Collective

Meet Collective. Clipboard history for your Mac. Done right. Fully compatible with macOS Sierra (10.12), as well as OS X El Capitan (10.11) and Yosemite (10.10).

"Attractive, lightweight clipboard utility gets the details right." - Macworld, four "mice".

Nearly anything you can copy, Collective will remember: Text, images, PDFs, movies, URLs, appointments, files: Collective keeps track of whatever you copy.

With a simple key combination (Command-Shift-V) Collective appears, allowing you to add nearly anything you previously copied back to the clipboard to be pasted, exactly as you copied it.

Powerful. Precise. Attractive. Everything you expect from a Mac App. Chosen by Apple as "New & Noteworthy" on the Mac App Store.

"Apps We Actually Use ... a must-have for any Mac user looking for quick and easy access to their clipboard history." - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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Collectives Features

• Appears on command (Command-Shift-V), or can be pinned open so your clipboard history is always available
• Supports nearly anything you can copy: text, images, PDFs, movies, URLs, appointments, files
• Remembers all formatting, so you can paste an item exactly as you copied it
• Favorites, so your most used clippings are quickly available
• Automatic Shortcuts, to quickly add your favorites back to the clipboard
• Details bar, to show you line counts, character counts, image dimensions, and file sizes
• Application blacklisting, to avoid copying data from sensitive applications such as password managers
• A powerful search with application filtering, to quickly find and paste previously copied items
• Quick Look, for full-size previews
• Automatic saves, so your clipboard history is available after restarts
• Automatically launch when you log in
• Fully controllable by keyboard or mouse, and supports drag and drop
• Works alongside applications in Full Screen mode, including the ability to appear on a second monitor
• Accessible, with arbitrarily resizable text and Voice Over support

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How to Use Collective

When Collective is running, a "C" will appear in the top-right of your menu bar. Pressing Command-Shift-V will show Collectives history of what you have copied (alternatively, you can click the "C" in the menu bar). Clicking on any item will add it back to your clipboard, so you can paste it again.

Note that for security reasons Collective is not able to paste directly, but rather your selected item is added back to the clipboard for you to paste. Further, due to a limitation with internal clipboards, Collective can not keep a full history for Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.). Collective can, however, be used to paste into these applications.