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hukdoesn/nimclip — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-05-18

45SwiftAudience · generalComplexity · 1/5LicenseSetup · easy

tl;dr

A free, local-first Mac menu bar app that keeps a searchable history of everything you copy, including text, links, code, and images.

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  root((repo))
    What it does
      Records clipboard history
      Searches by content or OCR text
      Tags and favorites items
    Tech stack
      Swift
      SwiftUI
      SwiftData
    Use cases
      Recall something copied earlier
      Search inside copied images
      Combine multiple snippets into one paste
    Audience
      Mac users
      Developers

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Recover something you copied earlier that has since been overwritten on the clipboard.

VIBE 2

Search for an image by text that was recognized inside it using on-device OCR.

VIBE 3

Tag and star frequently reused snippets like code or links for quick access.

VIBE 4

Combine several separately copied text snippets into a single paste in a chosen order.

what's the stack?

SwiftSwiftUISwiftDatamacOS

how it stacks up fr

hukdoesn/nimclipmaclifevn/mcleanwondaggvcb-oss/lazy-bear-desktop
Stars454546
LanguageSwiftSwiftSwift
Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity1/52/52/5
Audiencegeneralgeneralgeneral

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · easy time til it works · 5min

Requires macOS 15.0 or later, direct paste needs accessibility permission, otherwise it falls back to copy only.

Free to use, modify, and distribute, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright and license notice.

in plain english

Nimclip is a free, open source clipboard history manager for the Mac. It lives in your menu bar and keeps a running history of everything you copy, since the built in macOS clipboard only remembers the single most recent item and overwrites it as soon as you copy something new. Pressing Command Shift V opens the history so you can find, organize, and paste anything you copied earlier. It records text, links, code, images, and rich text, and keeps track of which app each item came from. It automatically recognizes links and common code content so you can filter the list down to just text, links, code, or images, and you can search by the content itself, by text recognized inside images, by the source app, or by tags. Items can be starred as favorites, tagged with colored labels, and multiple text snippets can be selected in order and copied or pasted together as one combined block. Copying the same thing twice just refreshes its position at the top instead of creating a duplicate entry. For images, Nimclip runs Apple's own on device Vision text recognition so you can later search for an image by the words that appear inside it, without ever uploading anything. All data, including images, stays only on your Mac in a local SwiftData database backed by SQLite, no account is required, and nothing is sent anywhere except a check against GitHub's public release page to see if a new version is available. You can set a history limit between 100 and 5000 items and a retention window between 1 and 365 days, and once the limit is reached the oldest unstarred items are removed automatically while favorites are kept. The app supports light and dark appearance, switches instantly between Simplified Chinese and English, and can optionally launch at login. Nimclip is built with Swift, SwiftUI, and SwiftData, requires macOS 15.0 or later, and ships as separate downloads for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. It can also be built from source using Xcode 16 and Swift 6, with a packaging script included for producing signed distributable zip files. It is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

prompts (copy fr)

prompt 1
Show me how to build Nimclip from source using Xcode and the package.sh script.
prompt 2
Help me troubleshoot macOS blocking Nimclip from opening on first launch.
prompt 3
Explain how Nimclip's on-device OCR indexing works and how to rebuild it for old images.
prompt 4
Walk me through granting Nimclip accessibility permission for direct paste.

Frequently asked questions

what is nimclip fr?

A free, local-first Mac menu bar app that keeps a searchable history of everything you copy, including text, links, code, and images.

What language is nimclip written in?

Mainly Swift. The stack also includes Swift, SwiftUI, SwiftData.

What license does nimclip use?

Free to use, modify, and distribute, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright and license notice.

How hard is nimclip to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is nimclip for?

Mainly general.

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