For macOS · Apple Silicon and Intel

Your clipboard, in the notch.

ClipNotch keeps your clipboard out of the way. A quiet teal dot to the right of the notch means you have a copy you haven't pasted yet. Hover the notch and it opens into your last 5 copies; click any one to drop it back on your clipboard. Paste, and the dot clears. Native, all local, free.

Download for Mac · free · macOS 13+
A dot when something's unpasted · signed and notarized by Apple · no account, no cloud
A teal dot means an unpasted copy. Hover the notch for your last 5; click one to re-copy.

A clipboard you can see.
It lives where you're already looking.

No window to open, no panel to summon, no account to make.

A quiet dot, not a billboard

At rest there's nothing on your screen but a small teal dot to the right of the notch, your only sign that there's a copy you haven't pasted yet. Calm by default.

There when you want it

Move your cursor up into the notch and it opens into your last copies. No window to launch, no panel to summon, no shortcut to remember.

Your last 5, one hover away

The notch keeps the five most recent things you copied. Hover to see them, the latest in full and the rest stacked below, and click any one to drop it back on your clipboard.

Text and images

Copied a screenshot? It's kept in your history with a thumbnail. Text, links, snippets, pictures: re-copy any of them with a click.

Paste-aware

Press ⌘V and the dot clears. The copy's been used and nothing's left on screen. Copy something new and the dot's back.

Native, local, free

Pure Swift/AppKit. Universal binary, ~1 MB, no Electron. No account, no cloud, nothing leaves your Mac. Free.

How it works.
Two gestures. That's the whole app.

  1. Copy anything

    Hit ⌘C on text or an image. A small teal dot appears to the right of the notch, your only sign that there's an unpasted copy waiting. It's also quietly saved to your history.

  2. Hover to open

    Move your cursor up into the notch and it expands into your last 5 copies, the most recent shown in full and the rest stacked below.

  3. Click to re-copy

    Click any item and it's back on your clipboard, ready to paste. Press ⌘V and the dot clears, with nothing left on screen.

Free.

One universal build. Notarized by Apple. No tiers, no keys.

Download for Mac
Universal · macOS 13+ · ~1 MB

Apple Silicon and Intel in one download. Drag ClipNotch to Applications. There's no Dock icon; it lives in the notch. Best on a MacBook with a notch (it falls back to just under the menu bar otherwise).