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Recento Clipboard · Part of Recento Pro
A clipboard manager for Mac that remembers everything you copy
Search your clipboard history, pin the clips you reuse and paste them straight into the app you were working in. Recento Clipboard is part of Recento Pro.
macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon & Intel
Your Mac's clipboard holds one thing at a time. Copy a link, then copy an address, and the link is gone. Hours later you need it again and have to go and find it all over again.
Recento Clipboard is a clipboard manager for Mac that keeps a searchable history of the text, images, links and files you copy. Find any clip by typing a few letters, pin the ones you use every day, file them into collections, and paste them straight into the app you were in. Anything a password manager marks as secret is never recorded.
What Recento Clipboard does
Paste straight into the app you were using
Pick a clip and Recento Clipboard pastes it into the app you were working in, so there is no switching back and pressing ⌘V yourself. Press ⌘⌥1 to ⌘⌥9 (and ⌘⌥0) to pick one of your most recent clips from the menu bar list.
Pin the clips you reuse
Pin addresses, replies, code snippets and links you paste every week so they never scroll away. A Top Copied view shows the clips you reach for most.
Sort clips into collections
Group clips by project or client in colour-coded collections. Drag a clip onto a collection in the sidebar, or right-click it and choose Add to Collection.
Show a collection on a floating shelf
Switch a collection on and its clips appear on a Recento Drop shelf that floats above your other apps, ready to drag from. File a clip and it shows up there. Pictures become real image files you can drop into anything.
Never records passwords
Passwords and anything else a password manager marks as concealed are never saved to your history, whether sync is on or off. You can also pause recording at any time and clear the history whenever you like, or every time Recento quits.
Sync with your other Macs over iCloud
Turn on iCloud sync and anything you copy on another Mac shows up in your history here, with a badge showing which device it came from. You can filter the history by device too.
Open it from anywhere
Your clipboard history is in the full Recento Clipboard window, in the Recents menu bar dropdown and in Recento Slide, a bar that slides up from the bottom of the screen in any app.
How it works
- 1Download Recento Pro and turn on Recento Clipboard in the Hub.
- 2Copy as you normally do. Every clip is saved to your history.
- 3Open Recento Clipboard, the menu bar list or Recento Slide when you need something back.
- 4Type to search, then pick the clip. It is pasted into the app you were using.
- 5Pin the clips you reuse and file them into collections.
Who it's for
- Developers who copy commands, error messages and code snippets all day and need last hour's one back.
- Writers and researchers who collect quotes and links from many sources before writing.
- Support and sales teams who paste the same replies, links and addresses many times a day.
- Designers who move images and colour values between apps.
- People who work across two Macs and want what they copied on one to be there on the other.
Free and paid
| Feature | Free version | Recento Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Clipboard history kept | 50 clips | Up to 2,000 clips |
| Search, pins, Top Copied & collections | Included | Included |
| Paste straight into any app | Included | Included |
| iCloud sync with iPhone & Macs | Not included | Included |
Recento Pro unlocks the paid features in every module for $9.99 a month after a 2 day free trial (cancel any time) or $99 once for a lifetime licence.
Plans, trial and refund terms are on the Recento Pro pricing section.
Coming to iPhone
Recento Clipboard is coming to iPhone and iPad as a free app. It will show your Mac's clipboard history on your phone, and the clips you save on your phone will appear on your Mac with an iPhone badge. Syncing uses your own private iCloud account, so there is nothing to sign up for.
The Mac side of syncing is part of Recento Pro. The iPhone app is not on the App Store yet. This page will link to it when it is.
Privacy and permissions
- Accessibility: needed only to paste a clip straight into another app. Without it, picking a clip copies it and you press ⌘V yourself. Recento Clipboard asks the first time you try to paste.
- iCloud: used only if you turn on sync, which is off by default. Clips go to your own private iCloud database, and their contents are encrypted so that neither Recento nor Apple can read them. There is no Recento server involved.
Your clipboard history is stored on your Mac. Anything a password manager marks as concealed is never recorded. With sync on, text, links, rich text and pictures up to 512 KB sync. Larger pictures and copied files stay on the Mac that copied them. Deleting a clip deletes it on your other devices and takes its contents back out of iCloud.
Requirements
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
- Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
- iCloud sync needs every device signed in to the same iCloud account.
Questions
Does Mac have a clipboard history?
macOS keeps only the last thing you copied. Recento Clipboard adds a full, searchable history of the text, images, links and files you copy, so you can get back something you copied hours or days ago.
How many clips does Recento Clipboard keep?
The free version keeps your 50 most recent clips. Recento Pro keeps up to 2,000. Pinned clips stay easy to find however long ago you copied them.
Does Recento Clipboard save my passwords?
No. Password managers mark the passwords they copy as concealed, and Recento Clipboard never records anything marked that way. You can also pause recording at any time.
Can it paste directly into the app I was using?
Yes. Pick a clip and it is pasted into the app you were in. This needs Accessibility permission, which macOS requires for any app that types into another one. Without it, the clip is copied and you press ⌘V.
Can I sync my clipboard between two Macs?
Yes, with Recento Pro. Turn on iCloud sync on each Mac and clips copied on one appear on the other, marked with the device they came from. Sync happens when you copy something and when you open the app, not instantly in the background, so a clip from another device can take a moment to arrive.
Is there an iPhone version?
Recento Clipboard is coming to iPhone and iPad as a free app that syncs with your Mac over iCloud. It is not on the App Store yet. Syncing on the Mac side is part of Recento Pro.
Does iCloud sync include images and files?
Text, links, rich text and pictures up to 512 KB sync. Larger pictures and copied files stay on the device that copied them, because a file path on one device means nothing on another.
Can Apple or Recento read my synced clips?
No. The contents of each clip are stored in encrypted fields in your own private iCloud database, which neither Recento nor Apple can read. Recento has no server of its own.
Stop losing what you copied
Download Recento Pro and every clip you copy from now on is one search away.
More from Recento Pro
Recento Slideyour clipboard history and collections, one key away in any app.
Recento Dropshow a clipboard collection on a floating shelf to drag from.
Recents MenuBar Apprecent clips alongside your recent files in the menu bar.
Copy PasteWindows-style ⌃C and ⌃V for people switching from a PC.
Recento Snapcopy the text out of any screenshot.