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Dictate instead of typing: press ⌥⇧D anywhere and start talking — the words stream into a popup by your cursor as you speak. Stop, and pick where the transcript goes: Copy, Save as Clip, Send to Notes, or Save as File…. It's Apple's on-device speech model, so your voice never leaves the Mac. Prefer a different key? Settings → Triggers → Shortcuts adds ⇧Space, ⌃Space, and ⌘Space to the usual choices, and warns you if the one you pick is already spoken for by macOS. If the speech model for your language isn't downloaded yet, the menu bar says so and offers Download Dictation Model….
Hold to talk: in Settings → Triggers → Shortcuts, switch the dictate shortcut to "Hold to talk, release to stop" — hold the key down while you speak and let go when you're done. A quick tap keeps recording instead of leaving you with a half-second of audio, so brushing the key can't cost you a sentence.
Let a dictation finish itself: Settings → Dictation can run an ordered set of steps the moment you stop talking — copy the transcript, paste it straight into whatever you were typing in, or send it through one of your custom actions first ("tidy up my rambling", "turn this into bullet points"), in any order you like. Off by default. If a step fails, the save chooser opens with your transcript — speech is never lost.
Teach dictation your vocabulary: Settings → Dictation keeps a personal dictionary — colleague names, product names, jargon, acronyms — that nudges the recognizer toward your spelling, plus replacement rules for the terms it gets wrong the same way every time ("heard" → "written"). Suggest from Clipboard History reads your recent clips and offers up the proper nouns you copy all day. It all stays on this Mac.
Chain actions into a workflow: Settings → Actions → Action Sequences lets you name an ordered run of the actions you already have — "strip the tracking parameters, then open it in the browser"; "pretty-print the JSON, then append it to my notes file". Each step feeds the next. Sequences appear in the copy popup alongside single actions, and an Automatic Action can run one for you. A step that fails stops the chain and leaves your copy untouched.
Actions that know what you're working on: turn on Give this action your working context and a custom action also sees your recent clips, the app you're in, and what you last pasted — so "continue this" picks up from your last result and "draft a reply" knows you're in Mail. Off for every existing action, and you turn it on one action at a time. Excluded apps are invisible to it, and paused history shares nothing.
Search history by meaning: turn it on in Settings → Clipboard History and the history search understands what you're looking for, not just the words you type — "wifi password" finds "WPA2 PSK: …", "the client's deadline" finds that email. Exact and fuzzy word matches still rank first, freshly copied clips get a nudge up, and everything runs on an Apple on-device model — nothing ever leaves your Mac.
Find a screenshot by what it says: the text inside an image is read the moment you copy it, so a screenshot turns up when you search for words you can see in it — in both plain and meaning-based search. Images you copied before this update get read on the next launch.
History that organizes itself: the picker's new Groups view (⌘⇧G, or the Groups pill) gathers related clips under collapsible titles — links by site, emails by domain, images together, and text clips that keep mentioning the same thing. Groups start collapsed to their newest clip, so ↩ still pastes in one keystroke; → and ← open and close them, searching opens them all, and pinned clips stay on top.
Pick up where a result left off: any clip Pickclip produced now offers Continue — press ⇧↩ on it in the history picker (or pick Continue from its actions) and type a follow-up like "shorter" or "now in Spanish". The next run knows what produced the clip, so it refines the result instead of starting over.
The history picker's modes are easier to find: Groups, Prompt, and Stack now lead the filter bar instead of hiding behind the content filters, each in its own color so they stand apart from them — and they stay put when the filter row scrolls.
Pause history recording: a new menu-bar item suspends clipboard history — like private browsing, copies keep working but aren't remembered. Pause for 10 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour (recording resumes by itself), or until you turn it back on. While paused, the menu-bar icon dims and shows a pause mark so you always know.
Decide how long the popup waits: Settings → Triggers → "Popup stays up for" — 1 to 10 seconds, instead of the fixed 2.5. Hovering it or using the arrow keys still keeps it open.
AI Tools (MCP): a connected assistant can now run one of your actions on a clip and put text on your clipboard, not just read your history. Actions that need a language choice, or that deliver somewhere themselves, are declined with a reason.
Fixes: links copied without any plain text — Safari's address-bar Copy, "Copy Link" — were silently dropped from history and from the iPhone hand-off; they're kept now. Copies made on your iPhone also reach Mac history without turning iPhone hand-off on.
iPhone sync: two opt-in ways to move text and action results between your Mac and iPhone, with nothing to install on the phone. A Universal Clipboard hand-off runs your chosen action on text copied on the phone, and a shared iCloud Drive folder ("Pickclip" in the Files app) carries results back and forth with Send to Mac and From Mac. Set up in Settings → iPhone Sync. Your clipboard history never leaves the Mac.
Keep history by content type: Settings → Clipboard History gains a "Keep by content type" list — links, code, images, and every other kind of clip can keep its own retention (Forever, 1 month, 1 week, 1 day, or Don't keep). The history popup also adds Code and ID filter chips.
"Copy Image" from the web now works: images copied in Safari and other web views were mistaken for text and got text actions; they now show image actions, and JPEG/HEIC copies are accepted too.
A faster history popup and assorted fixes from a full-codebase review.
Reorder your custom actions: drag any action in Settings → Custom Actions to put a favorite on top — or right-click to move it up, down, or to the very top. This order is the order they appear in the copy popup.
Send a result to Apple Maps: a custom action can now open its result as a place or address in the Maps app. Pick Maps under Send the result to, or just describe a maps or directions action and Pickclip sets it up for you.
Browse the action gallery: a new Browse Gallery button in Settings → Custom Actions opens a growing collection of ready-made actions you can add in a click.
AI Tools (MCP): connect your clipboard to Claude Desktop and other MCP clients with a one-click extension. Your AI assistant can search what you've copied, pull up a past clip, and create or edit custom actions for you — all on your Mac. Off by default; turn it on in Settings → AI Tools.
Interface polish: smoother dialogs, animations, and focus handling throughout the app.
A much faster clipboard history: opening the picker and stepping through your clips is smooth now, even with a long history full of big clips like long code or JSON. The lag when arrowing up and down the list is gone.
Search keeps up with your typing: characters show the instant you type them, and the list filters without the stutter you'd hit on a large history.
Send action results to the Reminders app: a custom action can now add its result to Reminders — one reminder per line. Pick Reminders under Send the result to when you create or edit an action (Settings → Custom Actions); macOS asks for Reminders access the first time you use it.
Action results show up in your history: anything a Pickclip action produces is now saved to clipboard history, so you can grab an earlier result from the picker (⌘⇧V) like any other clip.
Delete a clip with ⌘D: in the history picker, press ⌘D to remove the highlighted clip — whether or not you've typed a search.
One-key paste shortcuts: pin a clip in the history picker and give it a single letter or number. From then on, press ⇥ (Tab) and that key to paste it instantly — no scrolling. Assign a key right after you pin a clip (⌘P), or in the history manager.
Send action results beyond the clipboard: a custom action can now save its result to a new file in a folder of your choice, append it to a running file (a daily log, a running notes file…), or hand it to a note app — pick where under Send the result to when you create or edit the action (Settings → Custom Actions).
Ask about what you just copied: after copying, press ⌘P (or choose Prompt…) to type an instruction — "summarize this", "translate to French", "what's the capital of Idaho?" — and Pickclip runs it on the copied text. The same on-the-fly prompting the history picker offers, now right where you copy.
Type "/pick" to open history: turn on the new trigger (Settings → Triggers), and typing /pick in any text field opens clipboard history — the "/pick" is removed and the clip you choose is pasted in its place. (Experimental; requires Accessibility.)
Smarter history keyboard navigation: the picker now starts on your newest unpinned clip. Press ↓ to move down through your clips, and ↑ to step up into your pinned ones.
Build a paste stack: in the history picker (⌘⇧V), select the Stack pill — or press ⌘⇧S — then hit ↩ to add clips in any order you like. Press ⌘↩ to paste them all at once, one per line. Want to transform them first? Press ⌘K to run a single action (translate, fix, one of your own custom actions…) on every clip and paste the results together.
Choose your copy shortcut: just like the clipboard-history shortcut, you can now pick which key pops the actions menu when you copy — ⌘C, ⌥C, ⌃C, or off (Settings → Triggers). Choose ⌥C and ⌘C goes back to being an ordinary copy.
A friendlier welcome tour: it now walks through clipboard history and screenshots, lets you create your first custom action right on the spot, and ends with a quick setup page to pick your copy and paste shortcuts.
Default actions apply when you paste from history: set an Automatic Action for a type (say, Rich Text), and pressing ↩ on a clip of that type in the history picker runs it and pastes the result. ⌘↩ pastes the raw text instead.
Drive clipboard history from the keyboard: open it (⌘V, or your history shortcut) and use ↑/↓ to move, ↩ to paste, ⌘↩ to paste as plain text, and ⌫ to delete the selected clip. Tap Shift to open the actions menu for the highlighted clip, and ←/→ to switch the type filter — all without the mouse. The window now stays put the moment you start navigating.
Prompt a clip on the fly: the history picker has a new Prompt pill. Select it, type any instruction — "summarize this", "translate to French", "what's the capital of Idaho?" — and Pickclip runs it on the highlighted clip and pastes back a short, to-the-point answer.
Keyboard control of the actions popup: when the popup appears after you copy, use ↑/↓ to highlight an action and ↩ to run it. Your cursor never leaves whatever you were typing in.
Share your custom actions: every custom action now has a Share menu (Settings → Custom Actions) — copy a link anyone can open, copy it as text to paste into a chat, or save it as a file. Send it to a friend: if they have Pickclip, the action opens straight to a review screen; if they don't, the link shows them what it does and offers a download. Imported actions never install on their own, and a shared script is re-checked against Pickclip's safety rules before you can save it.
Filter your history by type: the clipboard history and the History Manager now show filter chips — All, Link, Image, Email, Text, and more — so you can narrow a long history down to just the links, or just the images, in one click. Chips appear only for the kinds of things you've actually copied.
Link previews, on demand: for a copied link, press Preview in the history window (or Fetch link preview in the History Manager) to pull in the page's title, icon, and description. Nothing is fetched until you ask — Pickclip never reaches out to your links on its own.
Clipboard history: Pickclip now remembers what you copy. Press ⌘⇧V to open a searchable history window, then pick a clip to paste it back where you were. Pin the ones you reuse; the rest age out on their own. Passwords and copies from apps you've excluded are never stored.
Run an action on any past clip: every item in history has an Actions menu — Translate, Fix, Clean Link, or any of your custom actions — applied to a clip you copied earlier. The result pastes right back into your app.
Paste from history on ⌘V (optional): turn it on in Settings → Triggers, and pressing ⌘V opens your clipboard history to pick from instead of pasting straight away. Press ⌘V again, or Esc, to paste normally.
Triggers, reorganized: the copy and paste behaviors are now two independent switches — show the actions popup when you copy, and/or open clipboard history when you press ⌘V. The old, unused "actions on paste" mode is gone.
Automatic Actions can ask first: for any rule, turn on "Always show actions first" to glimpse the menu (with your action pre-selected) for a moment before it runs — pick something else, or let it go.
Paste in the destination's style: copying rich text (from a web page, Word, an email…) now offers a Plain Text action that strips the formatting — fonts, sizes, and colors. Paste it anywhere and the text takes on the destination document's style instead of carrying the source's along.
Clean Link: copying a link that carries tracking parameters (utm_…, fbclid, the `si` on YouTube and Spotify share links…) now offers a one-click action that strips them. The cleaned link is copied and previewed, ready to share.
Automatic actions: in Settings, tell Pickclip to run an action the moment you copy a certain kind of text — clean every copied link, convert every copied timestamp, strip formatting from every rich-text copy. No popup click needed; the popup shows what ran, and Restore Original Copy undoes it in one click if a rule fires when you didn't want it.
Results that are tables look like tables: when an expanded result is tab- or comma-separated (an extracted table, a CSV from one of your actions), the popup renders a real grid — header row, right-aligned numbers — and opens at the table's natural width. The clipboard still carries the raw text for pasting into spreadsheets.
Resizable result popup: once you expand a result to read it, drag the popup's left or right edge to make it wider — long lines and extracted tables get room to breathe. It snaps back to normal for the next popup.
Extract Text understands tables: extracting text from a screenshot of a table now keeps the rows and columns — the result is tab-separated, so pasting into Numbers, Excel, or Google Sheets recreates the table. Headings and paragraphs around the table stay in reading order.
Fixed: the action list shown by "Run an action on this…" disappeared after 2.5 seconds — it now stays for 12, and never disappears while your cursor is over it.
Automatic update checks: Pickclip now quietly looks for new versions shortly after launch and about every 8 hours — you only hear about it when an update is ready. Turn it off in Settings → Support if you'd rather check manually.
Check for Updates in the menu: the menu bar menu has a direct "Check for Updates…" item again, alongside the one in Settings.
Color previews: Analyze Colors now shows each color as a circular swatch next to its hex and RGB values, laid out in a neat aligned table — click the swatch row on a result to see it.
Image Stats: a new action for screenshots and copied images measures size, brightness, contrast, saturation, dominant hue, warmth, and transparency — handy for checking if an image reads light or dark, warm or cool. Custom actions can chain on it too ("Run on: Screenshot — image stats").
Analyze Colors: screenshots and copied images can now be analyzed for their dominant colors — hex and RGB values with coverage percentages, copied straight to your clipboard.
Action chains for screenshots: custom actions can run on a screenshot's extracted text or color values ("translate the text in this image", "what is this color?"). Set "Run on" when creating an action, or pick "Run an action on this…" right from a result.
The welcome tour now shows your actual trial status instead of always saying the trial starts today.
Fixed: the "saved" confirmation after filing a screenshot could get stuck on screen when the cursor rested on it.
Share custom actions: every custom action now has a share button — send it as a small file or a one-line text code. Installing is one copy away: copy a shared action and Pickclip offers to install it, showing you exactly what it does before anything is saved.
Import shared actions from Settings → Custom Actions → Import…, or just double-click a .pickclipaction file.
Settings stays tidy: long Custom Actions and Excluded Apps lists collapse to a preview with Show All.
Auto-updates now work — this and future versions update themselves from the official download site.
First public beta: AI actions for anything you copy — Fix, Organize, and Translate, plus your own custom actions with scripts, smart actions, and destinations (Notes, TextEdit, browsers, Shortcuts).
Screenshots: capture with ⌘⇧7, extract text from any image, save to a folder by typing its name.
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