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NanoClip changelog

New features, improvements, and fixes for NanoClip on Mac.

Latest release

v1.7.5

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What's New in 1.7.5

  • Keep pinned clips out of All by default, with a setting to restore the previous behavior.
  • Double-click clips, snippets, or flows to use them just like pressing Return.
  • Press ⌘← in Flows to return to Clipboard.
  • Exclude individual files or entire folders from clipboard history.
  • Wrap Flow text with a custom prefix and suffix—for example, <blockquote> and </blockquote>.

What's New in 1.7.4

  • Added native Quick Look previews for image clips — select an image and press Space.
  • Clipboard and snippet cells can now be selected with the mouse, without pasting or closing NanoClip.
  • Refined the glass command bar so content flows naturally beneath it while the final list and preview content remains reachable.
  • Improved Universal Clipboard capture reliability for delayed remote clipboard transfers.
  • Improved Flows with mouse selection, visual drag-and-drop step reordering, and easier step insertion.

What's New in 1.7.3

  • NanoClip for iOS is now available to download for free.
  • Improved VoiceOver navigation across Clips, Flows, and Snippets.
  • Fixed previews for whitespace-only clipboard content.

What's New in 1.7.2

  • This update improves search reliability, picker behavior, and settings persistence.
  • Search now scans your complete clipboard history, including full URLs and file paths.
  • The picker now opens on the display you’re currently using.
  • Plain numbers are no longer incorrectly identified as phone numbers.
  • Ignored and obfuscated app settings now save and load reliably.
  • Search mode now hides the tab selector for a cleaner layout.
  • Refined the picker footer with a lighter, native glass appearance.

What's New in 1.7.0

  • Copy Stack lets you merge multiple text clips with ⌘C and paste them together with Return.
  • Choose whether Copy Stack items are separated by a space, new line, or nothing.
  • Optionally show the live Copy Stack result at the top of Clipboard History.
  • Press ⌘⇧Delete to clear your entire clipboard history after confirmation.
  • Press ⌘W to close NanoClip.
  • Search fields now support native macOS selection shortcuts such as ⌘A and ⌘⇧Arrow.
  • Deleting an item keeps the side preview open and focuses the next item.
  • Text edited with ⌘E now updates immediately.
  • Fixed Ignored Apps sometimes disappearing after navigating elsewhere in Settings.

What's New in 1.6.1

  • Added a searchable emoji picker with categories, recent emoji, favorites, skin-tone variants, and a Control-Command-E shortcut.
  • The picker can now be freely moved and resized, snaps to useful screen positions, and remembers its size and location.
  • Added horizontal tag filters to Snippets while preserving full keyboard navigation.
  • Added an option to keep the side-panel preview open and fixed picker settings not persisting after quitting.
  • Refined Liquid Glass and theme backgrounds with native materials and optional tinted vibrancy.
  • Improved first-sync reliability with the NanoClip iOS companion.
  • Global shortcuts now follow the active keyboard layout, including Turkish F Extended.
  • Fixed empty-category layouts, unsupported emoji rendering, skin-tone sequences, and several picker resizing issues.
  • Added user information about what’s new.

What's New in 1.6.0

  • Added a searchable emoji picker with categories, recent emoji, favorites, skin-tone variants, and a Control-Command-E shortcut.
  • The picker can now be freely moved and resized, snaps to useful screen positions, and remembers its size and location.
  • Added horizontal tag filters to Snippets while preserving full keyboard navigation.
  • Added an option to keep the side-panel preview open and fixed picker settings not persisting after quitting.
  • Refined Liquid Glass and theme backgrounds with native materials and optional tinted vibrancy.
  • Improved first-sync reliability with the NanoClip iOS companion.
  • Global shortcuts now follow the active keyboard layout, including Turkish F Extended.
  • Fixed empty-category layouts, unsupported emoji rendering, skin-tone sequences, and several picker resizing issues.

What's New in 1.5.0

  • iOS beta sync: NanoClip 1.5 is required for the iOS companion to sync. Remember to enable iCloud Sync in Settings on your Mac.
  • Added a Settings link to join the NanoClip iOS TestFlight beta.
  • Added custom date-format snippet presets, including formats such as {date format="yyyyMMdd"}.
  • Added typed snippet arguments, including number-aware input and remembered recent values.
  • Made Strip Formatting safe for plain text while continuing to convert rich text.
  • Improved Mac clipboard image presentation with square thumbnails and cleaner side-panel rendering.
  • Fixed Flow Results windows appearing without a background on Liquid Glass themes.
  • Fixed long-list performance and side-panel clipping.
  • Fixed Mac license credentials sometimes needing to be entered again after an update or temporary network failure.
  • Fixed placeholder diagnostics and unresolved tokens appearing in pasted output.
  • Rebuilt clipboard and snippet sync around per-item CloudKit records for more reliable merging and pinned-first ordering.

What's New in 1.4.2

  • Fixed clipboard copies being silently dropped when copying quickly from Excel and other Office apps.
  • Fixed newly copied items sometimes appearing further down the list instead of at the top.
  • Fixed clipboard items occasionally flickering in and out of the list while iCloud sync was on.
  • Fixed Pro licenses being reset to free after an app update.
  • Quick actions now only appear when they're actually useful for what you copied (no more suggestions on passwords, tokens, or IDs).
  • Added a setting to hide quick actions entirely (Settings → Picker).

What's New in 1.4.0

  • NanoClip now includes contextual Quick Actions in the picker for text, links, colors, JSON, and images.
  • Quick Actions can be run instantly from the keyboard with Option+number shortcuts.
  • Image Quick Actions include OCR, Compress, Resize, Convert to PNG, and Describe.
  • AI Quick Actions now appear when relevant and clearly show when Apple Intelligence or NanoClip Pro AI is required.
  • Quick Action results now open in a redesigned results panel with cleaner layout and better output readability.

What's New in 1.3.0

  • Added Smart Clip Categories in the Clipboard picker: All, Pinned, Links, Images, Files, Colors, Code, Secrets, and AI.
  • Added keyboard category cycling with ⌘[ / ⌘].
  • Cleaned up the bottom picker bar so it focuses on current-item actions.
  • Fixed Preview Style persistence so Side panel stays selected after quitting and reopening NanoClip.

What's New in 1.2.0

  • New AI image flows are here: You can now use NanoClip flows to generate images from text prompts, edit images you copied with a prompt, upscale images, and describe images as text. Image results can be copied or pasted back into other apps just like the rest of your clipboard workflow.
  • This update also adds image model settings for supported providers, so you can choose which provider and model NanoClip uses for generation, editing, upscaling, and image description.

What's New in 1.1.8

  • Fixes memory issues and slow response that appear when Nanoclip is left open for long time

What's New in 1.1.7

  • Fixed major picker performance regressions that made scrolling feel janky, especially in long lists.
  • Reduced expensive per-row work in clipboard history by improving caching.
  • Fixed Snippets keyboard navigation when snippets are grouped by tag. Up/down selection now follows the same order shown visually.
  • Fixed Flows preview behavior so the “Side Panel” preview setting is respected.

What's New in 1.1.6

  • NanoClip's picker window now appears immediately when you invoke it.
  • Added a Picker setting to turn open and close animations on or off.

What's New in 1.1.4

  • Removed the unclear Clean Text starter flow.
  • Added Clean URL to remove common tracking parameters from links.
  • Added URL to QR Code to generate a QR image from a copied URL.
  • Kept Fix Spelling as its own separate flow.
  • Added flow descriptions so users can understand what each flow does.
  • Added expandable flow rows showing the description and each step.

What's New in 1.1.3

  • This release adds better organization for snippets and makes Flows more useful for real-world file workflows.
  • Snippets can now be tagged with #tags.
  • The Snippets view can group items by tag, enabled by default when tagged snippets exist.
  • Snippets without tags stay unsectioned until you start using tags.
  • Flows can now run on multiple compatible items at once.
  • Use Cmd + Return while choosing flow input to select multiple clipboard items, then Return to run the flow.
  • File-based flows can now receive multiple selected files, making workflows like compressing several images much faster.
  • Flow results now make image/file outputs clearer, including better previews and clipboard behavior for batch outputs.

What's New in 1.1.2

  • This update polishes the new Flows release and fixes a few rough edges from 1.1.1.
  • Added Flow usage stats in the Stats tab, including total runs, runs today, success rate, and top-used flows.
  • Added an Open Flows Guide button in Flow settings.
  • Added a Feature Request menu item that opens the NanoApps feedback board.
  • Improved snippet expansion reliability by tightening Input Monitoring registration.
  • Improved selected row icon contrast for snippets and flows across themes.

What's New in 1.1.1

  • Introducing Flows!
  • 30 built-in blocks and 30 ready-to-run starter flows, free out of the box
  • Step-by-step results viewer with streaming output
  • Apple Intelligence free on-device; Ollama and cloud AI with Pro
  • Per-flow shortcuts and run flows on Finder files

What's New in 1.1.0

Meet Flows — turn your clipboard into a one-keystroke automation tool.

  • Flows run multi-step actions on anything you copy — clean it, convert it, summarize it, or transform it, all without leaving the keyboard.
  • 30 built-in blocks across text, URLs, images, and AI, plus 30 starter flows that work the moment you install — free.
  • Live results viewer streams each step as it runs, so you see exactly what happened and can grab the output at any stage.
  • Your AI, your choice — Apple Intelligence runs free and on-device; bring Ollama or cloud models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) with Pro.
  • A shortcut for every flow — trigger any flow with its own global hotkey, or run one straight on files selected in Finder.
  • Plus a faster, searchable block picker and fixes for snippet auto-expansion, onboarding permissions, and image resizing.

What's New in 1.0.8

    • Fixed snippet export so “Export All” works correctly and saves as JSON.
    • Fixed the menu item count so it respects your configured history limit.
    • Improved snippet expansion: keywords now respect word boundaries by default, so "do" won’t expand inside words like "redo".
    • Added a new Snippets setting, “Expand at end of words”, for users who prefer the previous suffix-matching behavior.

What's New in 1.0.5

  • New settings option -> Side panel previews for expanded clipboard items and snippets
  • Added snippet import and export support, including NanoClip JSON, Alfred, and Raycast formats
  • Bug fixes and improvements
  • Free mode now previews the full current clipboard history, with locked items greyed out and the top 5 still interactive
  • Smoothed expand and collapse window animations

What's New in 1.0.3

  • Bug fixes and improvements
    • Fixed the picker visuals for transparent themes by removing the bad square outer stroke/shadow effect and improving the shortcuts companion panel background behavior.
    • Clipboard items now move back to the top after paste, so the most recently pasted item becomes the first item in history again.
    • Added a new free Clean theme with solid light/dark backgrounds for better readability.

What's New in 1.0.2

  • Bug fixes and improvements
    • Polished DMG installer with drag-to-Applications layout
    • Fixed Cmd+H obfuscation not updating the list in real time
    • Fixed Cmd+Enter not copying snippet to clipboard in argument form
    • Fixed selection highlight getting lost when navigating with arrow keys
    • Fixed pinned items appearing under time group headers (Today, Yesterday, etc.)
    • Fixed unpinned items appearing in wrong time group order
    • App Store build now allows redeeming Polar.sh license keys

What's New in 1.0.1

  • NanoClip is a fast, lightweight clipboard manager that lives in your menu bar. Press Cmd+Option+V to instantly access everything you've ever copied — text, images, links, files, code, and colors.
  • CLIPBOARD HISTORY
  • Every copy is saved automatically. Search through your history instantly by typing, scroll back through time-grouped entries, and paste anything with a keystroke. Pin important items so they're always at the top.
  • SMART SNIPPETS
  • Save reusable text templates with dynamic placeholders. Create a snippet, assign a keyword like //sig, and type it in any app — it expands instantly. Snippets support custom arguments that you fill in before pasting.
  • EDIT IN PLACE
  • Press Cmd+E to edit any clipboard item inline. Fix a typo, tweak a URL, update a value — then paste the modified version. Your edits are saved to history.
  • SEQUENTIAL PASTE
  • Queue up multiple items and paste them one by one in order. Perfect for filling out forms, transferring data between apps, or batch-pasting a list of values.
  • RICH LINK PREVIEWS
  • Copied URLs automatically show titles, favicons, and preview images. Even works with bot-protected sites.
  • PERSONAL STATS
  • Track your clipboard habits with daily streaks, busiest hours, top apps, and content type breakdowns. See how you use your clipboard — visualized.
  • 19 THEMES & 14 FONTS
  • Choose from Catppuccin, Nord, Dracula, Tokyo Night, Cyberpunk, Synthwave '84, Liquid Glass, and more. Pick your favorite font — Inter, JetBrains Mono, Sora, and 11 others.
  • iCLOUD SYNC
  • Your clipboard history and snippets sync across all your Macs via iCloud. No accounts, no servers, no setup.
  • PRIVACY FIRST
  • Content obfuscation hides sensitive items like passwords and API keys. All data stays on your device (or your iCloud). We never see your clipboard.
  • KEYBOARD-FIRST DESIGN
  • Navigate, search, expand, edit, pin, queue, and paste — all without touching your mouse. Every action has a keyboard shortcut.
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