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Copy 'Em for Mac

Powerful clipboard menulet for copy and paste.

$14.99
In English
Version 3.0.0
4.9
Based on 20 user rates

Copy 'Em overview

Copy 'Em is a powerful clipboard manager for turbocharging your daily workflow. It records your clipboard history of copied text, images, links, and screenshots, etc., and lets you recall/paste them anytime, right at your fingertips. Use it to copy and paste items in batches (so minimizing switching between apps), capture screenshots and collect research data, store favorite items permanently, paste frequent snippets via keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop images as file attachments, strip text formats or transform text, organize items into lists, sort and label them, look them up by keywords/types, preview and edit their text, and sync them between Macs, iPhones, and iPads. All done with speed and reliability. It is a valuable time-saver that is both rich in features and easy to use!

Key Features
  • Automatically remembers the things copied by regular copy/cut commands
  • Accepts text, images, links, HTML, code, PDFs, files, and clippings of proprietary formats
  • Can store unlimited number of items
  • Export all or selected items to disk, and import them back on any Mac; e.g., use them as backups or share them
  • Automatically sync your data and preferences through your own iCloud account
  • Click the app's menubar icon or press Command-Shift-V (customizable) to open the app window
  • Can paste items via drag-and-drop into target applications
  • Can be configured to paste into VNC, NoMachine, Parallels, etc.
  • Can paste multiple snippets together, across multiple lines, form fields, or spreadsheet cells
  • Can paste items with local shortcuts ('0' to '9' and 'a' to 'z')
  • Can paste items with unlimited number of global shortcuts
  • Plain-text mode option to paste any rich text as plain text
  • Hold Option key to switch between pasting text as plain text or rich text (i.e., temporarily do the opposite of plain-text mode)
  • Text transformation options (capitalization, line-unwrapping, stripping whitespace, adding prefixes/suffixes, etc.)
  • Option to paste text items as files
  • Can paste images as files of original or different image formats
  • Can enable/disable paste transformations with global shortcuts
  • Press Space or Left-Arrow key to preview items in a large, resizable popover window
  • Unlimited number of lists for you to organize your favorite items
  • Auto-star mode where newly arrived items are automatically put into the current starred list
  • Can open specific lists via keyboard shortcuts
  • Use swiping or Command-[ and Command-] shortcuts to navigate backward and forward between lists
  • Sort items by drag-and-drop, creation dates, most-recently-used dates, and paste frequency, etc.
  • Each list can be sorted in its own sort order
  • Find items by search, content-type filtering, and application-name filtering
  • Fast searching, with search-as-you-type, and options to auto-focus and auto-clear the search field
  • Can edit text items
  • Can assign names to items or edit them
  • Open app window next to current mouse location (in order to minimize mouse movement)
  • Option to keep the window open after each paste operation; by default, the window automatically closes after use
  • Capture screenshots (full screen, windows, selected areas, etc.)
  • Blacklist applications, so clippings from them won't be saved
  • Stop (or resume) recording new clippings
  • Can delete selected items, selected sets, or entire lists
  • Can lock starred items from accidental deletion
  • Change the theme, with option to show text items in original colors or grayscale
  • Automatically switch theme according to the OS theme setting
  • Option to play sounds when copying and/or pasting

This Mac app can sync with Copy 'Em for iPhone and iPad, which is separately available on the App Store. (The two apps are sold separately.)

What’s new in version 3.0.0

New:
  • On macOS 13 or later, Copy 'Em no longer needs its helper app. But if the helper app is installed, Copy ‘Em will continue using it like before.
  • On macOS 13 or later, new 'Download Link Previews' option under Preferences for downloading thumbnail previews of image-associated links
  • On macOS 13 or later, you can now view the contents of copied files, by right-clicking a file entry and selecting Quick View
  • New ‘Share…’ menu option in the contextual menu for sharing items with participating apps
  • New color preview for color codes that have patterns like #rgb, #rrggbb, #rrggbbaa, rgb(…), rgba(…), etc.
  • New option “Show Rich Text in Same Font” under the gear button > Preferences > Window Preferences for displaying rich text in the same font
  • Customizable local keyboard shortcuts for the “My Shortcuts” and “Unstarred” lists, under the gear button > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts > Local Shortcuts
  • The latest Copy 'Em requires macOS 10.15 or later to run
Others:
  • Fixed an issue where clicking the file path of a copied file entry in Quick View didn’t show the file in Finder
  • Fixed an issue where passwords copied from the latest version of Enpass could not be ignored
  • Fixed an issue where passwords copied from Keychain Access couldn't be ignored even if Keychain Access was in the ignore list
  • Fixed an issue where consecutively pressing “Unrecorded copy” shortcut would result in app pausing recording of subsequently copied items
  • Renamed “Get Titles of Web URLs” option to “Download Link Titles”
  • Other bug fixes

Copy 'Em for Mac

$14.99
In English
Version 3.0.0
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4.9

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zlazkow
zlazkow
Dec 29 2023
3.0.0
5.0
Dec 29 2023
5.0
Version: 3.0.0
King of pasteboards.
Macmeyou
Macmeyou
Apr 28 2023
3.0.0
5.0
Apr 28 2023
5.0
Version: 3.0.0
Best clipboard manager. Sync with iPad and Mac. Search and edit yours clipboard items. Sort them in categories. Well done!!!
zlazkow
zlazkow
Apr 6 2023
3.0.0
5.0
Apr 6 2023
5.0
Version: 3.0.0
Copy'Em is in the top 5 copy/paste applications. I have all of them: Copy'Em, CopyLess, Paste Wizard, iClip, and Pasta. Unfortunately Pasta is extremely heavy on resources, especially memory. So I don't use it anymore, although it's very very useful, as you can see all clips clearly in one go.
frans-3
frans-3
Apr 26 2022
2.12.1
0.0
Apr 26 2022
0.0
Version: 2.12.1
Version 2.12.1 (April 26th) crashes on M1 MacBook...
RogerKatz
RogerKatz
Apr 26 2022
2.12
0.0
Apr 26 2022
0.0
Version: 2.12
The current version at Mac App Store is 2.12.1
Maclover1-1
Maclover1-1
Jun 23 2024
3.0.0
4.0
Jun 23 2024
4.0
Version: 3.0.0
Macmeyou
Macmeyou
Apr 28 2023
3.0.0
5.0
Apr 28 2023
5.0
Version: 3.0.0
zlazkow
zlazkow
Apr 6 2023
3.0.0
5.0
Apr 6 2023
5.0
Version: 3.0.0
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5.0
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