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Clipboard

Clipboard

A history of everything you copy, kept where you can find it again. These pages cover the clipboard strip, search, pinboards, snippets, transforms, privacy controls and syncing between your Macs.

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The clipboard stripNew in Goblin 1.1Goblin keeps what you copy and brings it back from a strip at the bottom of the screen. What it keeps, every kind of card, pasting, editing and every key.Searching your clipboardNew in Goblin 1.1Find any clip by typing, by filter chips, or with typed search terms like app:safari or after:monday, and save a search as a smart pinboard that fills itself.Pinboards and the TrashNew in Goblin 1.1Keep the clips you need again in named, colored pinboards that never expire, get deleted clips back from the Trash, and choose how long History is kept.The Clipboard page and tabNew in Goblin 1.1Browse your clipboard in Goblin's window with a sidebar, a resizable grid and an inspector, or paste from a compact list in the menu bar panel's Clipboard tab.Snippets and templatesNew in Goblin 1.1Turn a clip into a template with fill-in fields, give it a short trigger, and type that trigger in any app to paste the clip in its place.Copy Queue, Quick Paste and other paste toolsNew in Goblin 1.1Collect several copies and paste them in order with the Copy Queue, paste by number, combine clips, float a clip on top, and capture colors and screenshots.Transforms and color formatsNew in Goblin 1.1Change a clip's case, tidy its lines, format JSON, strip tracking from links, encode, escape or extract text, and copy colors as hex, rgb(), oklch(), SwiftUI and more.Clipboard privacyNew in Goblin 1.1What the clipboard never keeps, how passwords and codes are kept briefly, per-app rules, encrypting history, presentation mode, and exactly what leaves your Mac.Locked pinboardsNew in Goblin 1.1Lock a pinboard with Touch ID so its clips are encrypted and hidden until you open it, and see what the goblin command, AI assistants, Shortcuts and sync can reach.Manage shared pinboards with the GoblinComing in the next updateAsk the Goblin to check who can open a shared pinboard, start an invitation, change access, remove someone, stop sharing or leave one, with a review you confirm first.Apple Intelligence and suggestionsNew in Goblin 1.1On-device descriptions, plain-language search, writing actions and paste suggestions, and how Allow Screen Access lets suggestions use the window you're pasting into.Syncing clips between MacsNew in Goblin 1.1Keep your clipboard history and pinboards the same on every Mac through iCloud, end-to-end encrypted, and share pinboards with other people.Importing and exporting pinboardsNew in Goblin 1.1Bring your pinboards and history over from another clipboard manager, and export pinboards to a folder of ordinary files you can keep, share or read back in.Clipboard settingsNew in Goblin 1.1Every control in Settings › Clipboard, top to bottom, with its default, from the main switch and sounds to shortcuts, privacy and snippets.