ReCopy

Copy once, paste anytime.

A clipboard history for macOS that remembers text, links, colours, e-mail addresses, images and files. Your history lives in a folder you choose, so iCloud Drive, Google Drive or OneDrive can sync it between your Macs.

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Features

Press ⇧⌘V anywhere, find what you copied, paste it back.

🔎 Knows what you copied	Text, links, e-mail addresses, colours (#HEX, rgb(), hsl()), images and files, each with its own icon. Filter by type or by the day it was first copied.
🌐 Link previews	Links show their site's favicon, page title and preview image.
🖼️ Text in images	Text in copied screenshots is recognised on your Mac, so you can search for it.
📌 Pin	Pinned entries stay at the top and are never cleaned up.
🗓️ Sections by time	Pinned, Today, Yesterday, This Week, This Month, then by month.
ℹ️ Details	Source app, type, characters and words, image size, how many times it was copied and pasted, and when first and last.
✍️ Annotate images	Pen, highlighter, rectangle and arrow, saved as a new entry and put on the clipboard.
⚡ Actions per type	Paste, copy, open a link, write an e-mail, copy a colour as HEX, RGB or HSL, save an image or text to a file, show a file in Finder.
🔒 Private by default	Passwords marked as secret by any app are never recorded, and you can ignore whole apps (Passwords and Keychain Access are ignored from the start).
🎛️ Yours to tune	Change the shortcut, keep history from a day to forever, text size, copy and paste sounds, toasts, open at login.
📥 Import from Raycast	Brings in the images and rich-text copies Raycast keeps.

[!TIP] Double-click an entry to copy it and close the window, or press ↩ to paste it straight into the app you were in.

Install

Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later.

Homebrew

brew install --cask lazycatlabs/tap/recopy

Or download the DMG from Releases, open it and drag ReCopy to Applications. A zip of the same app is there too.

[!NOTE] First launch. ReCopy isn't notarized yet, so macOS blocks it the first time:

1. Open ReCopy.
2. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security.
3. Click Open Anyway, once.

ReCopy lives in the menu bar. On first launch it asks for a folder for your history: pick one inside iCloud Drive, Google Drive or OneDrive to share it between Macs.

open ReCopy.xcodeproj

Choose the ReCopy scheme and press ⌘R. To build the DMG and zip a release uses:

scripts/make_release.sh

Shortcuts

In the clipboard window:

Keys	Does
⇧⌘V	Open or close the window, from any app (change it in Settings)
↑ ↓	Select
↩	Paste into the app you were in
⌘↩ or double-click	Copy and close
⌘1 … ⌘9	Paste one of the first nine entries
⌘K	All actions for the selected entry
⌘P	Pin or unpin
⌘O	Open the link, file or e-mail
⌘E	Annotate an image
⌘S	Save an image or text to a file
⌘⌫	Delete
⌘,	Settings
esc	Close the actions, clear the search, then close the window

Permissions

Permission	Why
Accessibility	Send ⌘V to the app you were in, so ↩ pastes. Without it, ReCopy copies and you paste yourself.

[!IMPORTANT] macOS ties the permission to the app's signature. If it stops working after an update, remove ReCopy from System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility and grant it again.

Your data

Everything stays in the folder you picked. There are no accounts and no analytics; the only network requests fetch a copied link's title and preview image (you can turn that off).

<your folder>/
├── .recopy/config.json    settings shared by your Macs
├── items/<id>.json        one small file per entry
└── blobs/                 images, favicons and link previews

One file per entry keeps cloud sync quick and conflicts small. The shortcut, text size and folder location are kept per Mac.

FAQ

Partly. Settings → Import → Import from Raycast… brings in the images and rich-text copies Raycast keeps as files. Raycast encrypts the rest (plain text, copy counts, source apps), so those can't be moved. Entries already in ReCopy are skipped, so you can run it again.

Not now. ReCopy is macOS only.

Use Report a Bug in the menu bar or in Settings → About. It opens an e-mail to [email protected] with your app and macOS versions filled in.

Development

You'll need Xcode 26 or later. The app is built in the Swift 6 language mode with main-actor isolation by default, and the project uses synchronized folders, so new files are picked up automatically. AGENTS.md describes the architecture and conventions.

git clone https://github.com/lazycatlabs/recopy.git

cd recopy && open ReCopy.xcodeproj

Unit tests:

This is the beginning of the README. Read the rest at the original. Read the full README ↗