Buffer

A lightweight, beautiful clipboard manager for macOS

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✨ Why Buffer?

• Ultra-lightweight — Only ~2 MB download/install, minimal RAM/CPU usage
• 100% Private & Local — Everything stays on your Mac, no cloud, no tracking
• Text + Images + OCR — Copies anything; extracts searchable text from images/screenshots/memes using on-device Vision
• Great for developers — Handles large text snippets, JSON payloads, logs, and other verbose content with ease
• Large-content friendly — Lazy, chunked previews and disk-backed storage for multi‑MB text, with size indicators
• Pins & Smart History — Pin favorites, keep them anchored, and cycle history while prioritizing unpinned items
• Multi-select & multi‑paste — Select multiple items in history with clear on-screen instructions, paste them together, or bulk-delete with inline confirmation
• Bookmarks — Star important items with Cmd+B for quick reuse
• Tags & Filtering — Categorize history items with custom, color-coded tags. Quick tag items with Cmd+T and filter using # autocomplete in the search bar
• Configurable hotkeys — Change the global shortcut in Settings with dynamic re-registration
• Native macOS Feel — Clean SwiftUI + AppKit menu-bar app
• Seamless Updates — Built-in secure auto-updater with code signature verification and a native post-update HUD with a "What's New" link
• Inline Text Editing — Edit any text or code snippet directly within the clipboard history window with auto-save and macOS pasteboard sync
• Open Source — MIT license, actively maintained

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📥 Download

 

1. Download the .dmg from the latest release
2. Drag Buffer.app to your Applications folder
3. Launch it (lives in menu bar)

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🛣️ Coming Next

• Multi‑paste support for quickly pasting multiple items in sequence

🚀 Getting Started

1. Download the .dmg file from above
2. Drag Buffer to your Applications folder
3. Launch Buffer — it will appear in your menu bar
4. Copy anything — Buffer automatically saves it
5. Press ⇧⌘V to access your clipboard history anytime!

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🖥️ Screenshots

Beautiful split-pane interface with search and preview

Multi select & paste

Tags

Inline Text Editing

Click the Pencil icon in the preview/detail pane to open an inline text editor and modify any text item directly. While editing, global keyboard shortcuts are temporarily bypassed so you can type normally. Press Escape, click the pencil icon again, or select a different item to auto-save your changes and sync them to the system pasteboard.

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⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
⇧⌘V	Open clipboard history
↑ / ↓	Navigate items
⇧↑ / ⇧↓	Expand selection (Multi-select)
↵ Enter	Paste selected item
⌘C	Copy selected item text to clipboard
⌘P	Pin / unpin selected item
⌘B	Bookmark / unbookmark selected item
⌘T	Add tag to selected item
⌘S	Save image to disk (for image items)
⌘⌫	Delete selected item
⎋ Esc	Close history window

📝 Inline Text Editing

Text items can be edited directly within Buffer by clicking the Pencil icon in the preview/detail pane, which opens an inline text editor. While editing:

• Global keyboard shortcuts are temporarily bypassed so you can type normally without triggering shortcuts.
• Press Escape, click the pencil icon again, or select a different item in the list to auto-save your changes and sync them to the macOS pasteboard.

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🛠️ Building from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/samirpatil2000/Buffer.git
cd Buffer

# Open in Xcode
open Buffer.xcodeproj

# Build and run
# Press ⌘R in Xcode

Requirements

• macOS 13.0 or later
• Xcode 15.0 or later
• Swift 5.9

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Star History

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to:

• Report bugs
• Suggest features
• Submit pull requests

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📄 License

MIT License — feel free to use this project however you like.

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Made with ❤️ for macOS