Documentation

macOS

Copied lives in the menu bar. After install, look for the clipboard icon at the top-right of your screen. Click it to open the popover — this is where your clipboard history lives.

1. Copy something (text, a link, an image).
2. Open the Copied popover (menu bar or ⌃+⇧+C).
3. Click any row to paste that clipping into the current app.

iOS

Tap Copiedon the Home Screen to open the app. New clippings appear when the app is in the foreground (iOS doesn’t let apps read your clipboard in the background).

• Use the Share sheet in any app → Save to Copied to capture content while you browse or message.
• In Copied, the big teal + button in the action sheet saves whatever is on the clipboard as a new clipping.

Every time you copy, Copied stores it. Text, rich text, images, URLs, and files are all captured. The current clipboard item shows at the top of the list.

The search field at the top of the list fuzzy-matches against title, text, URL, and detected language. On macOS use ⌘+F to focus it from anywhere in the popover.

Fuzzy means characters in order count — typing swft finds Swift. Exact substrings always win over fuzzy matches.

Lists are user-defined collections — like folders for clippings you want to keep together (snippets, meeting notes, recurring replies). Create one from the Lists screen (iOS) or the New List button in the sidebar (macOS).

Assign a clipping to a list from its edit sheet. One list per clipping. On iOS, the main Copied view shows a Your Lists section at the top so you can jump to any list in one tap.

Use Hide List Clippings(action sheet on iOS, toggle on Mac) to hide everything that’s been routed into a list, leaving only your general clipboard stream on the main view.

Every clipping supports a core set of actions. The entry point differs per platform.

On iOS, swipe a row left for Trash, right for Favorite/Copy. On Mac, right-click any row for the full action menu.

iCloud Sync keeps your clipboard history in step across every device signed into the same iCloud account. One-time purchase — no subscription.

Unlock paths

What gets synced

• Clippings (text, rich text, images, URLs)
• Favorites, pins, titles, list assignments
• Trash state (deletions propagate within ~30 seconds)

What doesn’t

• Excluded app lists (per-device setting)
• UI preferences, keyboard shortcut bindings
• Rules / Merge Scripts / Text Formatters (stored per-device for now)

Sync and Universal Clipboard (Handoff)

Apple’s Universal Clipboard (Handoff) works independently of Copied. With sync off, you still get Apple’s instant paste-between-devices for your most recent copy. With sync on, you get both: instant paste and a full persistent history on every device.

Copied ships two iOS Share Sheet extensions so you can capture content from any app without opening Copied first.

Don’t see them? Tap Edit Actions at the bottom of the share sheet and turn them on.

Rules let Copied act on a clipping automatically the moment it’s captured. A rule has a condition (what to match) and an action (what to do).

Example: a rule URL starts with https://github.com → Route to list “Work Links” keeps every GitHub URL organized without you thinking about it.

Text formatters are one-tap transforms that copy the transformed text back to your clipboard. Great for reformatting snippets mid-flow.

Turn individual formatters on/off in Settings → Text Formatters — only enabled ones show in the clipping’s menu.

Merge scripts combine multiple clippings into one. Select clippings (multi-select on iOS, ⌘-click on Mac), tap Merge, pick a script.

Built-ins

Custom scripts

Write your own template in Settings → Merge Scripts. Tokens: {{text}}, {{url}}, {{title}}. The separator is the string placed between each merged clipping.

Copied exposes three App Intents, usable from the Shortcuts app, Siri, or the Home Screen:

Say “Hey Siri, save clipboard to Copied” anywhere in iOS.

Copied is local-first. With iCloud Sync off, nothing leaves your device — no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reports shipped to us. With sync on, your clipboard history is stored in your private CloudKit container, which only you can read.

Full details in the Privacy Policy.

For common issues — missed captures, hotkey not firing, sync not showing rows — the FAQ on the Support page covers the quick fixes.

Still stuck? Email support@getcopied.app with your version number (Settings → About on Mac, Settings footer on iOS) and a short description.