A clipboard manager built for developers

You copy commands, tokens, paths, stack traces and snippets all day — then lose the one you needed two copies ago. Copydrop keeps every one, searchable full-text, one shortcut away — and never sends a byte off your Mac.

The three things that matter at the terminal and editor

Paste as plain text

Grab a snippet from a browser or a doc and paste it clean — no stray fonts, colors or hidden markup landing in your editor or terminal. What you paste is the text, nothing else.

Unlimited snippet history, instant search

That curl command from last Tuesday, the connection string, the one-liner you always forget — all kept, all searchable. Hit ⌘⇧C, type three letters, done. No re-Googling what you already ran.

Quick paste, find by app

Copying several things to assemble a command or config? They're all in history — ⌘1–⌘9 pastes any of the most recent nine without touching the mouse. And every card is tagged with its source app (Warp, Terminal, your editor, Chrome), so you find things by where you copied them, not just what they said.

Keyboard-first, no exceptions

• ⌘⇧C → type to search → Enter to paste. ⌘1–⌘9 for direct hits.
• Native Swift app that idles in the menu bar — no Dock icon, a few MB of memory, panel up in milliseconds.
• Handles big clips (long logs, whole files) without lag.
• Pin the commands and snippets you reuse, so they're always at hand.

A real example: the paste that saves you

You copy a code block from a docs site to drop into your editor. Paste it normally and you can drag in a stray font, a background color, or invisible smart-quotes that break the build. Copydrop pastes it as plain text — just the characters, nothing else. Second scenario: you're rebuilding a shell command from three things you copied (a host, a token, a flag). Instead of shuttling back to re-copy each one, they're all in history — ⌘1, ⌘2, ⌘3 pastes each without touching the mouse. Third: last Tuesday's curl one-liner is still there — type three letters, Enter, done, no re-Googling.

Questions developers ask

Does it strip formatting from copied code?

Yes — paste as plain text drops rich formatting so snippets land clean in your editor or terminal. The original rich version stays in history too, if you ever want it.

What about secrets I copy from a password manager?

Never captured. Copydrop respects the concealed-content flag password managers set, and you can exclude any other app (a secrets tool, an internal dashboard) with one click. Combined with the local-only architecture, what you copy physically cannot leave your Mac.

Also built for: designers · writers. Comparing options? vs Raycast · pay-once managers.