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macOS 13+ · free for personal use

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big paste energy

Small app. Big memory.

Four small things it does so you never lose a copy again.

Remembers copies

Every copy slides into a numbered history. Re-copy something and it jumps back to the top — no duplicates.

Text, images & files

Rich text, screenshots, copied files — all captured with a tidy preview so you know what's what.

Paste with ⌘⌥V

Hit the shortcut, press 1–9, done. It auto-pastes straight into whatever app you were just in.

Survives reboots

Your history persists across quit and restart, and the app can launch quietly at login.

how to use it

Three taps to muscle memory

It lives in your menu bar and stays out of the way until the moment you need something back.

1

Just keep copying

Use ⌘C like always. clip and cue watches quietly and stacks each copy into a numbered list — newest on top. Nothing to think about.

clip and cue ⌘⌥V
1Quarterly report — final numbers look strongText
2Image · 1920×1080PNG · 2.3 MB
3https://clipandcue.com/downloadText
4report.pdf +2 moreFiles
5hello@clipandcue.comText
Clear · ExportHow to · Preferences · Quit
2

Summon the panel — ⌘⌥V

A floating picker appears right where you're working. Press 1–9 to grab an item, or arrow through with ↑ ↓ and hit ⏎. Esc dismisses it.

Paste from clip and cue
1Quarterly report — final numbers look strongText
2Image · 1920×1080PNG · 2.3 MB
3https://clipandcue.com/downloadText
4report.pdf +2 moreFiles
1–9 pick↑↓ move⏎ pasteesc close
3

It pastes itself

clip and cue drops the item straight into the app you were just using — no extra ⌘V needed. (First time, macOS will ask for Accessibility access so it can paste for you.)

mike — -zsh — 80×24
mike@mac ~ % ▌
⌘⌥V
Drop saved keys into the terminal
T t.tutone
I have all the links right here
www.preshow.link/hesgotmynumber
www.toyrobotmedia.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo
Thanks for the quick work Jenny
⌘⌥V
iMessage
Fire a stack of links into a chat
Paste your saved images
⌘⌥V
No more tab-grab-tab — paste a stack of images
dns · clipandcue.com
A records → GitHub Pages
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⌘⌥V
A whole list of records, in order
captures everything

If you can copy it, you can cue it

Go on, it's ok to keep copying, pretty much anything.

Plain text Rich text Images Files

An honest privacy note

clip and cue captures everything — including items password managers mark as concealed — and stores history unencrypted on disk at ~/Library/Application Support/clipandcue/. Hit Clear any time to wipe it. Copies above your size cap (default 20 MB) aren't saved — you'll get an icon flash instead.

Get clip and cue

Free for personal use, and about as light as a menu bar app gets.

Free for personal use · CC BY-NC 4.0 · macOS 13+
License & what you're agreeing to
clip and cue is © 2026 Michael Moore, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). By downloading you acknowledge:
  • You're free to use, share and adapt it for non-commercial purposes.
  • You must give appropriate attribution to the author.
  • Commercial use is not permitted without permission.
  • The software is provided “as is”, with no warranty, and the author is not liable for any damages or data loss.
  • Your clipboard history is stored unencrypted on your own Mac and is never transmitted anywhere — you're responsible for clearing sensitive items.
  • The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens normally — no security warning.

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