Welcome to ClipBuddy 3.4: Dear Diary, Today I typed ;addr in an email and my whole address showed up. I didn't copy it. I didn't paste it. ClipBuddy typed it for me. Snippets now expand as you type, in any app. It stays off until you switch on "Expand keywords as you type" in Settings, Snippets, and macOS asks for Input Monitoring and Accessibility first. What I type is only checked against my keywords, never saved or sent anywhere. Started keeping notes in here too. Markdown with a live preview, so tasks, tables and code look right while I type. Tags, collections, daily notes, pins. I wrecked a note at 2 a.m. and version history gave me the old one back. My notes can live as .md files in a folder I pick, and Markdown files open straight from Finder. ⌥⌘N opens my notes from any app now, and ⌥⌘T opens my snippets. I tick tasks off right in the reading view, and when I spot a typo I double-click the line, fix it and press Esc to go back to reading. This morning my daily note asked if I wanted yesterday's unfinished tasks. I said yes. Then I changed what a new day starts with, because the layout is mine to pick. Found nearly 5,000 templates in 83 categories. Meeting notes, support replies, journal prompts. 23 of them arrive already filled in: a habit tracker, a trip plan with a packing list, a grocery list, a workout log. Tables show up as real tables. They ask for what they need: a name here, a date there, or a date three days out when I'm feeling lazy. Snippets got smarter. Selection Prompts and Chains run on Apple Intelligence, on my Mac (macOS 26). The token bar drops in dates, times, the clipboard and fill-in fields. Brought my old snippets over from TextExpander in one go. aText and Raycast work too. Copied #FF5F5F from a design file. ClipBuddy showed me the color and handed it back as RGB, SwiftUI or Tailwind. Closed three converter tabs. Tried all 15 new themes. Picked Catppuccin. Switched to Nord. Long day. Small things I noticed: Scrolling through a long history with images is smoother. Screenshots translate. Timestamps convert in one click. I can join a few clips with my own separator. Stats show when I copy the most. The space bar preview has Paste and Copy buttons now. Backups carry note images, version history, tags and collections. Next on the list: whatever you ask for. feedback@clipbuddyapp.com Copy that, The ClipBuddy dev

This is a UI and feature update. No new permissions, no new entitlements, no network access. Entitlements are unchanged from the approved 3.0.0 build: App Sandbox, audio input (dictation into the search field), and user-selected file read/write. The app makes no network requests and collects no data. New in this version: the clip library is now a sortable table with search, and it can export to CSV or JSON. Export writes only to a location the user chooses through the standard save panel, which is what the user-selected file entitlement is for. Full history, search and export require Pro; the free tier keeps the last 10 clips. The picker gained background styles and horizontal scrolling. Both are drawing changes only. Direct paste ("Paste to the app in front") is unchanged from the version approved in 2.7.0. It is off by default, opt-in, and prompts for Accessibility only at the point of use. ClipBuddy posts one synthetic Command-V; it does not observe input. The binary contains AXIsProcessTrusted and CGEventPost and contains no CGEventTapCreate or IOHIDManager, which is checkable. Terms of Use (EULA): https://clipbuddyapp.com/terms

Make the picker yours. 3.0.0 adds a Customize Drawer panel, reachable from the sliders button that sits permanently at the right edge of the search field. • Placement: open the picker at the bottom, at the top, or at your pointer. • Layout: Cards or Rows, with Auto columns or a fixed 1 to 6. • Card appearance: set card height, the gap between cards, and the padding around the whole picker. • Typography: pick a drawer font and text size without resizing anything else in the app. • Labels: keep them on the top row, or move them to a sidebar down the left. • Toolbar and clip count: show or hide either. Reset puts everything back. Also in this release: • The search field and its toolbar now span the full width of the picker, so a wide window no longer leaves an empty strip beside them. • The picker will not shrink below a width its own controls fit in. The toolbar can no longer be drawn past the edge, and the search buttons can no longer sit on top of the placeholder. • A clearer light theme: text, chips and the search field were re-measured for contrast. • The first click into the picker registers straight away instead of only focusing the window. • Card footers keep their actions while the pointer rests on a card, and the timestamp shortens instead of disappearing. • The selected card's outline and the keyboard focus ring are now clearly visible on light backgrounds, in every accent theme.

Sharper keyboard control, and a search bar that sits where it should. • Return always pastes the selected clip and it never activates something else. • Tab now completes what you're typing in the search box; press it again for the next match. Option-Tab moves between the drawer's controls, and Space presses the focused one. • Preview is now Command-Y. Set your own keys for edit, preview and quick actions in Settings → Shortcuts, and choose how the Labels row steps (Command-[ and Command-] by default). • The Labels row now scrolls to whatever the keyboard selects. • Fixed: on some Macs the search placeholder and cursor sat above the magnifier. • The drawer now meets the bottom of the screen cleanly.

Three fixes, all found by people using the app. • A dialog could get stuck on screen and refuse to close. Fixed. • If ClipBuddy couldn't lock a detected secret into the Vault, it now tells you instead of quietly saving nothing. • Pressing Return after moving around with Tab now does what you expect. The selected clip also dims while the keyboard is somewhere else, so it's clear what Return will act on.

Fixed: the app could freeze when you changed a setting Turning a switch on or off in Settings could hang ClipBuddy. It was worse in full screen, where the confirmation opened on a different desktop, so you could not see it or answer it while the app sat frozen waiting. Both are fixed, and Settings dialogs now open attached to the window you are actually looking at. Fixed: the picker shortcut could stop working Command-Shift-V could quietly stop opening the picker, and pressing it again did nothing because macOS was still holding the key. That is fixed, along with three related problems. A shortcut that fails to register at startup now tells you instead of failing silently. Upgrading from an older version no longer leaves you on the previous Command-Option-V. And the welcome screen now shows your real shortcut instead of a fixed one that could go out of date. ClipBuddy no longer uses the network at all The update badge added in 2.9.1 is gone, and the network permission it needed went with it. ClipBuddy now ships without any outbound network capability, so it cannot send anything anywhere. The App Store already tells you when an update is ready. Arrange a label the way you want Open one of your labels and drag the cards into any order you like. The arrangement is saved. Labels you have not rearranged keep their normal sort, so nothing moves until you ask it to. Right-click a clip Two-finger click or right-click any clip to open its actions, the same set Command-K gives you. Click the same clip again to close them. Get around without the mouse Tab now steps through the picker one control at a time: each filter, the add button, settings, search, the toolbar, then your clips. Shift-Tab goes back, and Return activates whatever is highlighted. Use the bracket keys to move along the top row of filters and labels. Tips and suggestions The picker header occasionally shows a tip about a feature you have not tried, and never repeats one. ClipBuddy also notices when you keep doing the same thing by hand, like always deleting clips from one app, and offers to turn it into a rule. Both can be switched off in Settings. Fixes • Dialogs no longer open behind the picker where you cannot reach them • Actions opened from a clip now always belong to the clip you clicked • The search field text sits correctly beside the magnifier again • Keyboard shortcuts inside the picker no longer feel intermittent • The picker now closes when you switch to another app • AI actions no longer appear on Macs that cannot run them • Settings switches that need a newer macOS are properly disabled instead of looking available • Opening ClipBuddy a second time brings up the picker instead of appearing to do nothing

Hide while screen sharing ClipBuddy can now stay out of screen shares, recordings and screenshots. Turn it on in Settings → Capture & privacy, and your clipboard history stops appearing in Zoom, Google Meet, QuickTime or a ⇧⌘4 screenshot, while staying perfectly visible on your own screen. Off by default; flip it on when you present. The picker now opens over the Dock If you keep your Dock visible, the picker used to hide behind it and lose its bottom row. It now draws above the Dock, and remembers its size properly between openings instead of drifting a little smaller each time. Clearer redaction Screenshot redaction now tells you plainly that it covers the text it could read, and to check the image before you share it. It covers what it finds, but no automatic scan can promise it caught everything, and the wording now says so. Choose what gets vaulted Settings → Vault now lists each thing ClipBuddy watches for: payment cards, IBANs, password-shaped text, API tokens and private keys. You can switch any of them off on its own. Before, silencing one false positive meant turning off secret detection entirely. Fixes • Your history is now ordered by when you copied something, not by when it finished saving. Copying a large screenshot and then some text could show them the wrong way round. • Two saved searches whose names start the same no longer act as one chip. Hiding or reordering one used to affect both. Renaming a label keeps its place too. • Copy actions now tell you if the copy did not land, instead of reporting success. This matters most for a redacted screenshot: if the copy failed, the original was still on your clipboard. • Rules are matched faster on every copy. • Removed a Settings switch that had nothing behind it, and fixed alerts and the snippet editor opening behind the picker instead of in front of it.

ClipBuddy 2.8.0 lets you ask for what you copied in plain English, hide secrets before you share a screenshot, and lock your backups. Just describe it. Type "the API key I copied from Terminal yesterday" and tap the sparkle. ClipBuddy turns it into the right filters and finds it. This runs entirely on your Mac using Apple Intelligence, and your clips are never sent anywhere. Pro, macOS 26 or later. Redact a screenshot. Cover passwords, keys, card numbers, emails, phone numbers and faces with solid boxes, then copy the safe version. Solid boxes rather than blur, because blur can be reversed. Password-protected backups. Encrypt an exported backup with a passphrase you choose. AES-256, done on your Mac. Markdown preview. A copied README now renders as formatted text, and you can copy either the source or the plain text. Remember your filters. A new setting for whether the picker reopens with the label and search filters you last used, or opens showing everything. Compare two clips. Mark clips with Command-M, then Merge, Digest or Compare them from a bar that appears right there. Comparing JSON ignores key order and formatting, so you see what actually changed rather than how it was formatted. Screenshots hide more. Redaction now spots long API tokens and access keys, not just the well-known formats, so a screenshot of a terminal or a chat thread comes out clean. Plus faster, tidier Settings and fixes throughout.

ClipBuddy 2.7.0 — now in 16 languages, with typo-tolerant search, multi-folder screenshot capture, smarter rules, and a faster app. • 16 languages — ClipBuddy is now fully localized: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Pick your language in Settings. • Typo-tolerant search — a small typo still finds what you copied ("klipboard" finds "clipboard"). Fully on-device. • Show in timeline — from any clip, jump to its place in your full history to see what you copied around it. • Watch multiple screenshot folders — auto-capture screenshots from more than one folder. Each stays screenshot-only, still permission-free, still on-device. • Smarter rules — a capture rule can extract just the useful part of a copy (the first domain, email or number), or automatically compress a copied image. Fully on-device, no new permission. • Faster & smoother — image actions and background work run off the main thread, so the picker and scrolling stay snappy. No account, no server, nothing collected.

ClipBuddy 2.5.0 — search everything at once, one-click rules, built-in dev tools, and a noticeably snappier app. • Universal Search — one query in the picker now surfaces matching emoji and Labels right alongside your clips, so you find anything in one place. • Starter Rules — a gallery of one-click presets: turn "file every screenshot under a Screenshots collection", "clean tracking links", "vault anything that looks like a secret" and more into a smart rule in a single tap. • Developer tools — a regex tester, a CSV table viewer, and a two-clip diff, plus quick generators: UUID, Unix-time ↔ date, and URL parsing — all on-device, in the picker and as transforms. • Find any setting — a search box in Settings jumps straight to the row you want. • Much faster & smoother — a big responsiveness pass: no more background lag after launch, backup/restore run without freezing the window, and image-heavy scrolling stays smooth. • Cleaner Settings — each row's explanation now lives behind a tidy ⓘ instead of a wall of text. No account, no server, nothing collected.

ClipBuddy 2.4.0 — paste your way, pause when you want, and smarter rules. Still 100% on your Mac. • Direct paste (optional) — turn on "Paste to the app in front" in Settings and a picked clip pastes itself into the app you're using. Off by default; ClipBuddy asks for the Accessibility permission only when you enable it, and copy + ⌘V keeps working exactly as before if you don't. • Pause capture — stop recording new copies for 15 minutes, an hour, or until you resume, from the menu bar or the picker. The menu-bar icon shows a pause badge so you always know. • Smarter rules — match clips with search syntax (a | b, -exclude, "exact phrase"), length limits, run a transform on capture, stop after a match, and file one clip under several labels at once. • Frequent — a smart filter of the clips you re-copy most, and a floating Quick Palette that keeps pinned + frequent clips one click away. • Save-as-snippet nudge — copy the same text a fifth time and ClipBuddy offers to turn it into a snippet. • One-time codes (optional) — clips that look like OTPs can burn right after their first paste. • Accessibility — VoiceOver labels and rotor actions across the picker, spoken tab and search context, high-contrast and Reduce Motion support, and a full keyboard-shortcuts reference on ⌘/. No account, no server, nothing collected.

ClipBuddy 2.3.0 — a big on-device update. Everything still runs entirely on your Mac. • Touch-ID Vault — keep passwords, cards and other secrets as encrypted clips, unlocked with Touch ID. Protected by the Secure Enclave; nothing leaves your device. • On-device voice search — tap the mic in the search bar and speak to find a clip. Transcribed entirely on your Mac; no audio is ever uploaded. Optional — typing works exactly as before. • Rules — automate what happens when you copy: skip it, clean tracking junk from links, pin it, burn-after-paste, or file it under a label, based on the app, type or text. • Copy Sessions — your history is grouped into work sessions by idle gaps, so you can bring back "everything I copied building that PR" as a set. • ⌘K command palette — type to filter actions and jump anywhere; reorder the action buttons to taste. • Richer file previews — real QuickLook thumbnails for PDFs and documents. • Developer toolkit — new transforms (JWT decode, XML/SQL format, HEX↔RGB, HTML encode/decode), saveable transform recipes, and a macOS Services menu. • Screenshot auto-capture — new screenshots become searchable by the text inside them, on-device. • Faster and smoother — glassy scrolling and quicker search across large histories. 100% private and local-first: no account, no server, nothing collected. Passwords and concealed copies are skipped automatically.

Performance and stability improvements.