macOS · Menu bar

Three clipboards.
Zero history.

DualClip gives you three dedicated clipboard slots — A, B, C — with their own keyboard shortcuts. Decide where things go. Recall them instantly. Nothing ever touches the disk.

$brew install RAKKUNN/tap/dualclip
MIT licensedmacOS 13+Universal binary
copy →
+C
A
copy →
++C
B
copy →
++C
C
The insight

You don’t want to remember what you copied.
You want to decide where it goes.

Clipboard history apps make you scroll. Search. Recognize. They turn a one-key action into a small UI puzzle. DualClip flips it: stash deliberately, recall by muscle memory.

How it works

Two shortcuts per slot. That’s the entire app.

const handleCopy = () => { ... }
|
BhandleCopy()
Aempty
BhandleCopy()
Cempty
⌘C / ⌘V
untouched ✓
  1. 01

    Copy to a slot

    Highlight any text, image or file. Press the slot’s copy shortcut. It lands in slot A, B or C.

    ++CB
  2. 02

    Paste from a slot

    Anywhere in macOS, hit the matching paste shortcut. The slot’s contents drop in atomically.

    ++VB
  3. 03

    ⌘C / ⌘V untouched

    Your normal system clipboard keeps doing its thing. DualClip lives next to it, never on top of it.

    +C
Features

Seven things, all small, none of them surprises.

3 dedicated slots

A, B and C — labelled, isolated, instantly addressable. No history list to scroll.

Customizable shortcuts

Bind copy & paste to any modifier combination. Defaults make sense; rebinds take seconds.

Atomic paste · ~200ms

DualClip swaps in your slot, pastes, and restores your system clipboard before you blink. Tune the timing if an app needs longer.

Menu bar popover

A peek at what’s in each slot — text, code, or image preview — without leaving the keyboard.

RAM-only

Slot contents live in memory. Quit the app or shut down the Mac and they’re gone.

Zero network

No telemetry, no analytics, no cloud, no accounts. The source code says so.

Universal binary

One download runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Signed and notarized by Apple.

See it

Text, code, images. Same three keys.

DualClip — text demo
DualClip stashing and recalling three text snippets
vs clipboard history

Same problem, different shape.

History managers
paste, maccy, raycast, et al.
DualClip
slot-based
Approach
Time-ordered list
Three named slots
Recall model
Open UI, scroll, click
Press one shortcut
Disk writes
Database / SQLite
None — RAM only
Network
Often telemetry / cloud sync
None
Mental model
"What did I copy earlier?"
"I put that in B."
Open source

Auditable, MIT-licensed, refreshingly boring.

Every line of the app is on GitHub. There is no server. There is no analytics endpoint. Slot contents live in a Swift array in RAM and are wiped when the process exits. You can read the code in an afternoon.

No persistence
// no FileManager, no UserDefaults for slot data
No network
// app sandbox: outgoing-network entitlement off
Signed & notarized
// Developer ID + Apple notarization
Install

One command. Or one download.

01
Homebrew
recommended
$brew install RAKKUNN/tap/dualclip

02
Direct download
.zip from GitHub releases
Latest release

Signed & notarized by Apple
macOS 13 (Ventura) or laterApple Silicon & Intel