Features
Everything your clipboard should have already done
SnipTray was built for people who copy and paste hundreds of times a day, on multiple Apple devices, often as part of a team. Here is everything it does — and why each piece matters.
Find any clip you ever copied — in seconds
SnipTray quietly remembers every text snippet, image, link, color, and file you copy. No more re-typing the same thing twice or hunting through old documents. Open the tray with a single hotkey and your entire history is right there, sorted by recency, searchable instantly.
- Unlimited clipboard history on Pro and Teams
- Spotlight-style fuzzy search across text, file names, and source apps
- Smart filters: text, images, links, colors, files, code
Clipboard history
Organize the clips you reach for every day
Group the things you paste constantly — email signatures, billing addresses, shipping templates, code blocks, brand colors — into Pinboards. Drag and drop, color-code, give them shortcuts, and they are always one keystroke away. Snippets support dynamic variables like the current date, clipboard contents, and form fields.
- Unlimited pinboards with custom icons and colors
- Dynamic snippet variables ({date}, {clipboard}, {ask})
- Trigger snippets by keyboard shortcut or by typing a keyword
Share clipboards with your team — securely via iCloud
SnipTray is the first clipboard manager built around iCloud sharing. Create a shared pinboard, invite your teammates by email or iCloud handle, and every snippet you add appears on their devices instantly. No third-party servers, no extra accounts, no data leaving the Apple ecosystem.
- Invite teammates by email or iCloud — no separate signup
- Role-based access: viewer, editor, admin
- Real-time sync, conflict-free, end-to-end via iCloud
- Audit log for Teams plan — see who added or edited what
Shared with team
5 membersOne clipboard across Mac, iPhone, and iPad
Copy a link on your iPhone, paste it on your Mac. Copy a code block on your Mac, paste it on your iPad. SnipTray uses native iCloud sync, so your full clipboard history follows you across every Apple device you sign in to — securely, end-to-end, without configuration.
- Universal Clipboard, but with full history
- Works offline; syncs the moment you reconnect
- iCloud-only — no third-party servers, no analytics
A clipboard manager that respects your keyboard
SnipTray was designed for people who never want to touch the mouse. A global hotkey opens the tray, arrow keys navigate, return pastes, and command-number jumps to a pinned snippet. Power users can build entire workflows without ever leaving the keyboard.
- Customizable global hotkey (default ⌘⇧V)
- Per-snippet shortcuts (⌘⇧1 through ⌘⇧9)
- Quick paste-and-dismiss with a single keystroke
Every clip looks the way you copied it
SnipTray gives you proper previews for everything you copy. Hex colors render as swatches, JSON pretty-prints, code is syntax-highlighted, images show inline, links unfurl with titles. You always know what you are about to paste before you paste it.
- Color swatches for hex, RGB, HSL, and OKLCH values
- Syntax highlighting for 80+ programming languages
- Image, file, and URL previews with metadata
- Pretty-printed JSON, formatted Markdown, decoded base64
Color
#1B6EF3
rgb(27, 110, 243)
Code · TypeScript
const { sync } = await iCloud.share(boardId, {
members: invitees,
role: 'editor',
});JSON
{ "id": 42, "active": true }Your clipboard is yours — and stays yours
A clipboard manager has access to everything you copy, including passwords, tokens, and private messages. SnipTray takes that responsibility seriously. Sensitive data is auto-detected and excluded. Apps you mark private (like 1Password) never have their clipboard recorded. And nothing — ever — leaves your iCloud.
- Auto-detects and skips passwords, 2FA codes, and credit cards
- App exclusion list — never record from selected apps
- No analytics, no telemetry, no third-party tracking
- Optional auto-clear after 1 hour, 1 day, or 1 week
No tracking. No servers.
Your clipboard never leaves your iCloud.
- ✓ End-to-end via iCloud
- ✓ Auto-detect passwords & 2FA codes
- ✓ Per-app exclusion list
Plugs into Apple Shortcuts and your workflows
SnipTray exposes its history, pinboards, and snippets to Apple Shortcuts so you can build automations around your clipboard. Save the last copied item to a note, send a snippet to a teammate, paste a templated reply into Mail — all without writing a single line of code.
- Native Apple Shortcuts actions for read, write, search, paste
- Trigger snippets from Stream Deck, Raycast, Alfred, BetterTouchTool
- URL scheme for deep linking into specific snippets
Read last clip
SnipTray
Format as Markdown
Shortcuts
Send to Slack
Slack
Native Mac performance, zero bloat
SnipTray is a true native macOS app written in Swift. It launches in milliseconds, idles at near-zero CPU and memory, and stays out of the way until you need it. No Electron, no Chromium, no surprises on your battery life.
- 100% native Swift / SwiftUI — no Electron
- <20 MB RAM idle, <0.1% CPU when not in use
- Designed for Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4)
Resource use
18 MB
Idle RAM
0.1%
Idle CPU
< 100 ms
Tray open time
Features FAQ
Common questions about SnipTray's features
Everything users ask before they switch from Paste, Pastebot, or the built-in macOS clipboard.
Does SnipTray have unlimited clipboard history?
What file types can SnipTray store in its clipboard history?
How does iCloud team sharing work in SnipTray?
Does SnipTray sync between Mac, iPhone, and iPad?
What is the default keyboard shortcut for the SnipTray clipboard?
Will SnipTray store my passwords or sensitive data?
Ready to upgrade your clipboard?
Start free on one Mac. Move to Pro for unlimited history and iCloud sync, or to Teams when you want to share with your squad.