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Keep 5, 10, 15 items or everything. Copy the same thing twice and it moves to the top instead of piling up.
5·10·15·all
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Bocha Copy lives in your Mac’s menu bar and remembers everything you copy. A quick ⌘V pastes as usual. Hold it — and your history opens right at the cursor: pick what to paste.
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↑↓ select · Return or 1–9 paste · Esc close
A quick ⌘V pastes the latest
Your turn: copy any text on this page or click a floating card, then hold ⌘V in the note. No keyboard? Hold the ⌘V key under the window.
How it works
Copy as always. Choose what to paste.
No window to open and no new shortcut to learn. The app waits in the menu bar and answers to the ⌘V you already use.
Copy as usual
⌘C, the Edit menu, a right click — whatever lands on the clipboard is saved: text with formatting, images, files.
Tap ⌘V
A quick press works exactly as before: the latest item is pasted. Nothing to relearn.
Hold — and pick
Keep ⌘V down for half a second and the history opens at the cursor. Arrows and Return, digits 1–9, the mouse, or just type to search.
Small things that add up
A history you actually use.
The basics need no settings at all. Everything else is one click away in the menu bar.
Right at the cursor
History opens where you are typing, not in a corner of the screen. Focus stays in your app, so the paste lands where you expect.
↑↓·Return·1–9
Not just text
Formatting, links, images from the browser and files from Finder are pasted the way you copied them.
Text·Images·Files
Passwords stay out
What password managers mark as secret never gets into the history. In password fields ⌘V works as usual.
••••••••→not saved
Coming next
Screenshots, in the same history.
Snap a region with a shortcut: it lands in a folder and on the clipboard, with a thumbnail in the corner. Blur brush with an adjustable size, arrows and numbers — and the same ⌘V pastes any of your recent shots.
Privacy
Your clipboard stays on your Mac.
The history lives only on this Mac’s disk, in a folder only you can read. There is no account, no analytics and no server that receives what you copy.
- Nothing you copy is sent anywhere.
- No account, no ads, no telemetry.
- The only network request checks bochacopy.com for updates, at most once a day. You can turn it off.
- Items that password managers mark as secret are never saved.
- Updates are signed: the app installs only versions signed with the same key.
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Setup
A minute to set up.
One download and one permission stand between you and your first hold of ⌘V.
Install the app
Open the DMG and drag Bocha Copy into Applications. The first time, allow it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
Allow Accessibility
It lets the app tell a hold of ⌘V from a quick press and paste your pick for you. The app opens the right settings page.
Hold ⌘V
Copy a few things and hold ⌘V in any app. New versions install themselves — history, settings and permissions stay.
FAQ
Questions and answers
Short answers about privacy, permissions and updates.
Is it free?
Yes. No subscription, no account, no ads.
Does Bocha Copy send my clipboard anywhere?
No. The history is stored only on your Mac. The app goes online for one thing: it reads bochacopy.com/release.json to check for updates, at most once a day.
Why does it need Accessibility?
To tell a hold of ⌘V from a quick press and to paste the item you picked. Without it the history is still recorded — you open it from the menu bar and paste yourself.
What about passwords?
Password managers tag copied secrets with a special marker, and Bocha Copy skips such items. In password fields macOS turns on secure input, and ⌘V there works as usual.
Does it run on Intel Macs?
No: Apple Silicon (M1 and newer) with macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
Why does macOS warn me the first time?
The app is signed with its own certificate but is not notarized by Apple. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway — once.
How do updates work?
By themselves: the app finds a new version, downloads it, checks the signature and restarts. History, settings and permissions stay.
And screenshots?
Coming next: a shortcut, a thumbnail, a blur brush, arrows and numbers — all in the same history.
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