Buffer — Clipboard Manager icon
Buffer — Clipboard Manager icon

Buffer — Clipboard Manager

An open-source clipboard manager for macOS featuring ultra-lightweight local storage, searchable history, instant hotkey access, OCR for extracting text from images, developer-friendly large snippet support, bookmarks for favorites, and no cloud syncing.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
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Features

Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  No registration required
  3.  Dark Mode
  4.  OCR
  5.  No Tracking
  6.  Full-Text Search
  7.  Works Offline
  8.  Support for Hotkeys
  9.  Global hotkey
  10.  Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
  11.  Bookmarks
  12.  Extract text from image
  13.  Favorites

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GitHub repository

  •  426 Stars
  •  27 Forks
  •  30 Open Issues
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What is Buffer — Clipboard Manager?

Why Buffer?

Ultra-lightweight — Only ~2 MB to download/install, with minimal RAM and CPU usage.

100% private & local — Everything stays on your Mac. No cloud, no tracking, no accounts.

Text, images & OCR — Copy anything and extract searchable text from screenshots, images, and memes using Apple’s on-device Vision framework.

Built for developers — Handles large snippets, JSON payloads, logs, code, and verbose clipboard content with ease.

Large-content friendly — Lazy chunked previews and disk-backed storage for multi-MB clipboard items, with size indicators.

Pins & smart history — Pin important items while keeping clipboard history fast and uncluttered.

Multi-select & multi-paste — Select multiple history items and paste them together in one action.

Bookmarks — Star important items with ?B for quick reuse.

Tags & filtering — Organize clipboard history with custom color-coded tags and fast #tag search autocomplete.

Configurable hotkeys — Customize the global shortcut with dynamic hotkey re-registration.

Native macOS experience — Clean SwiftUI + AppKit menu-bar app that feels truly native.

Seamless updates — Secure built-in auto-updater with code-signature verification and native “What’s New” update flows.

Open source — MIT licensed and actively maintained.

Lives in your menu bar. Never leaves your Mac.