Clipy is a Clipboard extension app for macOS — Apple Silicon only (arm64). No Rosetta 2 required.
Requirement: Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later), macOS 13 Ventura or later
Note: This fork removes Intel (x86_64) support. Apple is ending Rosetta 2 support in a future macOS release. This build targets arm64 natively and does not run on Intel Macs.
Unzip and move Clipy.app to /Applications. On first launch, right-click → Open (the build is ad-hoc signed, not notarized).
brew tap xgitqa/clipy-apple-silicon
brew install --cask clipy-apple-silicon
- Security: Replaced all deprecated
NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObjectcalls with the modernNSKeyedUnarchiverinstance API, eliminating insecure deserialization warnings. - Stability: Replaced all force-try (
try!) Realm database calls with proper error handling — the app now shows a clear error dialog instead of crashing if the database cannot be opened. - CI: Added a Release build step with
lipo -verify_arch arm64to verify every CI run produces a native arm64 binary.
- macOS 26 Tahoe
- Xcode 26.5
Ad-hoc signing is the default — no Apple Developer account required.
- Open
Clipy.xcodeprojin Xcode. - Build the
Clipyscheme.
macOS checks Accessibility permission by code signature. Ad-hoc builds may prompt for Accessibility access again after each build. This is expected behaviour.
Clipy is looking for localization contributors.
If you can contribute, please see CONTRIBUTING.md
If you distribute derived work, especially in the Mac App Store, please follow two rules:
- Don't use
ClipyandClipMenuas your product name. - Follow the MIT license terms.
Clipy is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.
Icons are copyrighted by their respective authors.
Thank you for @naotaka who have published ClipMenu as OSS.
Based on the original Clipy project by the Clipy Project.