Dm/comment with your game library screenshots, thanks !!
I built a free macOS clipboard manager focused on one thing other apps ignore — storing sensitive stuff locally with zero network access
Most clipboard managers are either paid, bloated, or sync your clipboard to the cloud. The cloud sync part always bothered me. Your clipboard holds API keys, tokens, DB connection strings, passwords that accidentally get copied — and most apps are casually uploading all of that somewhere.
So I built PeekBoard. Everything stays on your machine. SQLite database in your home folder, no network entitlements whatsoever — the app literally cannot make a network request.
The use case that made me build this:
You're jumping between environments — dev, staging, prod. Each has its own API key, DB URL, JWT secret. You copy one, use it, copy the next, now the first is gone. You go back to your .env file, copy it again. You do this 15 times a day.
With PeekBoard:
- Copy the API key once
- Pin it so it never gets pushed out of history
- Give it an alias — "sk-proj-xK9mN2..." becomes **"Staging API Key"**
- It's now permanently at the top of your clipboard, named, one click away
This works for anything you reach for repeatedly — terminal commands, boilerplate code, SQL queries, email templates, whatever.
Other stuff it does:
- Full clipboard history (text, URLs, code snippets, hex colours, images — all categorised automatically)
- You can alias and pin images too, not just text
- Fuzzy full-text search across everything you've ever copied
- Shows which app each entry came from (Xcode, Figma, Terminal etc.)
- Auto-skips password managers so those never get captured
- Keyboard-first — open with ⌥V, navigate with arrows, paste with Return. Mouse optional.
- Auto-paste via CGEventPost — click an entry and it's in your frontmost app, no ⌘V needed
Why it's different from Paste, Maccy, Raycast clipboard:
- Paste costs money and syncs to iCloud
- Maccy is solid but has no aliasing and limited pinning
- Raycast clipboard is great but requires Raycast as a dependency and also syncs
- PeekBoard: free, local-only, alias anything, MIT licensed
Built in Swift + SwiftUI. Ships as a .dmg. macOS 13 Ventura and later.
GitHub: https://github.com/SambhavSirohi05/PeekBoard
Happy to answer any questions. Still early so feedback on what's missing or broken or what more can be added to improve it are genuinely welcome.