Changelog

Every version of Kept, newest first.

1.1

Return now pastes for real, and switching from another clipboard app is painless.

  • Kept runs without Apple's App Sandbox, because the sandbox forbids the Accessibility permission that pasting for you needs. Your 1.0 history and settings move over by themselves on first launch.
  • Kept contains no networking code. It never opens a connection, every release build is checked by a script that fails if networking code is linked, and Apple's notarisation checks it for malware.
  • The menu bar icon opens the full panel; double-click a row and it is pasted. A Clipy-style history menu is the alternative in Settings.
  • Paste directly is on from the first launch. macOS asks once for the Accessibility permission the first time Return would paste.
  • Plain text into Slack, Terminal, iTerm2, Warp, Ghostty and, by default, every browser, so Jira, Zendesk and web Slack never get stray fonts. Hold ⌥ to paste as copied. Settings › Pasting lists the apps.
  • ⌥⌘Return wraps a snippet in a code block for Slack, Jira and GitHub comments. ⌥⌃Return pastes a link without its tracking parameters.
  • The same text copied as a link and again as plain text is one item.
  • Paste options everywhere: ⌥Return or ⇧Return for plain text, ⌘Return joins lines into one (for terminal commands), ⌃Return pretty-prints JSON. Code always pastes as plain text.
  • JSON is recognised and previewed pretty-printed.
  • Quick paste lists your pins above your recent copies, and opens at the pointer with ⌥ right-click or a middle click.
  • Coming from Clipy, Paste, Flycut, Maccy, Alfred, Raycast or Windows? Pick it in the welcome window or Settings and Kept uses the same shortcut.
  • The kept command lists, searches and copies your history from Terminal. Settings › General has the one-line install.

1.0

The first release. Signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple. macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon and Intel, one universal download.

  • Keeps text and rich text up to 256 KB, links, images and screenshots up to 50 MB, files, colours and code.
  • Opens with ⇧⌘V: search as you type across five scopes (all, text, links, images, pinned).
  • Return pastes into the app you were in, ⌥Return pastes as plain text, ⌘1 to ⌘9 paste the last nine.
  • Pinned items, history limits of 500 items or 30 days by default, and Clear history in Settings.
  • Never records copies that password managers mark as concealed, or anything from apps you ignore.
  • No network entitlement, no accounts, no analytics.