I was skeptical when I read the title "yeah, Raycast already does that" but when I visit the site and saw your copy, I am sold. Great work.
Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS
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#122The UI looks great, but 245MB and closed source makes it seem slightly sus for something that has full access to your clipboard.
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#123Very nice work.
Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS
#124Interesting. Will check this out but the Launchbar clipboard manager seems to also meet all the requirements, if you don’t mind pressing spacebar to Quick Look any of the “clips” in your history (I mostly use this for checking images)
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#125I really like the simplicity of this app, but it seems to miss a lot of copy events? Just tested by copy & pasting 9 unique lines in Notes, but Clipbook shows only 3 lines in the history. This is on an M3 Pro running 14.5
Just checked this scenario on macOS 14.4.1 M3 Max. Works well and copy everything.
Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS
#126The UI looks great, but 245MB and closed source makes it seem slightly sus for something that has full access to your clipboard.
This size comes from the SDK I use to build the app — Molybden SDK. It's like Electron, but for C++ developers. This SDK allows me to create UI using React and the business logic using C++.
As for access to the source code — I see that it's very important for lots of people, so I will open the source code on GitHub. It's not a problem at all.
Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS
#127I like the app website. It is simple and easy to read and a bonus point for dark mode support. Is ClipBook a native macOS app? What technologies did you use to make it?
Thanks for your feedback. I love the dark mode too.
ClipBook is written using Molybden SDK. It allows building UI using modern web frontend frameworks like React, Vue, Angular and write business logic using C++. In case of ClipBook: UI — React + shadcn/ui, business logic — C++ + Cocoa. I wouldn't say it's a native macOS app. I would call it a hybrid app that combines web and desktop technologies to build cross-platform desktop apps quickly.
Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS
#128Hey man. Your app is userful. I don't like to remember what i have input. Your app can help me to remember it. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for your feedback. Appreciate that.
Re: Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS
#129I was skeptical when I read the title "yeah, Raycast already does that" but when I visit the site and saw your copy, I am sold. Great work.
Thank you for the feedback. I hope ClipBook will be useful for you.
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#130Looks amazing, love the simplicity Does it support images? Can text clipboard items be edited on the clipboard before pasting? Are you planning on adding snippets? Alfred works really well for me in terms of snippets and clipboard history Except for one use case: quick edits For that, I end up having to paste the content somewhere, change it, (sometimes having to additionally re-copy, then paste in the final destinat…
I didn't enable support for images. It's on the product roadmap. I would like to add support for files too. As for quick edits — I do the same trick too. I will add the quick edit functionality. I miss it too. I'm not planning to add snippets. Alfred and Raycast are really good at this.
Glad to hear this update is coming.