Your clipboard, organized.

A fast, native clipboard manager for macOS. Search your entire copy history, pin favorites, and paste with a single keystroke.

Or install via Homebrew
$ brew tap fatihsen-dev/shelf
$ brew install --cask shelf

Built for speed.

Pure AppKit. No Electron, no SwiftUI runtime, no third-party dependencies.

Instant search

Incremental filtering across your entire history. Find anything in milliseconds.

Universal types

Text, links, colors, images, and files — Shelf captures everything you copy.

Global hotkey

Press ⌥V from anywhere to summon the picker at the bottom of your screen.

Pin favorites

Keep snippets you use often at the top — pinned items never expire.

Menu bar access

Quick previews of recent items without opening the full picker.

Local-only

Everything stays on your Mac. No cloud, no analytics, no account.

See it in action.

Designed to feel native on macOS — fast, quiet, and out of your way.

Your full copy history

Every item you've copied — text, links, colors, images, files — lined up in a horizontal shelf, ready to recall.

Clipboard history view

Search that just works

Start typing — results filter instantly across your entire history. No indexing delay, no waiting.

Instant search

Tune it to your workflow

Customizable hotkeys, themes, history size, and more — Shelf adapts to how you work.

Settings window

Always one click away

The menu bar icon shows your most recent items at a glance — no need to open the main window.

Menu bar dropdown

Your clipboard, your data.

Shelf stores your clipboard history exclusively on your Mac. Nothing is sent to remote servers. There is no analytics, no telemetry, and no account system.

Read the privacy policy →