Clipboard History

How Superclip captures, stores, and organizes your clipboard history.

How It Works

Superclip monitors your system clipboard every 0.5 seconds. When it detects new content, it's automatically saved to your history. No manual action required — just copy as you normally would.

Supported Content Types

Superclip detects and stores several content types, checked in this order:

  1. Images — screenshots, copied images, image data
  2. Files — copied files and folders (single-image files are treated as images)
  3. URLs — web links with automatic metadata fetching (title, description, favicon)
  4. Plain text — any text content, including code snippets, numbers, and more

Rich text (RTF) formatting is also preserved when available.

History Limits

Superclip keeps up to 100 items in your clipboard history. When the limit is reached, the oldest item is removed to make room for new ones.

Deduplication

If you copy the same content twice, Superclip won't create a duplicate entry. Instead, the existing item is moved to the top of your history.

Source App Tracking

Each clipboard item shows which app it was copied from. This makes it easy to identify items when your history is full of similar-looking text snippets.

Search

With the drawer open, start typing to filter your history. Superclip uses fuzzy search with ranked results — it matches against content, source app name, type label, and file names. Results are sorted by relevance: exact matches first, then prefix, contains, and fuzzy subsequence matches. Press Esc to clear the search.

Smart Filters

Superclip automatically tags clipboard items by content type. A filter bar at the top of the drawer lets you narrow your history by category:

  • Links — URLs
  • Images — screenshots, copied images
  • Files — copied files and folders
  • Code — detected source code
  • Colors — hex (#ff0000), RGB (rgb(255, 0, 0)), and HSL values
  • Emails — email addresses
  • JSON — valid JSON objects and arrays
  • Phones — phone numbers

Color items also display a tint of the detected color on their card background.

Managing Items

  • Delete — select an item and press Backspace or Delete
  • Undo delete — press Cmd+Z within ~30 seconds to restore a deleted item
  • Copy — press Enter or click to copy an item back to your clipboard

Link Previews

When you copy a URL, Superclip automatically fetches the page title, description, and favicon. This makes links easy to identify in your history without having to remember bare URLs.