A clipboard manager built for writers

Writing is half gathering, half assembling — quotes, links, half-sentences, a stat from a PDF. Copydrop keeps every clip you collect, lets you search all of it, and pastes it back in the order you want. You copied it once; you'll never hunt for it again.

The three things that matter when you write

Gather now, assemble later

Copy a dozen quotes and links while you research, then paste each one back into your draft as you need it — no shuttling through a scratch document, no losing the third thing because you copied a fourth.

Search everything you've collected

That perfect line you copied last week? Type three letters. Copydrop searches your whole history full-text, instantly — the clip and the app it came from, so you can trace the source.

Paste it your way

A quote copied from the web drags its source formatting along — fonts, colors, hidden markup. Paste as plain text and it takes on your document's styling instead. The rich original stays in history if you ever want it back.

Keyboard-first, out of your way

• Hit ⌘⇧C, type, press Enter — you never leave the keyboard or your draft.
• Unlimited history: every quote and link you've ever copied, kept for as long as you use your Mac.
• Invisible until summoned — no Dock icon, no notifications, nothing in your way while you write.

Private by architecture

Drafts, interview notes, unpublished lines — yours alone. Copydrop keeps everything you copy on your Mac: no account, no telemetry. Everything stays in a local database on your Mac.

Assembling a draft from a dozen clips

Research mode: you're reading five tabs and a PDF, copying a quote here, a statistic there, a link to cite later. Normally each new copy erases the last, so you keep a messy scratch document open just to park things. With Copydrop you copy freely — everything is kept — then, when you switch to your draft, you hit ⌘⇧C and paste each piece back in the order you want. The quote you grabbed first is still there twenty copies later, tagged with the app it came from so you can trace the source. The gathering and the writing stop fighting each other.

Questions writers ask

Can I keep a quote together with its source?

Copy the quote and the URL as two clips; both stay in history, each tagged with the app it came from (Safari, a PDF reader), so you can reassemble quote-plus-citation later by searching a few words.

Does it work with Ulysses, iA Writer and Google Docs?

Yes — Copydrop pastes into any app, and pastes plain text when you want the clip to take on your document's styling instead of dragging formatting in from the source.

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