veeboard

macOS Clipboard History

Veeboard is a minimal clipboard history utility for macOS. It tracks recent text copies (⌘C / ⌘X) and lets you quickly recall and reuse snippets via a small floating panel triggered by Command+Shift+V.

It’s lightweight, has no UI beyond the panel, and is built with Objective-C and Cocoa.

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Veeboard shows a floating panel of your recent copied snippets (you click on an item and it copies, click anywhere else and it goes away, yaaaaaay!).

Features

• Keeps a history of your last 10 plaintext snippets (configurable)
• Click to copy from a floating panel
• Auto updates clipboard on ⌘C or ⌘X
• Also polls the clipboard for any change (menus, mouse, drag-and-drop)
• Trigger panel with Command+Shift+V.
• Does not run in the dock or menu bar
• macOS native (no dependencies)

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Installation

1. Clone and build:

git clone https://github.com/MhrnMhrn/veeboard.git
cd veeboard
clang -fobjc-arc -framework Cocoa -framework ApplicationServices -o veeboard veeboard.m

2. Grant Accessibility access:

Open System Settings > Privacy & Security > Accessibility

Add the compiled veeboard binary to the list

Open System Settings > Privacy & Security > Input Monitoring

Allow Terminal.

3. Run:

./veeboard

You should see this log line:

veeboard started. Use Cmd-C/Cmd-X to record, Command+Shift+V to show.

Usage

• ⌘C / ⌘X — adds copied plain text to history

• Command+Shift+V — shows the panel of recent snippets

• Click a row — restores the item to your clipboard and closes the panel

Configuration

Edit these constants in the source:

static const int   kHistoryMax = 10;      // change to keep more snippets
static const float kPanelW     = 320.0;  // panel width
static const float kRowH       = 26.0;   // row height per entry

The app does not store clipboard history to disk — everything is in memory only.

License

MIT License

Credit

Made by Mehran Goudarzi and Mehrzad Sepahi, because macOS should have had this out of the box (jesuuuuus).