Recallyx

Free & open source · macOS 13+

Your clipboard,
programmable.

Recallyx keeps everything you copy — searchable, private, on your Mac — and lets you run script + AI pipelines on any clip. Native, and free.

Download for macOS View on GitHub

Latest release · Apple silicon · MIT license

The Recallyx history panel: a search field, a list of recent clips with app icons and timestamps, and a detail pane showing selected Swift code copied from IntelliJ IDEA.

Copy. Transform. Paste.

Hit ⌘⇧V, press ⇥ on any clip, and pick an action. The result pastes straight into the app you were in.

Recallyx panel showing a searchable clipboard history with a code clip selected and its full contents in the detail pane.
Search past clips, then run an action on the one you need.

What makes it different

Programmable

Chain bash and AI steps into a pipeline on any clip. A built-in dev pack handles JWT decode, base64, and JSON — or write your own script step.

  • OpenAI
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Ollama
  • Apple on-device
  • Custom endpoint

Everywhere

History syncs across your Macs through your own iCloud — no account of ours, no server, no subscription. An iPhone app is in testing.

  • Mac ↔ Mac today
  • iPhone in testing

Yours

History lives on disk, on your machine. Password fields are skipped, nothing is sent anywhere you didn't choose, and the whole thing is MIT-licensed.

  • No telemetry
  • Bring your own key
  • Or run fully local

The power-user hook

Every clip has an action menu.

Press ⇥ to open the actions for the highlighted clip: built-ins like Paste and Copy, your saved script and AI actions, or a one-off Custom… prompt. Press ⇥ again to edit a saved action before it runs — the saved version stays untouched.

There's also ⌃⇧V: grab the current selection in any app and transform it in place.

The Recallyx action menu: built-in actions Paste, Copy, and Delete, plus saved actions including Fix grammar (AI), Remove extra whitespace (script), Pretty-print JSON (script), and Summarize to 3 bullets (AI). Keyboard hints for select, run, edit, and back run along the bottom.

Install Recallyx

Apple silicon Mac on macOS 13 or later. No account, no sign-up.

  1. 1

    Download the disk image

    Grab the latest .dmg from GitHub Releases and drag Recallyx into Applications.

    Download the latest DMG
  2. 2

    Clear the quarantine flag

    Builds aren't notarized by Apple yet, so Gatekeeper blocks the first launch. This one command tells macOS the app is safe to open. Notarized builds are coming.

    xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Recallyx.app
  3. 3

    Launch it

    Recallyx lives in your menu bar. Press ⌘⇧V to open the history panel and you're set.

Prefer to build it yourself? Clone the repo and run ./scripts/bundle.sh — Swift Package Manager, zero dependencies, Command Line Tools only. Read the docs →