The whole idea in one shot: the history appears as a small candidate-window bubble anchored to the cursor, not off in a panel.

Reclips is a native Mac clipboard manager with one strong idea: hit a hotkey and your copy history appears as a small bubble right above the text caret — the way an input-method candidate window does — so you pick with the arrow keys and paste in place without your eyes or hands ever leaving where you’re typing.

Most clipboard managers put their history somewhere you have to go look: a menu-bar dropdown, a panel pinned to a screen edge, a full-screen overlay. Reclips puts it where you already are. Press ⌃V and the last things you copied stack up in a little popup anchored to the blinking cursor; arrow to the one you want, press return, and it drops in exactly there. It’s a small relocation with an outsized effect on flow, because pasting from history stops being a detour and becomes part of the same keystroke rhythm as typing.

The trick holds up across the places you actually work — Terminal, native editors, browsers like Safari and Chrome, and even Electron apps like VS Code and Slack — by reading the on-screen caret position through Accessibility. Each clip also carries type-aware inline actions: open a URL, convert it to a Markdown link, copy a color code, preview an image, shown inline or as a side submenu. Four looks (Default, Aqua Glass, Classic, and Retro) let the popup blend into whatever you’re in, and it auto-detects and works across ten languages.

For something that watches everything you copy, the privacy posture is reassuringly boring: history is encrypted on disk, never uploaded, and tied to no account, and — the detail that matters — passwords copied from password managers are never captured at all. Its one permission, Accessibility, exists only to locate the caret and paste the chosen clip; nothing is phoned home.

It runs on macOS 13 Ventura or later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel, as a native app you download directly. The commercial terms are almost startlingly modest — a 7-day free trial, then a one-time $4.99 “Lifetime” license with future updates included and a 7-day refund window. For under five dollars, it rethinks an interaction most clipboard managers had long since stopped questioning.