For years I used a paid clipboard manager. I bought a license, then the developer changed everything: a subscription, a pricier paid version, sold elsewhere and differently. My license stayed stuck on a version from years ago, no updates, no support. After a while I got fed up and built my own. It's my first real macOS app. It's called encore. ⇧⌘V opens a shelf of your recent copies: text, links, images, files, colors and code, each as a card you can recognize at a glance. Return pastes into the app you were in, Space previews, ↑ opens the full library with search and filters. Version 0.5 came out today: - Snippets: ⌘S on any card gives it a name, a language (guessed among 85) and tags. They get their own tab and never expire - {{placeholders}} ask for a value before pasting - Favorites and snippets sync between your Macs, peer to peer on the local network, end-to-end encrypted, no cloud Everything stays local: no account, no subscription, no telemetry. Native SwiftUI + AppKit, 30 languages, MIT licensed. A few things I learned along the way: - Pasting into "the app you were in" is harder than it sounds: you have to give focus back to the right window at the right moment - Without a paid Apple developer account, a stable self-signed certificate is what keeps the Accessibility permission across updates - Pairing two Macs safely with just a 6-digit code took more reading on ECDH than I expected Website: https://kamasoutra.github.io/encore/ Install: brew install --cask kamasoutra/tap/encore Source: https://github.com/Kamasoutra/encore Not notarized yet, so the first launch needs System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Feedback and feature requests are very welcome!   submitted by   /u/kamasoutra [link]   [comments]