What’s new in Clippresse.

• Copied files stay files. Copy a PDF, a Word document, a presentation or any other file in Finder and Clippresse keeps the file itself, not just its icon: drag it out of the picker or the menu bar list into Mail, Slack, a folder or any app that takes files. Copy several files at once and they stay together as one clip ("Report.pdf and 2 more"); pasting or dragging it gives back every file.
• Drag several clips at once. ⌘-click clips in the picker or the menu bar list to select them (⇧-click selects a run), then drag any of them: they go together, as a stack, into any app that takes them. Text joins into one piece, a line each, for editors that take only one; files and images go as themselves. A badge marks each selected clip, a bar at the bottom counts them, and Esc clears them.
• Snippet placeholders. {date}, {time}, {clipboard} and {cursor} fill themselves in as a snippet expands; {ask:Name} asks for a word in a small panel at the text cursor. The snippet editor has an Insert Placeholder menu and shows what a snippet expands to.
• Search filters. Type app:Safari, type:image, is:pinned, in:Work or date:today (a minus in front leaves them out) in the picker, the menu bar list or the Library. Each shows as a chip, or a token in the Library's search field; click it to take it out. While you type one, Tab finishes it.
• Quicker with a long history. Select All in the Library takes about half as long with 5,000 clips, a search right after launch no longer waits for app names, and the search fields don't spell-check or autocorrect what you type.
• A new icon. A card dropping from the notch, drawn on macOS's icon grid, and a matching menu bar icon (a card with a notch) that follows light and dark.
• Updates built in. Clippresse checks for a new version once a day (Settings → About can turn that off) 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 now. Each download is checked against Clippresse's release key and its code signature before it replaces the app.
• Clippresse Pro. Enter a license key in Settings → License (or Unlock Clippresse Pro… in the menu bar icon's menu). Without one, the picker and the menu bar list show the newest 50 clips and every pinned one, and the Library and Apple Intelligence are locked; older clips are kept, never deleted, and come back with a key. A key is checked with the store once a week; offline, Pro stays on. Deactivate This Mac frees the key for another Mac. A Founder Edition key unlocks the same Pro, and Settings → License and About say so. One key works on up to 5 Macs.
• Pro Monthly. Clippresse Pro for $2.99 a month, the same Pro as the one-time key. Settings → License shows the plan and a Manage Subscription button. The subscription is checked with the store at least once every 30 days; offline longer than that, Clippresse asks to check before Pro comes back.

The first update since 1.0. Your history, pins, folders and snippets carry over. macOS may ask you to allow Accessibility again after updating.

New to Clippresse, or to this version

• Introduction. A first launch opens a four-page welcome: what Clippresse does, what else it can do, allowing Accessibility (what it's for, and what happens to your typing), and an offer of the guide.
• Getting Started guide. A small panel in the corner with eight things to try (copy, open the picker, search, use a clip, pin, ⌘K, the menu bar list, the Library), each ticked off as you do it. It never takes focus, keeps its place until you finish or close it, and opens again from the menu bar icon's menu, Help, or Settings → About.
• What's New. People updating see this version's highlights once, with the guide one click away.

A new look

The picker, the menu bar list, the Library and Settings were rebuilt with macOS's own controls, materials and type (Liquid Glass on macOS 26), in light and dark, with every accent color.

Clip Island

Copies land in the notch, or a simulated one on any display. Hover it for the shelf: your latest clips, a drop zone, a paste queue, a carousel, search and Ask. Secrets count down before they're cleared, QR codes and tables get a glance, and ⌘K results can finish in the notch. Settings → Notch.

Apple Intelligence, on this Mac

⌘K transforms a clip (plain text, lists, JSON, and more) or translates it; smart actions; Ask your clipboard; smart titles and tags; Combine clips; image smarts (text and codes in pictures); Today; and, on macOS 27, Describe pictures. Nothing leaves the Mac. Settings → Intelligence.

Copy effects

Each copy flies into the menu bar icon, in one of several styles (or none), with moments for cuts, secrets, bursts and pastes. Settings → Effects.

Privacy

The sensitive-data 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. Copies from password managers are never saved. Settings → Privacy.

History

• Keep up to 5,000 clips (up from 500).
• Settings → General shows the space the history takes, and how much is pictures.
• Keep pictures for: old pictures can go sooner than other clips.

Accessibility and speed

VoiceOver reaches everything, the notch shelf included, and the island's messages read as sentences. Increase Contrast and Reduce Transparency are respected. With 5,000 clips the picker, menu bar list and Library stay responsive.

The first release.