anything it can't reconstruct as a native object it keeps as an image or file with a full preview.
Can I see an image before I paste it?
That's the point of the rich preview. Every image and file card shows a real thumbnail with its file size, so you never paste last week's export by mistake — you confirm the exact asset first.
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