Clip Hold overview

Clip Hold is a clipboard and phrase manager that keeps a history of copied text, lets you save reusable phrases, and provides quick access from the menu bar or with shortcuts. You can assign up to ten items and ten phrases to shortcut keys, group phrases into presets that switch automatically with different applications, use a “Quick Paste” option to insert items directly, pause clipboard tracking with an indicator in the menu bar, exclude specific apps from monitoring, and view color previews for copied color codes.

Clip Hold has a paid version available for purchase from the Mac App Store and a free version available for download from GitHub. The differences between them are as follows.

What’s new in version 1.6.3

Add French (fr), German (de), Spanish (es) localization by generative AI
Add the “Date and Time Display Format” option to the “Menu” section and “History Window” section in General Settings
Fix issue where the “Resume” button did not appear in the notification panel sent when launching the app while clipboard monitoring was paused
Fix issue that preset name in the edit screen for default presets was not localized
Fix “Change History and Copy” to “Change Item and Copy”
Fix issue where the History and Standard Phrases window could not be closed using the Escape key
Fix issue where the default preset icon was not generated
Improve app performance
Improve shortcut keys for the change history and copy screen
Improve the input field box highlighting on the change and copy screens for history and standard phrases, and on the add edit screen for standard phrases, when “Increase Contrast” is enabled in System Settings
Improve to send a notification when the shortcut key for standard phrases that are not set is pressed
Improve the clipboard monitoring indicator in the Privacy Settings when “Differentiate Without Color” is enabled in System Settings
Add a description regarding size calculation to the “Total Size of Saved Folder:” in Copy History Settings
Remove height restrictions on input fields in the history and standard phrases edit screens