Help

Clippresse Help.

Everything you need to get going, and answers for when something isn’t right.

Getting started

Install it. Open Clippresse.dmg and drag Clippresse to Applications. Download
Open it. The first time, macOS says it can’t verify Clippresse, because the beta isn’t notarized yet: click Done, then Open Anyway in System Settings → Privacy & Security (step by step). A short welcome shows what Clippresse does and asks for Accessibility (see below).
Copy something. Select text in any app and press ⌘C. It lands in the notch, with the app it came from.
Get it back. Press ⇧⌘V in any app. Type a word to search, pick a clip with ↑↓ and press Return.

The Getting Started guide, a small panel in the corner with eight things to try, ticks each one off as you do it. Open it again from the menu bar icon’s menu, Help, or Settings → About.

Shortcuts

Anywhere

⇧⌘V: Show the picker. Opens your clips at the text cursor.
⌥⇧⌘V: Paste next in sequence. Pastes your clips one after another, newest first.
⌃⌘V: Type latest clip. Types the newest text clip, for fields that block pasting.

Open the menu bar list, Paste latest as plain text, and Pause or resume recording have no shortcut until you set one. Change any of them in Settings → Shortcuts.

In the picker

↑↓: Choose a clip
Return: Copy it (or paste it: Settings → General)
⌘Return: The other one: paste instead of copy, or the reverse
⌥Return: Paste as plain text
⌘1–9: Use the clip in that row
⌘P: Pin or unpin
⌘K: Transform or translate with Apple Intelligence
⇧Return: Ask your clipboard
Space: Quick Look (when the search is empty)
⌘⌫: Delete the clip; ⌘Z brings it back
Tab: Finish a filter you’re typing, or switch the type of clip
⌘L: Open the Library
Esc: Clear the search, then close

The notch

Every copy lands in the notch: Clip Island. Hover over it for the shelf, with your latest clips, a drop zone, a paste queue, a carousel, search and Ask.

No notch? On a Mac without one, or on an external display, Clippresse draws a notch of its own at the top of the screen, and everything works the same.

Settings → Notch turns Clip Island on or off and sets what it shows. Settings → Effects picks how each copy flies in, or turns the effects off.

Snippets

A snippet is text you type often, behind a short abbreviation like ;thanks. Type the abbreviation in any app and Clippresse writes the rest. Make and edit snippets in the Library’s Snippets section (Clippresse Pro).

{date}: Today’s date
{time}: The time now
{clipboard}: The text you copied last
{cursor}: Where the text cursor lands when it’s done
{ask:Name}: Asks you for a word as it expands, in a small panel at the cursor

The snippet editor’s Insert Placeholder menu adds them for you and shows what the snippet expands to. Snippets need Accessibility; turn off Expand snippets as you type in Settings → Snippets any time.

Apple Intelligence

With Clippresse Pro, ⌘K on a text clip turns it into plain text, a list, JSON and more, or translates it. Ask your clipboard, smart titles and tags, Combine, text and codes in pictures, and Today all run on your Mac; nothing you copy leaves it.

These need macOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence turned on in System Settings. Translate needs macOS 15 or later, and Describe pictures needs macOS 27. Settings → Intelligence turns each part on or off.

Privacy

Your clips stay on your Mac. Clippresse has no account and no servers of its own.
The privacy guard spots keys, card numbers and passwords as you copy. They’re masked, kept out of Apple Intelligence and backups, and can be deleted after a set time.
Password managers: copies from them are never saved.
Screen sharing: turn on “Hide clips from screenshots and screen sharing” to keep Clippresse’s windows out of recordings and calls.

All of this is in Settings → Privacy. What Clippresse sends over the internet (very little) is in the privacy policy.

Accessibility permission

What it’s for: pasting into other apps, expanding snippets, and opening the picker at your text cursor. Copying and the notch work without it.

Your typing stays yours. Snippets look for their abbreviations as you type. Nothing you type is kept or sent anywhere.

To allow it: open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility and turn on Clippresse.

After an update, macOS may ask again. If pasting stops working, select Clippresse in that list, remove it with the minus button, then turn it on again when Clippresse asks.

Your license

To activate: open Settings → License (or choose Unlock Clippresse Pro… in the menu bar icon’s menu), paste the key from your email and click Activate.

To move it to another Mac: on the old Mac, choose Deactivate This Mac… in Settings → License, then activate on the new one. A key works on up to 5 Macs at a time.

Pro Monthly: manage or cancel it on Lemon Squeezy’s My Orders page. After you cancel, Pro stays on until the end of the month you’ve paid for, then Clippresse goes back to the free version. Your clips are kept.

Offline? The key is checked with the store once a week; if your Mac is offline, Pro stays on. A Pro Monthly key needs to reach the store at least once every 30 days; offline longer than that, Pro pauses until it can check again. Lost your key? Email us from the address you bought with. More in license questions.

Updates

Clippresse checks for a new version once a day and shows what’s in it before anything happens: Install and Relaunch, Later, or Skip This Version. Check for Updates… in the menu bar icon’s menu asks right away, and Settings → About turns the daily check off. Every download is checked against Clippresse’s release key before it replaces the app. What’s new

Contact

Something not working, or an idea? Email [email protected]. Include your macOS version and Clippresse’s version (Settings → About), and what you did just before it went wrong. Never send a license key or anything you copied unless we ask for it.