ClipFlow

Premium clipboard manager for macOS.
Fast, minimal, native, and built for daily professional workflows.

Why ClipFlow

ClipFlow gives you a Windows + V style clipboard history experience on macOS, with a polished floating panel, global hotkey access, and local-first privacy.

Highlights

• Global hotkey to open the clipboard panel (Option + V by default)
• Preset shortcuts and custom shortcut recorder in Settings
• Clipboard history for text and images
• Search, favorite, pin, delete, and clear all
• Quick filters: All, Favorites, Pinned, Text, and Images
• Source app label on each clipboard record (when available)
• Filtered/total counter in panel header
• Selection auto-scroll while navigating with keyboard (↑ and ↓)
• Keyboard power actions inside panel:
  • ⌘1..⌘5 switch filters
  • ⌘D favorite selected item
  • ⌘P pin selected item
  • ⌘C copy selected item back to clipboard
• Voice assistant with two activation modes:
  • Hotkey (⌥⇧V, default): mic turns on only while you speak — the macOS mic indicator stays off otherwise
  • Always listening with wake word (default clipe)
• Assistant commands: "que horas são", "que dia é hoje", "quantos graus agora" (free wttr.in, no API key), "abra o site github.com", "pesquise "
• Spoken responses via native macOS text-to-speech (offline) + system sound feedback — both optional
• Voice commands via native on-device speech recognition:
  • "clipe, abra o Xcode" / "clipe, open Xcode"
  • "clipe, tire um print" (full screen or area) — saved straight to history
  • "clipe, cole o item 2", "clipe, cole o último", "clipe, copie o item 3"
  • "clipe, digite " (voice dictation into the focused app)
  • "clipe, salve como deploy" / "clipe, cole o snippet deploy"
  • "clipe, formate o json", "clipe, limpar histórico", "clipe, pausar monitoramento"
  • Animated on-screen HUD with live transcript and command feedback
• Developer productivity tools:
  • Transform & copy from any card: format/minify JSON, Base64 encode/decode, camelCase/snake_case, UPPER/lower, trim
  • Smart content detection: JSON, hex colors, and hashes get their own icons
  • Named snippets (voice or context menu) with a dedicated Snippets filter (⌘6)
  • Sequential paste stack: queue items (⌘S or context menu) and paste them one by one
• Automatic paste back to the previously focused app
• Ignored app list for sensitive software (password managers, etc.)
• Optional local AES-GCM encryption
• Menu bar native app with light/dark support
• Launch at Login support
• Native Mac Command Center with live CPU, GPU, unified memory, thermal, storage/I/O, network, and power metrics
• Configurable menu-bar items in number, graph, or combined styles
• Native floating dashboard from any menu-bar metric, with Quick and Detailed modes
• Individual Apple Silicon thermal sensors grouped by component, with live temperature, hardware ID, and per-sensor history
• Battery level, charging state, power draw, health, and cycle count when exposed by the hardware
• Recoverable cache and Xcode DerivedData cleanup, plus honest memory-pressure guidance without terminating processes
• Capability-aware sensor collection: unavailable readings are reported explicitly

Install (for end users)

One-line install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/richardfariax/clip-flow/main/Scripts/install.sh | bash

This installs ClipFlow.app to ~/Applications to avoid admin password prompts.

Homebrew short command

One-time setup:

brew tap richardfariax/clip-flow https://github.com/richardfariax/clip-flow

Then install with the short command:

brew install --cask --appdir="$HOME/Applications" clipflow

Homebrew (direct cask URL, no tap)

brew install --cask --appdir="$HOME/Applications" \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/richardfariax/clip-flow/main/Casks/clipflow.rb

Or run locally:

./Scripts/install_via_brew.sh

DMG (manual)

1. Open latest release.
2. Download ClipFlow.dmg.
3. Drag ClipFlow.app to /Applications.
4. Open ClipFlow and grant requested permissions.

Notes:

• If you install to /Applications, macOS may request admin password.
• If you install to ~/Applications, admin password is usually not required.

Permissions

ClipFlow may request:

• Accessibility: required for automatic paste simulation (Cmd + V)
• Input Monitoring: improves reliability for global hotkeys
• Microphone + Speech Recognition: required only if you enable voice commands (recognition runs on-device when available)
• Screen Recording: required for voice-triggered screenshots

These permission dialogs are controlled by macOS security and cannot be bypassed by the installer.

For maintainers

./Scripts/version.sh status   # project.yml ↔ pbxproj ↔ git tag
./Scripts/version.sh bump 2.1.0
./Scripts/release.sh && ./Scripts/release_dmg.sh

Releases: merge dev → main runs semver (feat/fix/feat!:), tags, and uploads DMG/ZIP. Manual assets: .github/workflows/release-assets.yml. Cask: Casks/clipflow.rb.

Privacy

ClipFlow stores data locally on your Mac. No cloud sync is enabled by default.

Credits

Developed by Richard Farias

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardfariasss/