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Press ⌃⌥V (Control-Option-V) from any app. The picker appears in the centre of your screen. You can change the shortcut in Settings → Hotkeys.

cpMan is a menu-bar app by design. Look for the clipboard icon in the menu bar (top-right). It has no Dock icon and no ⌘Tab entry.

Five tabs sit above your history — All, Text, Links, Images, and Pinned. Press Tab or Shift+Tab to cycle through them without touching the mouse.

Your history is automatically grouped into Today, Yesterday, This Week, This Month, and Older. Each row shows a relative timestamp (2m, 3h, Tue) so you can scan quickly without reading full dates.

Press Space while a clip is selected to float a full-content overlay right over the list. Press ↑/↓ to step through clips while Peek is open, Return to paste, or Esc to dismiss.

Press ⌘I to open a side panel showing the full content of the selected clip — text or image — with a metadata strip (source app, time copied, size). Toggle the metadata with ⌘⌥I. You can make it persist across sessions from Settings → Appearance.

Press ⌘K (or → on any row, or right-click → "Commands…") to open a searchable action menu with fuzzy matching. It lists Paste, Paste as Plain Text, Edit, Pin, Delete, Paste as File, Paste OCR Text, and all text transforms — in one place.

Yes — open the ⌘K command palette and scroll to Transforms, or press ⌥⌘K to jump straight there. Available transforms include uppercase, lowercase, title case, trim whitespace, Base64 encode/decode, URL encode/decode, and more. A live preview shows the result before you commit.

Right-click any text item and choose Edit (or select Edit from the ⌘K palette). Your changes are saved as a new entry in your history.

Right-click any image in your history and choose "Paste as File". The image is pasted as a .png file — useful in Finder, Mail, Slack, and other apps that accept file drops.

When you turn on Auto-paste, macOS will prompt you for Accessibility permission. To set this up: 1) Click the 'Open System Settings' (or 'Enable') button on the popup. 2) In the macOS Accessibility settings, find cpMan in the list. 3) Turn the toggle switch next to cpMan to ON (Enabled). If cpMan is not listed, click the '+' button, enter your administrator password, browse to your /Applications folder, select cpMan, and ensure the toggle is switched ON.

This button appears because cpMan needs Accessibility permission to automatically paste selected clips for you. Clicking the 'Enable' button will direct you to the macOS System Settings where you can switch on the toggle for cpMan. If you choose to keep it disabled, the app will still work, but you will need to manually paste items using ⌘V.

If you have turned on Auto-paste in cpMan's settings but still have to manually press paste, macOS has likely desynchronized the Accessibility database. To fix this: 1) Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility. 2) Turn the toggle for cpMan OFF and then back ON. 3) If that doesn't work, select cpMan in the list, click the '-' button at the bottom to remove it entirely, then click '+' to add cpMan back from your /Applications folder.

Yes. With OCR enabled (Settings → Images), cpMan reads text inside copied images and screenshots on-device, so they show up in search results.

Add them to the ignore list in Settings → Ignore List. The list shows every installed app with its real name and icon, making it easy to find what you need. You can also use Private Mode from the menu bar to pause recording entirely — choose 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, or indefinite.

Settings → Appearance lets you choose Light, Dark, or System, and set a custom accent color, with a live preview.

Entirely on your Mac, in the app's sandbox container. Nothing is uploaded, and everything cpMan writes to your clipboard stays on this Mac — it never syncs through Universal Clipboard. See the Privacy Policy for details.

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, on Apple silicon or Intel.