Buffer

A lightweight, beautiful clipboard manager for macOS

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✨ Why Buffer?

• Ultra-lightweight — Only ~2 MB download/install, minimal RAM/CPU usage
• 100% Private & Local — Everything stays on your Mac, no cloud, no tracking
• Text + Images + OCR — Copies anything; extracts searchable text from images/screenshots/memes using on-device Vision
• Great for developers — Handles large text snippets, JSON payloads, logs, and other verbose content with ease
• Large-content friendly — Lazy, chunked previews and disk-backed storage for multi‑MB text, with size indicators
• Pins & Smart History — Pin favorites, keep them anchored, and cycle history while prioritizing unpinned items
• Multi-select & multi‑paste — Select multiple items in history with clear on-screen instructions, paste them together, or bulk-delete with inline confirmation
• Bookmarks — Star important items with Cmd+B for quick reuse
• Tags & Filtering — Categorize history items with custom, color-coded tags. Quick tag items with Cmd+T and filter using # autocomplete in the search bar
• Configurable hotkeys — Change the global shortcut in Settings with dynamic re-registration
• Native macOS Feel — Clean SwiftUI + AppKit menu-bar app
• Seamless Updates — Built-in secure auto-updater with code signature verification and a native post-update HUD with a "What's New" link
• Open Source — MIT license, actively maintained

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📥 Download

 

1. Download the .dmg from the latest release
2. Drag Buffer.app to your Applications folder
3. Launch it (lives in menu bar)

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🛣️ Coming Next

• Multi‑paste support for quickly pasting multiple items in sequence
• Content Editing

🚀 Getting Started

1. Download the .dmg file from above
2. Drag Buffer to your Applications folder
3. Launch Buffer — it will appear in your menu bar
4. Copy anything — Buffer automatically saves it
5. Press ⇧⌘V to access your clipboard history anytime!

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🖥️ Screenshots

Beautiful split-pane interface with search and preview

Multi select & paste

Tags

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⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
⇧⌘V	Open clipboard history
↑ / ↓	Navigate items
⇧↑ / ⇧↓	Expand selection (Multi-select)
↵ Enter	Paste selected item
⌘C	Copy selected item text to clipboard
⌘P	Pin / unpin selected item
⌘B	Bookmark / unbookmark selected item
⌘T	Add tag to selected item
⌘S	Save image to disk (for image items)
⌘⌫	Delete selected item
⎋ Esc	Close history window

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🛠️ Building from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/samirpatil2000/Buffer.git
cd Buffer

# Open in Xcode
open Buffer.xcodeproj

# Build and run
# Press ⌘R in Xcode

Requirements

• macOS 13.0 or later
• Xcode 15.0 or later
• Swift 5.9

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Star History

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to:

• Report bugs
• Suggest features
• Submit pull requests

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📄 License

MIT License — feel free to use this project however you like.

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Made with ❤️ for macOS