Buffer — Clipboard Manager
An open-source clipboard manager for macOS featuring ultra-lightweight local storage, searchable history, instant hotkey access, OCR for extracting text from images, developer-friendly large snippet support, bookmarks for favorites, and no cloud syncing.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- Dark Mode
- OCR
- No Tracking
- Full-Text Search
- Works Offline
- Support for Hotkeys
- Global hotkey
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Bookmarks
- Extract text from image
- Favorites
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Buffer — Clipboard Manager information
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Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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What is Buffer — Clipboard Manager?
Why Buffer?
Ultra-lightweight — Only ~2 MB to download/install, with minimal RAM and CPU usage.
100% private & local — Everything stays on your Mac. No cloud, no tracking, no accounts.
Text, images & OCR — Copy anything and extract searchable text from screenshots, images, and memes using Apple’s on-device Vision framework.
Built for developers — Handles large snippets, JSON payloads, logs, code, and verbose clipboard content with ease.
Large-content friendly — Lazy chunked previews and disk-backed storage for multi-MB clipboard items, with size indicators.
Pins & smart history — Pin important items while keeping clipboard history fast and uncluttered.
Multi-select & multi-paste — Select multiple history items and paste them together in one action.
Bookmarks — Star important items with ?B for quick reuse.
Tags & filtering — Organize clipboard history with custom color-coded tags and fast #tag search autocomplete.
Configurable hotkeys — Customize the global shortcut with dynamic hotkey re-registration.
Native macOS experience — Clean SwiftUI + AppKit menu-bar app that feels truly native.
Seamless updates — Secure built-in auto-updater with code-signature verification and native “What’s New” update flows.
Open source — MIT licensed and actively maintained.
Lives in your menu bar. Never leaves your Mac.